K2 Incense – How much do you know?

K2 incense has started to spread throughout the world and it could be in your neighborhood now, before you know. K2 herb is usually sold as a mixture that can be burned as incense. In countries, states and municipalities that have placed a ban on the product, K2 variations are introduced to bypass new laws. These new products include the original mixes, herbal incense, capsules, liquids and powders. What is a government official to do?

History has shown that governments prohibit this type of product will do just to make good citizens and turn them into criminals. The government is much more successful regulate these products as a way to exert more control over distribution and may have this type of product. The irony is that, after hundreds of years of government attempts to ban something in the application, not yet realized that it is much easier to control products such as alcohol than simply illegal. Remember that the success of the ban was?

So how can you identify if K2 is in your house? If incense K2 is in a solid form that can be seen as a mixture of incense, usually you can buy anywhere, so the identification can be a tricky prospect for parents and law enforcement. When the products are legal, a police officer to do? Arresting someone for establishing legal possession of something only the city, county or state a claim paid courtesy of local taxpayers.

New mixes of popular incense K2 product line continue to confuse law enforcement and parents. A new product called K2 Amazon is offered as a liquid product extract. Usage is not explained, but do not seem obvious. Another product of incense is called K2 Thailand and is sold in capsule form, the use of the product is not explained, but it seems pretty obvious. Another product, K2 Sky is a new form of incense developed to circumvent the efforts of law enforcement. All these products have been described as “legal everywhere.”

Whatever the shape of goods sold K2 incense, its use is the same. K2 incense is clearly a product that is intended to be eaten so that the chemicals and ingredients found in herbal formulations base can be released. Once consumed, can cause a high state of consciousness or altered. And this can cause all sorts of interesting things happen.

K2 aroma can be begin in abounding gas stations, smoke shops and herbal amoebic stores. With so much of physical surveillance, people are using internet to buy k2 incense. Be it good or bad, the user has to decide!

 

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4 Great Tips to Market Your E-Commerce Site

The success of your e-commerce site depends largely on your ability to conduct a strategic, targeted advertising campaign. You might have the best products available, the lowest prices possible, and the most knowledgable and professional staff in your industry. However, if your target audience isn’t aware of your company, or if you haven’t made the effort to reach out to the correct consumers, your sales will be marginal. Here are four great tips to market your e-commerce site.

1. Use Link Building to Generate Traffic

Link building is the process of placing links on external websites that direct Internet traffic to your e-commerce site. Of course, you can’t simply force other websites to link to your site. Instead, you’ll need to create inbound links naturally.

One of the best link building methods is known as guest posting. With guest posting, you’ll create guest blog posts for other websites similar to your own. The external site doesn’t need to be a competitor. Rather, it could be a likeminded site that discusses topics relevant to your e-commerce site. For example, if your site sells computer components, you might offer a guest blog post to a computer hardware review and community site. You’ll then place one or two links to your site within the guest post. In this way, you contribute valuable content to an external site in exchange for inbound links to your own e-commerce site.

2. Take Advantage of Article Directories

An article directory is a website that includes hundreds or even thousands of unique, categorized articles pertaining to various topics. Article directories can be used to market your e-commerce site in the same way that guest blog posts can be used for the purposes of link building.

Try writing a high quality article detailing the products or services you sell, and submit it to an authoritative article directory. You can include a couple of links that direct traffic back to your site. Writing concise, pointed articles with important keywords relevant to your operation will provide the best results.

3. Reach Additional Customers with Google AdWords

AdWords is a Google service that allows you to create and display advertisements on Google and on other sites contained in Google’s advertising network. The process is simple: first, you’ll create an advertisement including keywords and keyword phrases relevant to your company. Next, you’ll submit the ad to Google AdWords. When an Internet user searches for one of your chosen keywords, your ad will have a chance of appearing adjacent to the search results. You won’t have to pay a penny until someone actually clicks on your ad. This is known as pay-per-click advertising.

4. Offer Discounts Through Coupon Sites

Currently, there are hundreds of sites devoted to posting online coupons and discount codes for reputable e-commerce sites. Aside from their primary function of allowing customers to enjoy your products and services at discounted rates, coupon site create additional external links that drive traffic to your site. This will increase your presence in search engine results and give your target consumers a good reason to purchase your products now instead of later.

- Guest post by Michael Cash, who is a twenty something freelance writer and internet consultant providing SEO services, residing in western Michigan. When he’s not coaching people out of 1990s era web practices, amateur astronomy and hiking take up his time. A completely random fact about Michael is that he used to “ghost hunt” as a youngster.

Blackhole Exploit Sucks in Twitter Users

According to the security firm Sophos, who seems to be on top of every single major spam attack that happens on the internet these days, a widespread spam attack that links to malware has weaseled its way onto Twitter. The tweets that are trying to lure unsuspecting users in include things like: "It's you on photo?" or "It's about you?" In addition to that, the tweets and URLs typically include a user's Twitter handle. Many of the links that Sophos has discovered include a .RU domain name.

According to Head of Sophos' U.S. Labs Richard Wang, "The attack itself is very simple, relying on people's natural curiosity about anything they think mentions them. Including the target's Twitter username in the link is an added hook to reel people in." Twitter added through a spokesman's email saying, "We're aware of the issue and we're working to resolve it."

