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Using Google to search for compromised pages

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Google search is powerful, so powerful at finding important information it can also be used to find exploited information. By exploited information I mean pages that have been used to increase the page rank of advertisements by attaching their links to a high page ranked domain.
Its easy to search just your site for commonly used [...]

Microformats now on all web page footers

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

We have just expanded our vcard microformated university address from the university homepage to all pages in the universities Content Management System. The list can be found here, it doesn’t include all the pages by far but it is a crucial step to integrate microformats into all pages at the university. Not only the vcard [...]

Wayne State goes Twittering

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Branching out past the confines of our university homepage means working with public API’s and services. We started yesterday with Twitter, the first of many social and external sites we will be pushing information.
We choose twitter mainly because of its simplicity. The idea of having a full blown facebook application with no street credit seemed [...]

Getting down to business

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Over the past two months have been slowing down our client work in an effort to focus on the universities main homepage and central university tools. Being the second day of work things seem to be going as planned, we squashed a few bugs in the homepage and are discussing additional features to the child [...]

New year, New endeavors.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

With the new year comes new endeavors. 2008 has started and we are back to work, here is a few things we are bringing with us.

Welcoming Nick West to the team! Nick as worked as a student assistant for about a year and has been hired full time.
A blog dedicated to the daily work of [...]