Media Temple Launches Managed Amazon Cloud Hosting

Media Temple’s suite of services are all focused on a similar task – managing your hosting platform and services so you can focus on your online business and online presence. As such it comes of little surprise to me that Media Temple has extended their management services to cater to Amazon Web Services customers – […]

Microsoft Introduces Advanced Demographic Targeting for Bing Ads

Bing has introduced much more in-depth demographic targeting options that Bing advertisers can now utilize. Advanced Targeting as Bing refers to it allows advertisers to segment their audience by age, gender, device type, and time of day. Your bids will then automatically adjust to ensure visibility when your audience is searching. US advertisers using Bing […]

If You Build It They Will [NOT] Come

This past July 4th I decided to stay in the city, and that spurred some severe annoyance before I discovered how many fireworks I can see from my rooftop. However well before I got to enjoy some beautiful less-than-legal firework shows from the top of my rooftop I had to eat – and that’s when […]

Twitter Now Displays Your Birthday

Twitter needs to be able to create better demographic breakdowns of their users, and as such they have introduced a new feature allowing Twitter users to enter and showcase their birthday on their Twitter profile. Now granted Twitter isn’t going to come out and say that they introduced this new feature to help improve their […]

The W3C Mobile Checker Is Live in Alpha Mode

The W3C has brought us a slew of awesome webmaster tools which many of us have used forever now. There was the HTML Validator, RSS Validator, CSS Validator, a Broken Link Checker, and now the W3C have added a new tool to their suite: the Mobile Checker.   The W3C Mobile Checker scans your website […]

SiteGround Launches July 4th Sale

SiteGround has kicked off their July 4th sale which will run all the way through the weekend – finally ending on Monday July 6th. The sale brings down the price of SiteGround’s hosting services by up to 70% with no coupon code needed. Simply follow the banner link below and you’ll automatically be brought to […]

WiredWest Wants To Bring Modern Broadband to Western MA

Recent FCC discussions have made one thing abundantly clear – towns should have the freedom to develop their own internet services. Well a month after the FCC makes that statement – we have WiredWest – a group of 22 Massachusetts towns who have come together to bring a modern broadband infrastructure to Western Massachusetts. The […]

The Hunger Games Pioneers .MOVIE Domain Name

As the new TLD’s that ICANN has released are slowly gaining in popularity – the entertainment sector is doing their part to help push the popularity of these new domain name extensions. The Hunger Games movie series has became the first to utilize the .movie domain name when they launched their brand new website located […]

Hivelocity Launches Brand New Server Line Codenamed Broadwell

Hivelocity, has launched a brand new server line this week that includes Intel’s brand new processor family, codenamed Broadwell. This newest generation of processors is Intel’s first Xeon based system-on-chip (SoC) and should quickly become a staple in the dedicated server market. The Intel Broadwell Xeon D-1540 includes 8 physical cores, 16 threads and the […]

Buyable Pins Have Launched for iOS Users In The US

Pinterest wants to eliminate the need to go searching for the product in the photo you’re looking at – so they’ve introduced Buyable Pins. Buyable Pins offer a blue “buy it” button which lets pinners immediately buy the product seen in the image. So far Pinterest has launched Buyable Pins for iOS users inside the […]

Facebook Has A Great Looking New Logo – And You Probably Never Even Noticed

Over night Facebook has updated their logo and chances are you had absolutely no clue about it. This is actually the first time that Facebook has changed it’s logo since 2004 now. The changes are slight, but they go a long way towards making the logo look cleaner and a bit more modern. The company’s creative […]

Webmasters: Do You Want The Ability To Compare Sites Within Google’s Search Console?

Google has launched a survey asking webmasters, online marketers, and SEOs to offer their feedback on a side-by-side comparison feature within the Google Search Console. The survey isn’t overly complicated and digs into how you would utilize this comparison feature, your role, and an option field where you can list the various websites that you […]

Namecheap Visualizes The Most Popular New TLDs

There are a TON of new domain name extensions out there these days – and considering how saturated the market became for .com domain names it was a good thing that ICANN introduced all these new TLDs. Right now there are hundreds of domain name extensions available out there so Namecheap decided to find out […]

Score 15% Off at Heart Internet for July 2015

Heart Internet has decided to bring back their coupon codes from April of this year – running them once more for the month of July 2015. First up is their 15% off coupon code good for Heart Internet’s cloud hosting solution. Simply use code [coupon code=”HeartInternet AFFHOST15″ /] during your checkout process. Next we have […]

Domain.com Buy More, Save More Promotion Extended!

Domain.com’s Buy More, Save More promotion which I first wrote about back in April of this year and which was supposed to expire by the end of the month has in-turn been extended all the way through the end of July 2015. [coupon code=”Domain.com BUYMORE15″ /] gives you 15% off on new products and services […]

Bluehost July 4th Sale Is Live Now!

Bluehost has decided to start the fireworks a bit early, kicking off their July 4th sale 3 whole days early. The Bluehost July 4th sale will last until July 7th, 2015 – 10am MST. During this time you can score unlimited hosting from Bluehost for just $3.49/mo when you sign up for a 3 year […]

UK2 Group Announces CloudFlare Partnership

Anyone that has worked with me on a consulting basis is probably well aware of my love for CloudFlare. It’s probably my immediate go-to tool to boost a websites performance and security. That said, we’ve also been long-time supporters of UK2 Group here on the Rapid Purple blog – so it’s with great excitement that […]

Bing Taking Over Google’s Job at AOL

In a rather surprising move Microsoft has decided to jump out of the digital ad sales market, signing a deal with AOL to take over Microsoft’s responsibility for sales of display, mobile and video ads across Microsoft properties in the markets of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. Over the […]

Java Updates Now Ask You To Make Yahoo Your Default Search Engine

Yahoo held their annual shareholder meeting last week which mentioned some pretty interesting things. Apart from the fact that Yahoo’s stock has jumped 25% last year, Chief Executive Marissa Mayer also announced a new partnership with Oracle which will now prompt anyone installing or updating their Java install to make Yahoo their browser’s default search engine & […]

Google’s Panda Refresh Is Still Coming & Still In A Couple Weeks

Back in the beginning of this month I had written about an upcoming refresh to the Google Panda algorithm – as announced by Gary Illyes during SMX Advanced. Originally he expected the refresh to start rolling out within two to four weeks of that post – however here we are at the end of June […]