David Dunlap
Author Website: http://www.webhostmagazine.com
Bio: Over the past ten years David has been a prolific author of hundreds of blogs, commentaries and reviews found here on WebHostBlog.com , as well as WebHostMagazine.com and other sites around the Internet. David manages the daily operations at both WebHostBlog and Web Host Magazine & Buyer's Guide, and as the head editor, David uses his unique analytical skills to ensure that both sites maintain their integrity and tough, but fair minded, reputations. Prior to his active career analyzing the Web Host industry, David specialized in networking and communications for the U.S. government. David's expertise in traditional marketing and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has helped boost companies both inside and outside of the Web Host industry.
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Jun 26th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Commentary
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 [...]
Tags: facebook, social network, social networking, twitter
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Jun 24th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Future Trends
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 [...]
Tags: dedicated hosting, future trend, standard
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Jun 19th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Off Topic
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 [...]
Tags: copyright infringment, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kazaa, RIAA
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Jun 17th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: In the News
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, [...]
Tags: blacklist, dasient, malware, phishing sites
Posted in In the News |
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Jun 15th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Industry Experts
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 [...]
Tags: EU, ie, Microsoft
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Jun 10th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Commentary
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. [...]
Tags: customer service, teleco, telecoms
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Jun 3rd, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Commentary
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 [...]
Tags: blog titles, content, Marketing, ranksense, Search Engine Marketing, web surfng
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May 27th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Commentary
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 [...]
Tags: botnet, gumblar, malware, trojan
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May 18th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: General Information
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 [...]
Tags: Google, search engine, wolframalpha
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May 7th, 2009 |
By Dave |
Category: Commentary
I am going to switch things up a bit today. I think we have all heard the rallying cry, have good quality content and people will flock to you. Question is what is good content and more to the point, how do you begin on making it?
It is fairly vague is it not; “content sells,” [...]
Tags: content is king, writing content
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