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 […]
Category Archives: Internet News
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 […]
PHP 5.4 Released
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.0. Sadly however – most servers and hosting companies out there are still running PHP 5.2.x – so while the release of PHP 5.4.0 comes as great news, many of you probably won’t experience it for another year or so. Before we get […]
DomainTools Estimates 100 Million .Com Domains Active
According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by Verising has surpassed 100 million domains: 100 million actively registered domains is an
jQuery 1.7 Released
One of the internet’s most popular Javascript libraries has been updated last week, bringing jQuery up to version 1.7. jQuery 1.7 can now be downloaded from docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery. Alternatively, if you prefer a CDN, use any of the following URLs …
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 […]
RIP Steve Jobs
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Everyone already knows – news about his death spread around the world quicker than a wildfire. It was a feeling that many of us will never forget. For me – it happened on the train ride home from the office, as I updated my Blackberry News Feeds and saw it. Gizmodo’s post – […]
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 […]
Introducing HTML11
That’s right ladies and gentleman – if you thought HTML5 was the latest and greatest – Say hello to the <taste> tag, the <religion>, <touch>, <xray> and a whole set of new tags being introduced with HTML11. The mission of the HTML11 is to fulfill the promise of XML for applying HTML11 to a wide variety of […]
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 […]
Wix Launches Mobile Site Builder
Seemingly following in the footsteps of Google who has launched their own mobile website builder, Wix has done the same. Wix websites used to be the worst when it comes to the mobile web. The problem is that Apple does not support Flash on the iPhone and/or iPad due to some questionable policy. However we can […]
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 […]