GoDaddy Outage Causes Downtime for Many Sites

This one is a bit surprising as I had always expected GoDaddy’s infrastructure to be rather secure and stable for the amount of websites they host. However, according to a few of my own clients, an update on GoDaddy’s twitter, and a post on TechCrunch – GoDaddy is down. This goes for both their hosted […]

Change The Top Google Search Result For Your Name

Norton has introduced a new tool called Norton Top Search that lets you control the top search result for your name, for free. To change your top search result, all you need to do is pick a URL that you would like to pop up first when people search your name. The form to do so, […]

Yola Launches Yola Gold Hosting Package

Yola’s newest hosting package, Yola Gold, is jumping into the game offering all the great hosting features you normally get with Yola, plus 10GB of space, and two new traffic generating tools: Traffic Builder and Local Boost. For any small business owner asking “How do I get found online?” – Yola Gold aims to be the answer. [frame […]

Bravenet Forum Styles Get Updated

Bravenet offers a free, easy, embeddable forum – and since the services release they have been working hard on improving the Bravenet Message Forum Service. To kick it off they have added the ability to create custom stylesheets for your forum – giving an advanced user more control over the look and feel of their […]

VerticalResponse Launches Social Dashboard

VerticalResponse has recently announced the launch of VerticalResponse Social – a new addition to their family of services which allows you to manage all of your email marketing AND social media marketing from one easy-to-use dashboard in your VerticalResponse account. [frame align=”left”][/frame] A great plus to this is that VerticalResponse Social takes the guesswork out of […]

Conditional Comments Are Gone In IE10

You might have heard mention of this going around the Internet for a few months now – as this was technically announced back in July on the IE Blog – however I just wanted to clear a few things up here. For starters make sure you understand what conditional comments are – and how that […]

More Wood, Even Fewer Arrows

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Remember a couple months ago I had mentioned that Google had plans to shut down Google Labs, and a series of other services in an effort to make Google sleeker and more focused?  Well the time has come. As of last night Google Labs is officially no more. Heading over to http://www.googlelabs.com now […]

Nike Shoegler’s

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Custom designed Nike sneakers have been around for ages, in-fact these aren’t the first Google themed Nike sneakers to come out. Daniel Reese has 2 designs for Google, and Google Chrome available for sale on his website, BrassMonki. These are however the first design officially made by a Googler -the sneakers were designed […]

StatCounter Launches Redesigned Site

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]StatCounter has been around for a while now, focused on offering in-depth traffic information about your website completely free of charge. Over the years the user community around StatCounter has greatly grown – and with this came the requests for new features and functionality; and ofcourse StatCounter listened. Roughly 9 months ago StatCounter launched a […]

Webmaster Central Hangout on Google Plus

Google has been quietly hosting weekly hangouts for webmasters allowing them to ask Google engineers various questions related to a specific topic chosen for each hangout. The next hangout is scheduled for Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 at 11:30am PDT for 1 hour, announced by Jenny Murphy earlier this morning. The topic for this hangout will be […]

GoDaddy Integration With Google Tools Broken

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]A post by mcarter88 on the Google Webmaster Forums has brought to light an issue with the integration of Google Webmaster Tools and GoDaddy Hosting. Back in 2007 Google and GoDaddy formed an integration deal where Go Daddy users will see the Google Webmaster Tools link right in their hosting control center, and can […]

Internet Explorer 9 Becomes The Most Secure Browser

To be honest I had to read the report twice before I could believe it. Internet Explorer has always had it’s share of security flaws (amongst many others) – and this is what made room for Firefox, Opera and Chrome to step in and give browser security the attention that IE wasn’t. The recent study […]

Beta620 Launched by NYTimes

[frame align=”left”][/frame]This past weekend the New York Times has launched Beta620, a public beta site for all of the NYTimes experimental projects. The purpose of these is to provide ample community testing and feedback to new features and functions which may later be implemented into the main NYT website. The beta site seems to be a […]

Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook, Starts RtoZ Media

Facebook Director of Marketing Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company, R to Z Media. RtoZ Media, will focus on helping companies become more social. “My goal is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new, and […]