Delicious, originally known by the tough-to-remember URL of del.icio.us, was founded in 2003 by Joshua Schacter.
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People can start a chat, then simply send a URL of the chat to friends via email, Facebook or Twitter.
Hackers simply load a program from the Internet and put it in the url of the site they want to attack.
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The watermark, Dr Venter says, includes a cipher which contains the URL of a website and three quotations, if you can work out how to decode it.
It automatically forwards ingame.scea.com to the url of your choice.
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On the same day the hackers also published a list of 78 e-mail addresses and passwords from the Syrian government and the URL of the webmail server they shared.
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But anywho, it turns out that just putting in the URL of a blog or news site more often than not gets us the result we want: the textual content of that page converted to an audio file.
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We tried this at first using the URL of an RSS feed, but we ended up getting an audio file on the plain XML file unrendered instead of the RSS feed as rendered by Safari, which is what we would want in a perfect world which is confusing.
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The page was published with an opinion-nytimes.com URL instead of nytimes.com.
We've been trying to murder a (UK-based) GS III here at Engadget, but with no luck as yet -- we can cause the malicious digits to appear in the dialer, but we can't force the stock browser to visit them as a URL, even when trying a bit of URL forwarding and QR code trickery.
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The problem, of course, is spammers, scammers, and other shady characters have made good use of URL shortening services, too.
Jun says in the case of the Nike solicitation for authentication there was only a unique URL on the cover of the catalog.
Generally these are comfortable choices derived from your history, but when presented with a prominent list of options, and only the small indicator of the URL bar that something else can be chose, most people will pick one of the obvious options being presented to them.
Who cares if users get to these Google-alternatives through their devices instead of a URL?
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By adding a v to the end of the URL, the writer ended up on an entirely different site with some tantalizing new information.
While every web browser still has a URL bar that allows someone to enter a website address, but with shinier interfaces and toys available, the role of the direct URL is being diminished.
Digital gold currency is all of these wrapped in one easy to use URL. These companies have a decade of history and experience, it is the merchants who are shy about accepting payments.
Wiggen said other removal sites also make use of that same URL, but he declined to name them.
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Rather than circling among dozens of websites and suffering through tiresome page loads at each URL, RSS adherents can skim headlines at the hub of a giant content wheel, and in many cases (depending on how the feeds were configured) read entire articles without leaving the RSS service.
One typical approach is to transpose a couple of letters within a URL, so that a quick glance wouldn't pick it up: www.bankingwesbite.co.uk.
The container also facilitates direct access to file systems and document sharing such as SharePoint, without the additional encumbrance of entering a unique URL into a browser or multiple sign-ons.
You want to make sure that your site is only rendering 1 piece of content on 1 URL, and not rendering the same content on multiple URLs due to technical issues.
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The announcement also includes image search on desktop in which user can upload any image or incorporate an image URL into Google search for the identification of that image.
In a bow to the importance of branding, sites can also opt to have a URL that doesn't include the "Ning" name--for a modest fee, of course.
With a majority of retailers today using social media to offer promotions or coupons, a solid Application Control and URL Filtering solution can help mitigate the risks employees may encounter with millions of websites and Web 2.0 applications accessible to users.
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Yet, UTM encompasses NGF, and indeed most of the NGF vendors also include URL content inspection, and anti-malware features.
From an SEO standpoint, there is some degree of leverage in using the same URL structure across desktop and mobile content versions.
This payment, in the form of a bitly-esque short URL, can then be included in an email to that address, and the user can attempt to call attention to the enclosed bribe in the subject line.
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Just like the source of a potentially phishy email, the URL that you are being sent to may be easily spotted as a fake.
Whilst Twitter has made moves to fill this data hole by using its own t.co URL wrapper, that has only addressed that part of the problem.
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