Max Beatty

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    Archive for February, 2010

    BidFire Rewarding Winners For Spamming Blogs

    I recently disabled comments on an old post called “BidFire: Deceptively Easy To Get Burned” because all of the comments were senseless positive reviews for BidFire and didn’t contribute to the discussion about the service in my opinion. To put it in perspective, the 70 comments on that one article accounts for close to 25% [...]

    My First Three Months on the Job

    Last week concluded my first three months at my first job out of college. Accenture has been great! I’ve learned a lot, met a lot of great people, and am excited about the career ahead of me.

    My First Days

    A habit is a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. I’m a consultant so my job is rarely the same, and I love that.  Tonight, I realized I have a terrible unique habit for first days. I break most of the rules and still manage to succeed.

    Is Foursquare Vulnerable to a Botnet Takeover?

    After Jim Bumgardner’s blog post Monday confessing to cheating on Foursquare and subsequent LA Times coverage, I think Foursquare will be addressing their service’s security immediately. For those of you who don’t know, Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. Bumgardner used Foursquare’s 3 month old API to become mayor the [...]

    Overlooked Everyday Conveniences

    I’ve been traveling the past two weeks for work and noticed some small conveniences that airlines, hotels, and rental car companies have provided and a lot of opportunities they have to go the extra mile for their customers without a lot of effort.

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