Internet web hosting – then and now
Web servers All of the content on the Internet is stored on servers. A server is a machine much like a personal computer. When you save a file on your computer, that file is written to your hard drive....
Bill ensures emails, photos won’t die with you
When you die, should your loved ones have access to your Facebook, Yahoo and other online accounts? To become law in a state, the legislation would have to be adopted by the state’s legislature. If it all becomes law in...
Everybody had the next best thing
Everybody had a plan, an idea, a goal … and everybody had the next best thing. Competition on the internet was fast and furious. You had to move or get left in the dust. It’s not 1996 any more unfortunately....
Power, Pollution and the Internet
Jeff Rothschild’s machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt. The company had been packing a 40-by-60-foot rental space here with racks of computer servers that were needed to store...
Around the net in 1 Minute 90
The New Digg .. Says Bye Bye to Spammers ” .. complaints from spammers and marketers is encouraging for those who are rooting for Digg’s return to glory. “The fact that these folks are pissed off is a good sign,”...
Demand your data from Google and Facebook
Berners-Lee, the British born MIT professor who invented the web three decades ago, says that while there has been an explosion of public data made available in recent years, individuals have not yet understood the value to them of...
Blogging or Slogging
“Remember when ‘You’ve got mail!’ used to produce a moment of enthusiasm and not dread?” asks Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Now when it comes to blogs, she says, “people focus...
Traffic engagement & Conversions
Back in the day, I would hear my contemporaries going on and on about all of the millions of hits they were getting on their websites. Bragging about their high traffic numbers and selling themselves or their brand based solely...
Blocking unwanted traffic to your Website
Why would you ever want to start blocking unwanted traffic to your website? Read on, and discover the many reasons why you should — So, here you are. You just loaded your brand new website, or blog, set up...
Metadata – Meta Tags – A comprehensive list
Meta elements — are tags used in HTML or XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page. They are part of a web page’s head section. Multiple Meta elements with different attributes can be used on the same...
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