Archive for the 'Web Development' Category

New MSN Webmaster Tools Feature

Monday, October 29th, 2007

MSN will now notify you, when given your contact information, about which pages MSN thinks are the most important on your site as well as a yes/no if they think you are spamming. If yes you can go through a process to find out how and why. This is a nice feature to get some professional search engine feedback about your website and SEO tactics. If only Google provided this information; Hint Hint! You should check this out and all the other features available in both MSN and Google Webmaster tools. There is always something available that you will find valuable.

FireFox Vulnerability Exposed

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

At a recent ToorCon hacker conference in San Diego, a pair of hackers revealed a critical flaw found in Mozilla FireFox, the browser commonly referred to as the “safer” alternative web Browser to Internet Explorer. [more…]

Should you buy a .Mobi domain?

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Today domain registrars are pushing out a new TLD, and of course everyone will flock to protect their brand. But, will it make any real difference? [more…]

Google Offers Business Services

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Google has made the anticipated move into the business software market. The are starting off with a collection of the tools that already existed, but now put them together in a suite specifically for businesses, universities and non-profits. [more…]

Amazon.com Is The Ultimate Web 2.0 Company

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A recent Matt Cutts blog posting asked the question “who is your favorite Web 2.0 company?“. He then listed some of the new, great names out there like FireAnt, Magnolia, Newsvine and ProjectSpaces. But I don’t agree that a company must be in start-up mode to be a Web 2.0 company. I believe that any company moving the Web in a better direction using new technologies like Web Services and AJAX is really a Web 2.0 company. I have seen Yahoo gain the label, which I agree with, but in my opinion there is a somewhat unsung hero in the Web 2.0 space, Amazon.com. [more…]

Mozilla Firefox 2 Delay Launch

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Mozilla, who recently celebrated their 200,000,000th download of FireFox has announced the delay of their upcoming Firefox 2 browser release until sometime in October of this year. [more…]

Dapper API Creator - Dapp

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Dapper API creator lets a developer extract content from any website and create a “black box” (they call it a Dapp) for any data source on the Internet. You can then take this data in an XML format and leverage it in any way you can think of. [more…]

Google Checkout Glitches

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Users of the online payment processing system known as “Google Checkout” have recently reported technical glitches. The service which some analyst say could pose a direct threat to the distinguished eBay and PayPal, is experiencing longer than anticipated delays to process orders. [more…]

Paul Robinett (AKA Renetto), YouTube Evangelist

Friday, August 11th, 2006

A few weeks ago, Paul Robinett discovered YouTube. He decided to post a couple videos reviewing other videos under the persona Renetto. Thousands of people watched the Renetto videos, and Paul at some point became a YouTube evangelist. [more…]

How to make money blogging

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

USWeb has a very popular program called Blogitive. Blogitive allows bloggers to earn money on their blogs by pushing out press releases. This is an effective way to earn money while blogging, without cluttering the sites with ugly banners or AdSense. [more…]