Facebook Ramps up its Ecommerce Capabilities with Gifts

Facebook has announced that it is introducing ‘Facebook Gifts,’ a service that allows members to select a gift and send it to their contacts or friends from Facebook’s Gifts service.

Blocking Baidu and Yandex Search Spiders

We noticed on a couple of sites that bandwidth was being sucked and vaporised. After some analytics investigation we noticed that Yandex and Baidu search engine bots were hammering the server.