• Hotmail Officially Rolled Into Outlook
    [May 9, 2013] In the late 90s, Hotmail was the most popular online email service available. Though Yahoo email and Gmail later arrived to give the service significant competition, Hotmail remained widely used for over 16 years. Now, Hotmail has become another relic of the early internet.
  • Digg Finds That Users Don’t Want Changes For Their Google Reader Replacement
    [April 16, 2013] You definitely know that Google is killing Google Reader. You’ve either seen or been part of the outrage. Google will be officially shuttering their popular (but not popular enough) product on July 1st, but as you would expect they’re slowly removing its presence to help ease us all into the transition.
  • New Digg RSS Reader Will Be Fast, Simple, and Work Well With Social Media
    [March 26, 2013] Just hours after Google made the unsurprisingly unpopular decision to kill off Google Reader on July 1st, Digg announced their plans to build their own RSS reader – one that will serve as a replacement both in functionality and in spirit. Although Digg said that they were “confident [they] can cook up a worthy successor,” [...]
  • Name.com Caught Hijacking Non-Existent Subdomains
    [March 5, 2013] Name.com has been caught hijacking non-existent subdomains in an effort to send the traffic to domain parking pages–where they make money from the clicks.
  • The Push For Faster, Cheaper internet
    [February 12, 2013] The United States has a problem – our Internet costs far too much for speeds that barely amount to anything. The FCC engineered a plan to get us on the right track with the National Broadband Plan, but not a lot has come of it yet. Now one Internet fairness proponent has come out swinging [...]
  • Hardware Tip – HP Performance Advisor
    [January 21, 2013] Something new from HP to kick off 2013 – HP Performance Advisor, designed to keep your harwdare performing… as seen in this fast paced overview of the benefits of HP PA for workstation’s performance. Performance Advisor notifies users when components like memory are not being used properly and offers suggestions to quickly improve the performance [...]
  • Google Now Just Might Be Coming To Chrome
    [December 13, 2012] Google Now may soon be part of the Chrome web browser. A note was discovered on the Chromium (the open source project on which Chrome is based) site, indicating that such an integration is being buit.
  • How to Tip ? Removing a Pesky Virus from Your PC
    [November 19, 2012] Oh the joy of it… out of the blue your PC presents you with a scary screen, locks you out of everything and renders your machine (and productivity) useless – yes indeed, the virus! It happens to everyone at some time, even with protection, or apparent protection. That’s what happened to me a couple of days ago although luckily I have a laptop, iPad, and smartphone to continue working and staying in touch with the rest of the world. Perhaps most important though, the other devices enabled me to quickly conduct research in order to rectify the situation. And so, a few tips that I thought I’d share just in case this happens to your or someone you know and you have trouble getting back up and running (disclaimer, I’m no IT guy and this may not resolve every issue but it may likely help you somewhat).
  • IIS 7: Allow One IP Address, Block All Others
    [November 1, 2012] Today I found myself having to configure IIS under Windows Server 2008 and I needed to restrict access to a specific directory by IP address. It was quite tricky to figure out how to do this due to Microsoft's idiotic way of presenting what could easily be a straight forward user interface operation...
  • Reverse Domain Name Hijacking: Why UDRP Reform is Needed
    [October 9, 2012] Reverse Domain Name Hijacking is "a disgusting practice?", according to Rick Schwartz (aka the Domain King), and co-founder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C.. "I always think about the mom and pop with one domain and their entire lives wrapped up in it. Along comes a bully and they are out of business. Robbing these folks of their dreams and livelihoods. It's sickening when you look at it like that. That's what really lights my fuse. I can handle a loss, they can't. That's why laws need to be written. Not to protect domainers, but to protect the masses." Mr. Schwartz is not alone. According to my research, many in the domain name industry, as well as those outside the industry, feel the same way about Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.
  • How to Provide Google Analytics Access
    [September 14, 2012] If you are a site owner or manage your company's website, inevitably, you will have to grant access to your site's analytics. I find myself walking new clients through the process of granting access to Google Analytics so often that I thought it would be a good idea to document the steps needed.
