Forecast for Microsoft is cloudy with a chance of SaaS. Bad puns aside, Microsoft unleashed a barrage of news this week chief among them is Azure, Windows 7, and moving Office to SaaS (the aptly named Office 14).
Details on Office 14 are sketchy at the moment, but during the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft declared that [...]

Telecommuting has a number of strengths. For the employee it gives a comfortable atmosphere to work in, saves on gas, and the headaches of commuting   with many self-motivated types. For the company, it reduces the need for office space and supplies, increases employee happiness and can lead to increased productivity. However, telecommuting has a fatal [...]

According to some extremely long and painstaking research, I have found 2004 to be the pinnacle of Web Hosting. If you use Google Trends you would probably say that 2004 was the dot com bubble burst for Web hosting.
Search on any web hosting related term and you will see a huge spike in 2004. As [...]

It has been reported in a variety of popular media outlets that United States presidential candidate, Barack Obama, has purchased advertising in nine Electronic Arts video games prior to this November’s election. This marks the first time that any person running for the presidency has used in-game advertising to sway the electorate. You can see [...]

Social marketing can be a very fickle fiend. When a company decides to advertise all it takes is a simple plan, build the message, select the medium, craft the pitch, then let it rip. But how do companies go about making something viral?
Viral messages are those messages that are so different, so amazing, or so [...]

Early in the morning, red lights go off and the network administrator once again has to address the problem of a server in the throes of death. An onslaught of terminated connections assaults the web site as the admin desperately tries to bring things back online.
Although this type of thing happens to a lot of [...]

Interesting to note that this time of season seems to be filled with web sites where the powers that be have decided its a great time for a redesign. Unfortunately, it also seems to be a time where the users are screaming bloody murder and protesting the companies to change everything back the way it [...]

For those of you that don’t know this - I was a beta tester of the original AdWords system at Google. Prior to AdWords and its auction process, advertisers would simply petition a Google sales representative each quarter for advertising inventory on a bundle of keywords. The process was utterly messy and unfair. Even when [...]