My Quest For No - No Follows: Pownce

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Ever since the no follow tag was created there has been a constant debate over whether or not it actually works. I am going to have to say it does, or at least weakens the link. So, with so many sites using no follows, blogs, forums, comments, etc… it’s now becoming harder and harder to get a clean link. This has led me on a search for no follow free sites.

I personally don’t like using a site just for links, minus a directory where that is what it is for. I’d rather obtain the link naturally and get the most out of it. One of the first sites was discovered with the help of Snoop Bloggy Blog. We found that on the site Pownce all links sent to friends or public had clean links.

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Stumble Upon Passwords

StumbleUpon is on pretty much on everyone’s tool bar. We all use it, and many of us are addicted. But it seems that StumbleUpon’s greatness doesn’t come with out some major flaws. I am not talking about its usability, I am talking about security. Passwords on StumbleUpon are far from secure. With a simple spyware program, a spammer could be using your account without you even knowing it. Well they might not be now, but they soon will once they catch wind of this gapping hole.

Here is the security hole that a friend of mine found, ( I wish I could take credit for finding this) as we were trying to figure out how StumbleUpon works. He found that if your logged in on StumbleUpon and you start viewing other users profiles, your password is sitting right there in the source code. That’s right. Your secure password is viewable as plain as day.

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To New Beginnings

Let’s face it, this site hasn’t been better than anything lately. I rarely post and when I do it’s a bad youtube clip or some random post. So here is the deal, I am going to start posting again. I am going to use the blog as a personal website, where I will talk about both business and humor related activities.

Start checking in to get a feel of the new site and tell me what you think.

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