When to expect this update? Most RF Web Studio clients will get an upgrade in the next week. You will know your site is upgraded when the yellow bar saying “WordPress 2.6 is available! Please update now.” is no longer on the top of your admin pages.

The biggest thing though that I have found is that Google and other search engines index your Twitter Feed. So using relevant key phrases in your Tweets is a good way to get some search engine exposure. Try searching for “Twitter ‘your name’ ” or “Twitter hillary clinton” in your favorite search engine. They are indexed in some way shape of form.

Is Twitter worth the time? I know I don’t wake up and think “hey let me go Tweet”, but I have added the Be Twittered Gadget to my iGoogle Home page, and that makes it pretty easy to add Tweets without interrupting my daily activities and getting too side tracked.

If you are thinking about using Twitter or want to know more about it, read up on Problogger. Of just sign up for a Twitter account and start Tweeting.

For example search this in Google “link: rfwebstudio.com”

Of the results a ton of them are in another language clearly just spammer sites.

So here is my question to the internet/blogger community. What the heck can be done about this?

I have a feeling the answer is ZERO. The scary part is this, this site was launched at the end of 2007, and now roughly 6 months later I have 300 plus spam sites linked to me, I have a Google PR of 2. Is it helping THEM or just hurting ME? Surly the PR of these sites is very low, and I am sure that it is hurting me. I guess the next step here is to drop my web development services, and start selling Viagra.

A couple of benefits to using the new and improved Microsoft browser

• ACR: Automatic Crash Recovery - automatically reloads previously open tabs upon a crash.
• Better support for activities like e-baying.
• Increased add on and extension support.
• Resize and resolution settings are remembered on next launch.

As for the draw backs, well, let me just sum it up by saying this, you would be better off waiting until IE 9 comes out, then upgrade to IE8! or just get Firefox. For one, upgrading to IE8 Beta, actually crashed my Firefox install. I’m not sure how it happened, but after the restart, I could not launch either browser. That Microsoft for you. Thankfully I had Opera installed, so I could download a new version of FF. If you are upgrading to IE8, please send me your email ad phone number so I can refer you to a PC support person I know.

Happy Browsing!

From w3c.org:

On 10 February 1998, W3C published Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. W3C would like to thank the dedicated communities — including people who have participated in W3C’s XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and xml-dev — whose efforts have created a successful family of technologies based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation.

From Wordpress.org/development

February 5, 2008
WordPress 2.3.3
By Ryan. Filed under Development.

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy it over your existing xmlrpc.php. Otherwise, you can get the entire release here.

Also, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available from its author.

Since we are talking security, remember to use strong passwords and change them regularly. While you’re updating WP and your plugins, consider refreshing your passwords.