Archive for September 2008

Never Underestimate the Power of Google

Sep 26th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Marketing

The Gphones are here and already major players in the industry such as Microsoft, Apple, and RIM are blowing them off. Didn’t we do this dance before?
I can understand RIM’s point of view more than Microsoft. RIM has never had to face-off against Google and although the battles of Google versus every market they have [...]



Advertisers Throw their Names Against Google-Yahoo Deal

Sep 24th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: In the News

With the EU looking to investigate the use of Google Adwords on Yahoo’s network in US and Canada the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has also presented the disagreements of various advertisers to the EU.
Although the deal would be isolated to the US and Canada, advertisers say it will have a global impact.
“We feel this [...]



Web Analytics 101: Think Different

Sep 17th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Future Trends, Marketing, Search Engine Marketing

As much as some people may think that web analytics has some sort of mystical or voodoo powers and that by using them you will be filled with a wealth of insight and knowledge that you will immediately see working its wonders on your site’s traffic, think again. All web analytic software does is give [...]



Top Ten Things to Look For in Your Analytical Software

Sep 12th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, General Information, Search Engine Marketing

To start with, no one package will have everything you need to truly unlock your site’s potential. However there are a number of free and purchased sites and software that can give you a look at the bigger picture.
The Top Ten things to look for in analytical software is as follows:

Referring Links
Referring Keywords and Search [...]



Plesk, PHP and 301 Redirects

Sep 11th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Hosting Articles, Industry Experts, Web Hosting Info

From time to time I like to try out new technologies or explore established web publishing techniques that I just haven’t tried yet. And so it was that I had set up a dedicated hosting server, loaded up the Plesk control panel from Parallels, and launched a test website.
In the process of learning how to [...]



Virtual Desktops and You

Sep 8th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Future Trends, Industry Experts

With all the new technologies out and coming out
There are many new technologies being talked about, cloud computing, virtualization, virtual operating systems, hypervisors, virtual desktops, the list goes on. What does it all mean and how will it affect you?
If the goal is an online operating system, then we are seeing the middle stages happening [...]



HostingCon 2008: Vyatta Interview with Tom McCafferty 2 of 2

Sep 5th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Conference Interviews, Conferences, Future Trends, HostingCon 2008, Industry Experts, Interviews

Part 2 of my interview with Tom McCafferty, Director of Marketing and rockstar of Vyatta.
David: What was the original design of the company? Was it originally just to be software or did you want software and hardware at the same time?
McCafferty: Software definitely software..we still consider ourselves a software company. We haven’t changed our [...]



HostingCon 2008: Vyatta Interview with Tom McCafferty 1 of 2

Sep 4th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Conference Interviews, Conferences, Future Trends, HostingCon 2008, Industry Experts, Interviews

At HostingCon 2008, I managed to sit down with many movers and shakers of the industry. My interviews are more conversations between professionals and as such can take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour. Due to this, I have split the interviews into numerous parts. The following is my interview with Vyatta representative Tom [...]



OpenSRS Reseller Survey Reveals Missed Opportunity

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Features, Future Trends, Social Media, Web Hosting Info

Thanks to my friends at OpenSRS (the reseller service group of Tucows), I managed to get a copy of the results of one of their reseller surveys. What was interesting was the vast majority of resellers use social networking, but believe that social networks (or those who host social networks) are not a serious threat [...]



Google Launches Chrome Browser

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing

In yet another salvo across the bow of Microsoft, Google has launched its own web browser. The new product is open source and was actually released somewhat prematurely due to the release of an online comic book which Google created to explain the reasoning and features behind the new browser.
The Google browser is named ‘Chrome’ [...]