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Undersea Cable Cuts Could Be Sabotage

More fodder for the conspiracy theorists—well, it's hard to call them "theorists" when officials are making similar proposals.The International Telecommunication Union says damage to the undersea cables that caused Internet and phone access outages all over the Middle East could have been the result of sabotage.

MySpace's Cranky Error Message

MySpace might or might not be able to hold onto its lead in the social networking world.  But one thing’s for sure: it really needs to find someone other than Tom to write its error messages.

iPod Setting Apple Up for Reputation Sabotage?

Let's play a quick game of word association. If someone is about to sneeze, what do you hand them?

Saboteurs Pose Threat To Business Sites

Many businesses run blogs, and even if they haven't taken this step, most companies at least have websites. These can be powerful tools, acting as information centers and advertising platforms. But in the online world, saboteurs can be equally influential by setting up "protest sites" or dropping links to your URL in some unsavory places.

Google Funding Firefox Sabotage

Ed Bott writes that, thanks to Google AdSense's Firefox Referral program, publishers are defacing their own websites and annoying users, all in the name of a $1 bounty.

Dont Step on Your SEO

The good advice over at ISEDB from Scott Buresh regarding how ways clients sabotage the search engine optimization performed on their site has motivated me to write a few of my own along with comments on some of Scott's suggestions:

Scoble Deletes Anti-Google Post

Microsoft's Chief Blogger Robert Scoble pulled a anti-Google post from his blog yesterday. I'm reprinting it here (thanks to the Bloglines cache) for you to peruse...

Google Bowling: How Competitors Can Sabotage You; What Google Should Do About It

Have you heard about the latest "sport" in dirty online business? It's called Google Bowling and it represents a gaping flaw in Google's system that allows your competitors to sabotage your site to the point of getting it banned or penalized.

No Logo? Launching a Business Without a Logo Can Sabotage You

Initial lack of customers and cash flow often causes a small business to put off designing a logo and marketing materials professionally "until [they] got a few clients" or "until [they] get started." Designing their own marketing materials when they launch their business, instead of having them professionally created, will make getting those initial clients more difficult, and may result in a business that will not succeed.

The Top Twelve E-Mail Mistakes That Can Sabotage Your Career

You return to your office from an afternoon meeting and decide to check e-mail. You wonder where your day went after spending hours downloading messages, reading some, deleting others, crafting replies and filing those that you want to work on later. Your e-mail box was full when you arrived at work this morning and tomorrow promises to be no different.