• php

    Posted on November 3rd, 2008

    Written by Jose (Jossi) Fresco Benaim

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    Sphider and .htaccess protection

    Sphider and .htaccess protection

    Sphider, the open source PHP spider (aka Web crawler) and search engine, uses the fsockopen() function to get files that are spidered. This means that if the site you are spidering is protected via .htaccess or the Apache directive to protect realms, Sphider will return a “401 unreachable” error when attempting to fetch files during [...]

  • media

    Posted on November 3rd, 2008

    Written by Jose (Jossi) Fresco Benaim

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    Permission Marketing, Ideavirus, and Tribes

    Permission Marketing, Ideavirus, and Tribes

    From Seth Godin’s blog:

    Mass marketing created an angry, selfish beast, a hungry one, one that demanded to be fed. So marketers fed it, they fed it with any ads they could find. And when they couldn’t find ads, they spammed us. All in the name of commerce, all because they’re doing their job.

    Things have changed, far more dramatically than most people realize. Not just what marketers buy, but what the media does all day, and what marketers build, and what we get paid to do and what and where we pay attention…