In essence, it sets up a third- and a fourth-party that are agents for the end-user and site, respectively.
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The 35-year-old University of Illinois grad who also has one year of Harvard Business School under his belt founded the local directory and user review site in 2004 with Russel Simmons, a former PayPal colleague.
But instead of encrypting the traffic in both directions, it instead spoofs the traffic from a Web site to a user to make it seem to be coming from any Web site that the user wants to test.
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That means when you click from an insecure tab in your browser to a secure one, the insecure site can wait until the user is on a trusted site and send a pop-up requesting the user download a plug-in.
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If an attacker knows what site a user plans to visit, he can visit the site ahead of time and pick up a valid cookie before the user gets there.
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Jez Jowett, head of London-based creative agency Cake New Media which designed the Web site, told CNN that a user-friendly Web site could work extremely well to target key demographics.
MySpace says the new software will ensure that when copyright holders ask for a video to be removed from the site's user-generated content, the site's filters will prevent users from uploading it again.
The most popular sites and services are publicizing amazing growth in their user bases and site activity.
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The user-friendly site, which runs on open source Chinese wiki software, has colorful graphics and icons to click on imaginatively designed sections.
Prosecutors asked Mr. Merenkov if he knew every user of the site.
We were even told by our consultants that Facebook ads typically do not work if you send a Facebook user off the site.
One large problem in making this work is the need for a cross-site user identity, one that links together the activity from one user in all of the different networks.
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While the most convincing testimonials are unsolicited, adding a tab to your web site reserved for nothing but testimonials and endorsements from ANY source not only makes your site user-friendlier, but can also result in more business through search engine placement.
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From then on, any time the user clicks on a Web site, program or database that requires its own user ID and password, the software issues the proper credentials, all in the background, without the user having to lift a finger or remember a word.
Google originally seemed to be about organizing content and sending the end user off to someone else's site, not capturing the end user.
On Monday, Facebook launched a redesign, which it says will make its site more user friendly.
According to the complaint against Hicks, unsealed Tuesday, Hicks was a user of the FBI site.
The user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing are also taking part in the "blackout".
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Expedia owns a social travel site called TripAdvisor, which is considered the premier site for user-generated travel reviews.
In every case, unplanned peaks in user traffic pounded the site, and brought performance to a screeching halt.
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Most top ten lists of common passwords include the name of the site the user is logging in to.
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While Amazon has long had user reviews on its site, Amazon.com does not have social features that Goodreads does.
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His glowing praise is to the right, and amidst a sea of negative user reviews for the site, a perfect ten stood out.
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The news follows an announcement earlier this week that another user-uploaded video site, Paris-based DailyMotion, will also be using Audible Magic to filter out copyrighted materials.
Users register with an email address, and then give the site the user names and passwords for their bank, credit union, credit card and investment accounts.
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In early 2010, the site added user accounts and pro accounts, and later the ability to sign in through Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo accounts.
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With ComScore Web-usage data and public financial filings, it's now possible to figure out how much revenue the two rivals collect for every hour that each user spends on the site.
Redirecting the user might make sense if for example the attacker wanted to send the user to a phishing site to attempt to get the victim to supply their PayPal log-in credentials.
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