Archive for September 2008
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 [...]
Tags: business success, Google, google power, gphone, Microsoft, rim
Posted in Commentary, Marketing |
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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 [...]
Tags: advertisers, Google, google ads, google yahoo deal, Marketing, PPC, PPC campaign, yahoo
Posted in In the News |
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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 [...]
Tags: analytical software, Marketing, referring links, ROI, search engine marketing, SEO, web analytics
Posted in Commentary, Future Trends, Marketing, Search Engine Marketing |
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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 [...]
Tags: analytical software, Marketing, referring links, ROI, Search Engine Marketing, search engine marketing, SEO, web analytics
Posted in Commentary, General Information, Search Engine Marketing |
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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 [...]
Tags: 301 redirects, control panels, PHP, plesk, web hosting support
Posted in Hosting Articles, Industry Experts, Web Hosting Info |
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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 [...]
Tags: App-V, cloud computing., MMO, SaaS, virtual desktop, vitualization
Posted in Commentary, Future Trends, Industry Experts |
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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 [...]
Tags: open source networking, open source software, Vyatta, web hosting interview
Posted in Conference Interviews, Conferences, Future Trends, HostingCon 2008, Industry Experts, Interviews |
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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 [...]
Tags: open source networking, open source software, Vyatta, web hosting interview
Posted in Conference Interviews, Conferences, Future Trends, HostingCon 2008, Industry Experts, Interviews |
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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 [...]
Tags: domain hosting, email hosting, opensrs, reseller survey, social network hosting
Posted in Commentary, Features, Future Trends, Social Media, Web Hosting Info |
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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’ [...]
Tags: Chrome browser, Google, Microsoft
Posted in In the News, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing |
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