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Link tracking redirectors 2

• steve
• Technical

It’s not too difficult to build your own link redirector, perhaps a few hours work for a basic implementation

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Link tracking redirectors

• steve
• Best practices , Technical

Almost every bulk mail sent includes some sort of instrumentation to track which users click on which links and when. That’s usually done by the ESP rewriting links in the content so they point at the ESP’s tracking server, and include information about the customer, campaign and recipient. The recipient clicks on the link in the email, their web browser fetches the link from the tracking server, the tracking server records the details of that click and tells the browser to immediately open the original destination page.

Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google

• laura
• Legal

Today Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign sued Google for $50 million. Why? Because during the night of the first debate Google disabled her “advertising account” (I’m assuming she means adwords) preventing her from being able to purchase ads to direct searchers to her website. There’s also a paragraph in there that they’re “disproportionally putting her email into the spam folder.”

Blogging as thinking

• laura
• Industry

Blogging has been a major part of our outreach and education here at WttW. It’s also the place where I work through some of my ideas. Most of what I do, particularly these days, is education. That means I need to be able to clearly model things in my head and explain that model to other folks.

Google Postmaster is Back

• laura
• Industry

Late last night folks started mentioning they were seeing data trickled into Google Postmaster tools. This morning, some of the domains for some of my clients are showing data.

More Google issues

• laura
• Industry

Not necessarily more but more information about the current Google Postmaster Tools (GPT) outage. I’ve been reliably informed by folks inside Google that they’re aware of the outage and are working on it.

I took a class

• laura
• Industry

… but it’s not what you might think.

A few months ago we bought a Victorian terrace built right around the turn of the 20th century. Our first inclination was to zip it up in as much insulation as we could to bring a 19th century house up to 21st century standards. Then we took a class.

New laptop, old reminder

• steve
• Best practices

I have a new laptop.

New OS (maybe this year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop?¹Yes, the hardware problems did show up as crashes in Xorg). New hardware problems. New applications. New keyboard layout.

Google problems

• laura
• Industry

It’s been a bit of a problematic week for Google. In the last few days they’ve had a number of outages or problems across different services. There was a major outage of Google Calendar. All email, including some spam, was delivering to the primary tab instead of the correct tab. Additionally, Google postmaster tools hasn’t been updated in over a week.

Barracuda update

• laura
• Industry

The Barracuda twitter account has been very helpful and responsive to the issue. A few hours ago they tweeted that the problem should have been fixed.