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- Top CEOs Still Ignoring Twitter and Facebook
It might not come as a surprise that many of the world’s top CEOs still are not onboard with the whole social networking thing. What is most interesting though is the percentage of CEOs who don’t care. 2 CEOs from Fortune magazine’s top 100 companies have Twitter accounts. 2! Only 19 have Facebook accounts and [...] - Dedicated Hosting is Dead
I was looking over the reviews we will be placing online soon (yes WebHostMagazine.com will have new reviews, we already posted one, more each week will come) and I have been noticing an interesting trend. Although trend is not really the word for it… I suppose standard is best. What is interesting about this new [...] - 80k Per Song, Fair? Give me a break
So I am going off the page today. Instead of discussing something within the industry I want to take a look at the latest RIAA court case. It was a retrial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset who shared 24 songs on Kazaa.In the original trial, the fine was only $222,000 and this time around it is now [...] - Dasient, Filling in the Gaps in Online Security
Web security is a very important part of Web development. We have software and hardware security solutions that cover everything from email to servers, databases, policy changes, and more. But is everything covered?Do we have a womb to tomb product line for every part of a Web site? Prior to yesterday I could say yes, [...] - Bundling Competitor Products for a Better Tomorrow
I want everyone to take a moment to think about their competition. Not just the competition, but whoever they believe their arch nemesis is in the arena of capitalism. Now I want you to think about bundling their product, service, and so forth with your own products.Sorta weird and somewhat against the whole competitive market [...] - Irony: Customer Service and Telecoms
Telecommunication has the word communication in it and yet it leads the charts, for the third straight year, as the worst industry for customer support. And what’s more, other companies have been improving their customer satisfaction scores… telecoms haven’t. In fact, many are getting worse.In the bottom 5 for customer support, four are telecommunication companies. [...] - Netcraft Lists Most Reliable Web Hosts
UK based Internet services company Netcraft has named its most reliable website hosting companies for the month of May. Netcraft uses a series of monitoring servers from separate points around the Internet to log performance measurements made at fifteen minute intervals for a broad list of web hosting providers. The averages are calculated over the [...] - Corpses, Giant Clams, and Kinky Puppies not Epic Enough for You?
Curtis R Curtis from RankSense sent out a tweet that is quite good. I have been thinking about it off and on for a while. What is interesting is it reminds me of a thing we use to do earlier in my journalistic career. That’s not the good bit though. The good bit is it [...] - How to Protect Your Sites from the Gumblar Botnet
The latest botnet attack named Gumblar has been attacking the Internet for a few weeks. ScanSafe named this attack Gumblar because it functions out of the website gumblar.cn. Researchers and security experts believe Gumblar infects a site through the FTP. Weak passwords, poor permissions, etc. open the doors to the Gumblar Trojan.First thing to do [...] - WolframAlpha, Google Killer it is Not, but Still Kinda Cool
Whenever someone creates a search engine the very first things out of someone’s mouth is,“its a Google Killer.” Sad to say, for those who want a Google Killer, this ain’t it. Be that as it may, I have been fooling around with the Wolfram Alpha search engine for some time now and in many [...]