The links in the tweets themselves lead to a Trojan that ultimately redirects users to Russian websites that contain the Blackhole exploit kit, according to Sophos. The Blackhole exploit kit first emerged back in 2010 and is widely used in spam attacks. The version of the kit that is floating around Twitter targets vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Shockwave Flash, Sophos discovered.

If you feel that you have been affected by the spamming attacks, or you just want to take precautions against it in general, then you can protect yourself by updating your anti-malware software, patching your operating system and making sure your browser and browser plugins are up-to-date. In addition to that, you could just be smart and not click on anything on Twitter that you don't recognize.

Source: Computer World - Twitter suffers malware spam outbreak

Yahoo Gets Hacked, Quickly Follows Up with a Patch

Yahoo recently announced that it has fixed the vulnerability in its system that led to the unauthorized release of more than 450,000 email passwords from users of Yahoo Voices. According to a blog post by Yahoo, "We have taken swift action and have now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for affected Yahoo! users, enhanced our underlying security controls and are in the process of notifying affected users. In addition, we will continue to take significant measures to protect our users and their data."

The released data only affected those users who joined Associated Content before May 2010, the same time Yahoo acquired the company. According to Yahoo, "This compromised file was a standalone file that was not used to grant access to Yahoo systems and services." The next time the affected users sign into their Yahoo account, they will be asked to answer a series of authentication questions to change and validate account details, according to Yahoo.

The company added, "At Yahoo we take security very seriously and invest heavily in protective measures to ensure the security of our users and their data across all our products. We sincerely apologize to all affected users." Those affected users encompass 453,491 people whose emails and passwords were posted online by hacker group D33DS Company according to security firm Sophos. In a recent response to Sophos, D33DS Company stated, "We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat."

Sophos recently released a new blog post that highlighted some of the insecure passwords many of the Yahoo hack victims were using. This included 1,666 people who used "123456" as their password and an additional 780 users who used "password" as their password. Among the other top choices were passwords like "welcome", "ninja", "sunshine", "princess" and "qwerty". I suddenly don't feel as bad for these people as I used to.

Yahoo isn't the only one who got hacked this week. Nvidia recently announced that it shut down its Developer Zone after it got hacked. That hack may have allowed the hacker to gain access to password information as well. In addition to Nvidia and Yahoo, Phandroid also got hacked, this one occurring on its Android forums.

Source: PC Mag - Yahoo Patches Email Vulnerability

Twitter Ends Partnership with LinkedIn

According to a recent blog post by LinkedIn, Twitter has decided to end a two and a half year partnership with the website. The partnership allowed users of the social networking site for business professionals to publish tweets directly to their LinkedIn profiles. Consumer Product Chief for Twitter Michael Sippey recently wrote a post on the site's developer blog that the changes were part of a move to "deliver a core Twitter consumption experience through a consistent set of products and tools."

This isn't too surprising as Twitter has been slowly trying to push out partners who show tweets on their websites. However, those efforts have also been primarily focused on mobile clients, the same place Twitter has been emphasizing its own offerings.

LinkedIn and Twitter users will still be able to post updates on LinkedIn and broadcast them to Twitter, though the content sharing will not go the other way. This actually goes along with what Twitter's overall strategy has been recently. The social network is welcoming of others sending content to Twitter but isn't so keen on having others use tweets as content on their sites.

The strange thing about all of this, however, is that Twitter just upgraded its own Facebook app, which crossposts tweets to users' Facebook profiles, which is the exact same thing that the partnership with LinkedIn allowed since the partnership between the two sites formed back in 2009.

Twitter has struggled with rule and practice consistency for some time now with its partners like LinkedIn. Developers who have created apps for viewing tweets have found themselves placed at a disadvantage by changes to Twitter's rules and the site's efforts to develop its own mobile clients.

Source: Business Insider - Twitter Gives LinkedIn The Bird

ARM Develops New GPU for Low-Cost Tablets

ARM has just created a brand new, entry level version of its Mali graphics processor that, if incorporated, could expand the market of low cost Android tablets. Known as the Mali-450, this GPU is designed to help manufacturers build tablets that are less expensive than the ones currently leading the markets, like Apple's iPad which runs $399. However, these manufacturers still want good enough graphics performance to keep most users satisfied.

Touchscreens and HD video are pretty standard when it comes to tablets these days, with the GPUs in these devices accounting for a big share of the price you pay. In addition to that, more powerful GPUs take up more space on the CPU, which could also increase costs. A lot of manufacturers are looking for cheaper parts that offer decent graphics performance while also occupying less space. This is where the Mali-450 fits in.

The new GPU is offered with as many as eight cores and offers double the performance of its predecessor the Mali-400. The Mali-450 is also expected to appear in tablets in the first half of 2013 according to Director of Marketing for ARM's Media Processing Division Ian Smythe.

Tablet makers are showing an increased demand for a wide range of price and performance characteristics, which is where this new ARM GPU comes in . The company is planning on offering the Mali-T600 series for high-end devices and the Mali-400 series for low-end devices.

Both series will be able to do gaming and video playback but, according to Smythe, only the high-end parts will be able to handle "computational graphics". That includes things like matching points on two images to do facial recognition or stitching photographs together into a panorama. ARM is also developing a high-end part known as Skrymir (not to be confused with Skyrim, cheeky devils) which is due out sometime in 2014.

Source: Computer World - ARM preps Mali GPU for low-cost Android tablets