Why you can no longer have an 'invite-your-friends' feature

Marketing people absolutely love having an 'invite your friends' featureon your website, where your existing users can stick in the emailaddresses of their friends to have you send invitations to your serviceto them. Unfortunately, there are a number of problems with it that meanyou can't have one any more.

First, if you provide any way to have user-entered text (even inthe form of the sending user's nominal real name), spammerswill exploit it . Second, even with no


Some suggestions for registration confirmation emails

As a practical matter, I think that registration confirmation emailshould have at least three characteristics:


砂丘之女


這是敕使河原宏1964年拍的黑白电影,改編自安部公房的小說《砂丘之女》。

小說本身充滿存在主義的色彩,電影幾乎跟足原著拍攝,整體改動不大,但拍出了沙漠的荒涼和故事的荒謬,多場畫面震撼人心,構圖優美,導演

How our 'plug in and go' laptop network DHCP portal works

As I mentioned in the last entry , wehave an internal subnet for laptops and other generic user machines.For various reasons, we require machines on this subnet to be registeredso that we can identify who is (theoretically) responsible for them.One of the ways that people can do this is with a 'plug in and go'registration portal; you plug in, try to go somewhere, and you windup on a simple registration web page instead.

Behind the scenes, it works like this:

  • our

你是政治冷感的人嗎?


“雙選年”不止對政治人物是考驗,對於青少年,這一年也絕對是一場測試。

這一年我們親身見識了特首選舉是怎樣一回事,這一年我們也見證了十六個組別如何為立法會的直選議席各出奇謀,在這一年裡,這個小城的政治活動

自我檢討

最近我這個blog是有點古怪,我必須好好檢討自己所犯下的錯誤……

錯誤之一,在facebook太濫交。通常見到對方的朋友名單內有我相熟的朋友,我就會add,可能當中有人同我有血海深仇(我話可能咋),我都照當對方係朋友,於是我在

How our DHCP registration portal redirections work

Like other places, we have an automatic DHCP registration portal (to usethe term I've heard). In the abstract, you plug your new laptop intoour laptop network, try to visit some website, and instead wind up ona registration web page. You supply your local login and password, themachine you're using is registered as yours, and then you can go on toget Internet access.

(Some registration portals will automatically send you on to whateverwebsite you were trying to visit.


炒金炒油炒期指


明報
B09 | 創富理財 | 投資名人 | By 龍彩霞
2009-09-25



炒金炒油炒期指 袁彌明 :緊追財經新聞



投資界有不少名人,大家熟悉的可能是巴菲特或彼得林治等,商品要數有「商品大王」之稱的羅傑斯(Jim Rogers)。 袁彌明


頭暈暈動手慢

(但看到 陳德康文章 時還是以一種緩慢、暈眩的方式,燒著了)

禁毒,從理解開始

月前曾在本欄介紹過楊照新著《理性的人》,談到理性的基礎乃在於一種內在的感受力,唯有先了解他人的感受,我們才能判斷是非,並在社會上

台山之旅‧四: 瑞石樓


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