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Tracking Social Media and Web Mentions
Back in March, we talked about a rapid prototyping project we’ve been working on. FoggerMap is a mapping and tracking device that integrates with mosquito foggers used to spray municipalities. As such, we’d like to be alerted to certain terms that pop up on the web and on social media. Alerts on the web in general are easy! Alerts on other platforms? Not so much.
Audit Your Social Media (for Business)
This week we performed an internal audit of our social media presence, as we do occasionally. By far, Facebook and Twitter send the most visitors to our website, and Pinterest is limping along. It makes sense, because Twitter is the perfect medium for tech news, and many of its subject-matter experts (SMEs, in the biz-speak) interact prolifically on Twitter. Facebook is still a hub for plenty of business activity, though goodness knows its algorithms have made it difficult to get a spot in your customers’ timelines. Google+, on the other hand, has sent a whole SEVEN visits to our website since we started tracking analytics.
Password Managers: Spotlight on Consumer and Enterprise Solutions
In a rare moment of consensus, security experts agree that password managers are the best way to keep accounts secure. Back in 2015, we posted about best practices of security experts, and at the time 75% used a password management tool. In the almost exactly two years since we made that post, our recommendations have changed. LastPass was hacked shortly before we published our 2015 post, and now history is repeating itself. A security researcher at Google discovered a “major architectural problem” within LastPass that could allow hackers to steal passwords. But before we get into those recommendations, it might help to talk about what a password manager is and how it works.
