Ever since Google mentioned the words “ranking signal” and “SSL” together people have been twisting this meaning and falsely believing they need to convert their website to SSL for SEO benefits – and fact of the matter is that this isn’t entirely true. There is ALOT more things you can, and should, be doing which […]
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Microsoft Joins In On The Fight Against Revenge Porn
Microsoft seems to be on the attack this week against all sorts of illegal online media. First with their release of PhotoDNA to all webmasters yesterday; and now with their announcement to join the fight against revenge porn. Microsoft will honor requests to remove revenge porn photos and videos taken out of Bing search results, […]
Microsoft Releases PhotoDNA To All Website Owners
Child pornography and sexual abuse images have always plagued the Internet and Microsoft has been working hard to help fix that. 6 years ago Microsoft started working on PhotoDNA – a cloud-based tool that utilizes a hash reference system to compare attributes of any given image with those of illegal ones. Law enforcement agencies have […]
Instagram Finally Has A Decent Desktop Search Experience
Instagram has completely revamped their desktop search experience – finally letting you search for posts and people based on hashtags and locations. Furthermore hashtags and locations now also have a dedicated landing page showing the top posts within that category or location. The revamp of the desktop search is an extremely welcome update – […]
Legitimate Emails Finally Surpass Spam Emails
For the first time in a very, VERY, VERY long time there have been more legitimate emails sent out then there have been spam emails sent out. For anyone who remembers spending hours sorting their various inboxes from spam email in the past years – this should be extremely exciting news. The information is based on Symantec’s […]
Google+ Photos Will Be Shut Down on August 1st, 2015
In an announcement early this week Google has announced the death of Google+ Photos – pronounced on August 1st. As of that date Google+ Photos will be shut down however all the photos you have uploaded to Google+ Photos will still be accessible on Google Photos (http://photos.google.com). So technically there shouldn’t be any actual downtime for […]
WordPress Market Share Is Almost 50%
When it comes to CMS platforms WordPress is by far the most popular – not only across my own client base but overall. A recent statistic by BuiltWith shows us just how popular. WordPress currently holds a 48% market share among all other CMS platforms. When it came to what version of WordPress webmasters used, […]
Google Offers Free Google Fiber for Affordable Housing Properties
Back in November of 2014 Google decided to take part in the Unlocking the Connection project intended to provide free internet to Austin’s public housing residents. Google stepped this up by offering to provide free Google Fiber connections for everyone, for 10 years. Today Google has announced that they are expanding that offer to all […]
jQuery 3.0 Alpha Has Launched
jQuery is still actively in-use across plenty of websites on the Internet – currently in use on 64% of the top million websites. The development team announced yesterday the launch of jQuery 3.0 Alpha. The new version is supported by all modern browsers – including the Yandex Browser from now on. The new HTML5 dataset […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 & […]
Twitter Removing 140 Character Limit for Direct Messages
In a surprising announcement Twitter has decided to remove their famous 140-character limit on direct messages. Tweets will continue to have the 140-character limit; however you will be free to maintain personal communication via direct messsaging without being forced to stick to a 140-character limit. Frankly this is a long overdue change. Direct messaging is […]
iOS 9 Safari Browser Will Feature Ad Blocking
According to a Nieman Lab report, Apple’s developer documentation for the new Safari browser features notice of content blocking extensions intended to offer a way to block various resources from a website. The direct quote from the documentation states: The new Safari release brings Content Blocking Safari Extensions to iOS. Content Blocking gives your extensions […]
Rackspace Wins Microsoft’s 2015 Hosting Partner of the Year Award
As an official Rackspace partner I’m excited to announce that Rackspace has won the 2015 Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. “As a five-time Microsoft Hosting Partner of the […]
25% Of Twitter Tweets Are Fake
The Georgia Institute of Technology ran a fairly interesting research project which determined that almost 25% of all tweets contain false information. Research staff parsed over 1% of all messages sent on Twitter for a period of 96 days and in the end over 60-million tweets were recording. Once the tweets were analyzed and fact-checked […]