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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]

I was recently asked (as in recent, this morning) why do some people use Web hosting age as a form of litmus test as far as gauging hosting performance?
Well it’s not necessarily the test, there are a few hosts who have been around for a while and are still horrible, but for the most part [...]

Purchased in 1999 by Yahoo! GeoCities was one of the largest free web hosts in the world. However, GeoCities has closed its doors. No fanfare, no large announcements, GeoCities went down without so much as yelp.
In the past two and a half years however, GeoCities has definitely fallen making its closing innevitable. In 2006, GeoCities [...]

In their blog, security firm Finjan discusses how a single team of cybercriminals are able to control one of the largest botnet networks on planet. The botnetwork is over 1.9 million computers and continues to grow. 1.9 million computers!
Let’s distance ourselves from the fact that this is criminal activity and the operations are of illegal. [...]

It is an interesting thing, security. You know security use to mean you have yourself a firewall and anti-virus software and you are fine and dandy. This might have worked a decade ago when tons of sensitive data such as personal records, credit cards and the like was not up for grabs.
Even with the need [...]

Do no-follow tags actually help or hinder your search engine efforts?
Last year, SEOMoz surveyed SEO professionals and one of those questions mirrored the one above. And the findings were interesting.
50% of respondents stated that no-follow tags help a web site, 40% said no and 10% where undecided. Although this stat doesn’t seem too [...]