  • Payer Promotion API Introduced By Facebook
    [August 15, 2012] Facebook has been playing around with Payer Promotion for a while now. It lets app developers on Facebook offer special discounts on in-game items to first-time players and other eligible users. Facebook claims that it helps to increase payer conversion and revenue. Now they're making it easier for everybody to implement.
  • OpDemand Simplifies Cloud Management
    [July 25, 2012] OpDemand is a Colorado-based startup that aims to improve ease of use for cloud developers. They announced General Availability of their cloud infrastructure management platform in April, which allows software development teams to leverage raw cloud infrastructure without being overwhelmed by technical complexity. More recently, they announced an upgrade to the platform that allows developers to collaborate and share management capabilities within the cloud environment.
  • Know When Your Favorite Store Is Open With The Google Places API
    [July 6, 2012] Out of all the APIs that Google has released updates for this year, it seems that Google Places is the one they love the most. It has consistently received the biggest and best updates that really help developers take advantage of the powerful tools it offers. The latest update further solidifies the fact that Google is playing favorites.
  • comScore Search Rankings: Yahoo Stops the Downward Spiral in May
    [June 14, 2012] comScore released its search engine rankings for the United States for May 2012 today and, as far as month-to-month changes go, very little has in fact changed among the market shares claimed by the top search sites. For once, that's good news for Yahoo.
  • Google Knowledge Graph Increasing Number Of Searches
    [May 31, 2012] Earlier this month, Google announced Knowledge Graph, which it considers its way of providing results about "things" rather than "strings" or keywords.

  • IBM: New Software Helps Enterprises with Mobile & Cloud Computing
    [May 17, 2012] During the recent IBM Impact 2012 Conference, the company made several announcements. Among them were the company's introductions of new software systems primarily focused on mobile and cloud computing.
  • Google Publishes HTML And CSS Style Guide
    [May 3, 2012] I have a good friend who defines himself as a street coder. He taught himself all the code he knows and he sometimes uses strange code that nobody would ever think to use. It gets him by and sometimes is even better, but there are standards for a lot of reasons. It's especially helpful when you have teams of coders, because nothing is worse than two guys working on the same application using two different styles of code.
  • Looking At Startup Jobs In The IT Field
    [April 20, 2012] No doubt startup jobs are the hot thing right now. In fact, in 2011 startup job posts increased by almost 25%. There were more than 500 executive level job advertised in those posts. Very impressive! So the questing you have to be asking yourself; where are these job?
  • Mozilla Creating A Video Conferencing System
    [April 5, 2012] Mozilla is steadfast on its march to replace every application we use today with something that can be run from within your Web browser. After conquering the MMO space, they are gunning at Skype and other video calling services.
  • Feds Deciding What To Do With Megaupload Data
    [March 23, 2012] Carpathia Hosting, the hosting solutions company that was used to store the data on the former file-sharing site Megaupload, made a statement this week indicating it has been unable to figure out what to do with the Megaupload data on its servers, and is seeking a federal ruling on the matter. The data has been kept in a legal and financial limbo since the site was shut down by authorities in January. Carpathia is still bearing the cost of hosting the data on its servers, yet is unsure of the legal ramifications of deleting it.
  • Cloud Computing Creating Millions Of Jobs
    [March 5, 2012] According to a new study by IDC, the growth of cloud computing is on track to create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. IDC's research, which was commissioned by Microsoft, predicts revenues from cloud innovation could reach $1.1 trillion per year by 2015, which, combined with cloud efficiencies, will drive significant organizational reinvestment and job growth.
  • Google Advises the Use of Video Schema.org Markup
    [February 23, 2012] Google has now launched video support for schema.org and is directing webmasters to use it to describe their videos on the web.
  • Google Indexes AJAX and Javascript Comments
    [January 5, 2012] If you use the Facebook Comment Box for your website, your readers' content may now affect your Google PageRank. This is big news because Google is indexing the AJAX or JavaScript code on your website, which previously wasn't picked up by search engines. SEOs may reconsider their earlier advice to avoid these services as indexed comments will provide fresh content appeasing Google's algorithm changes, such as query deserves freshness (QDF).
  • Developers Getting Excited About The New Kindle
    [December 6, 2011] The introduction of the Kindle Fire has seemingly heated up the running for the king of Android tablets.