We asked you to tell us your stories of Web 2.0 woe to
win a fantastic prize fromBlue Coat
Systems.
The winner was Annamarie Simpson, who submitted the following
story of social media gone wrong:
One of my friends set up her own business and posted a link to
her website (or so she thought) on Facebook. It was really funny
because after six weeks and still only two orders, she received a
message from another business thanking her for promoting them... It
turned out that she'd put the link up wrong and they'd been getting
loads of orders!
See also: Check out our photo gallery
Fail 2.0: How to lose friends and alienate people through social
networking for some of our favourite notorious examples of how
not to use social media.
Blue Coat
Blue Coat’s Application
Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure enables organisations to
accelerate business critical applications such as Oracle and limit
recreational use of corporate networks by staff when they see fit.
ADN combines application monitoring, WAN optimisation and Secure
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of all applications and Web content running across the network.
Organisations can also accelerate centralised internal, external,
encrypted, customised and video applications by applying protocol
optimisation, object and byte caching, compression and bandwidth
management. Furthermore, the solution enables the CIO to apply
bandwidth and quality of service controls based on their specific
corporate IT policies. For example, allowing staff access to
non-business critical applications such as Facebook and Twitter at
off-peak times.