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		<title>It is time for your business to Pinterest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social picture site Pinterest has been taking off recently. It&#8217;s a website where people &#8220;pin&#8221; pictures of things they like, categorize and share them. Doesn&#8217;t seem initially like this has much business potential, but take a look at this article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2175367/Why-Your-SEO-Social-Strategy-Should-Include-Pinterest The article writers did some SEO testing, and found some interesting results. A brand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Probe Blocker</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/04/new-probe-blocker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Web Tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just released &#8211; my new probe blocker. Automatically block IP addresses of probes that are scanning your site, looking for vulnerabilities, spamming your forms, etc. Nasty robots are probing websites all the time, looking for security holes, hidden content, and forms that they can spam. This software installs on your website and blocks any IP&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A browser trend &#8211; IE use is waning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember the days (late 1990&#8242;s) when Netscape navigator ruled the web browser market, and Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer was a joke. In a few short years, however, Microsoft dominated the market, wiping out Netscape, and taking over 90% of the browser share. This domination continued even as new upstarts, like Opera, Safari (Mac) and Firefox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website owner checklist</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/03/website-owner-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Maintenance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this post I want to point out some critical information that each website owner needs to have handy.  I work with a lot of websites, and often times I get a frantic email, or call from someone saying &#8220;my website is down &#8211; what do I do?&#8221;.  Now I&#8217;m happy to help out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New privacy button on your browser?</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/02/new-privacy-button-on-your-browser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the growing concerns over user privacy online are finally coming to a head.  The new proposed &#8220;Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights&#8221; has gained concessions from Google to add a &#8220;privacy&#8221; button to its browser.  Firefox already has this.  The button essentially signals advertisers not to track your movements (by turning off cookies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of smartphones</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/02/the-rise-of-smartphones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is some data from the Nielson group on smartphone penetration: For The Young, Smartphones No Longer A Luxury Item If you look at the 18-24 year old segment, 56% of those surveyed own a smartphone.  So, if we can extrapolate out, that is quite a wave of mobile traffic coming to your website.  Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content filtering for your home or office.</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/02/content-filtering-for-your-home-or-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/02/content-filtering-for-your-home-or-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the web (ca. 1996-1999), one big concern new users had regarded filtering web content.  Parents were worried about their kids seeing inappropriate content, etc.  The Internet was new territory for them, and they approached it cautiously.  In general, their concerns were well founded &#8211; &#8220;adult&#8221; and gambling sites abounded, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Social Media &#8220;free&#8221; ride?</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/02/end-of-the-free-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/02/end-of-the-free-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week the big story was Facebook filing for an IPO.  $10 Billion is the estimate of what they will raise in new cash.  The filing unmasks some of the realities of today&#8217;s internet. Well, this guy summarizes it pretty well: &#8220;Two years from now, Facebook should be competing with Google to see who can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More problems with &#8220;the cloud&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/01/more-problems-with-the-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/01/more-problems-with-the-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[buzzwords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day the FBI took down megaupload.com for copyright violations, etc. (meaning piracy).  Here&#8217;s a link to the story if you missed it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399105,00.asp But here&#8217;s another part of the story &#8211; millions of &#8220;legitimate&#8221; users lost access to any files they had stored there.  This type of &#8220;file storage&#8221; site is part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I got an Amazon Fire!</title>
		<link>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/01/i-got-an-amazon-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/2012/01/i-got-an-amazon-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.robertswebforge.com/blog/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, I finally broke down and bought the relatively new Amazon Fire tablet.  People are increasingly browsing the web using mobile devices, so it was time to get one myself. A few observations &#8211; despite what some people claim, typing is rather slow.  I find the keys a little small for my fingers, so I [...]]]></description>
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