Web.com announced yesterday their purchase of Network Solutions at roughly $561 million. Network Solutions was the original domain name registry for the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, controlling the .com, .org. and .net top-level domain names. Until ICANN was formed in 1998, Network Solutions was also the only place that users could buy a domain name. What […]
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Google Plus One ‘async’ Code Minified
Earlier on last week I had told you about the recent changes made to the Google +1 button and the launch of the new asynchronous button snippet. Thomas over at Web2.0Hub has taken the new ‘async’ snippet and minified it to make it even smaller. Not sure what that means? Essentially minification is the practice of removing […]
Schema.org Workshop Announced
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Almost 2 months ago I wrote to tell you about the launch of Schema.org – a project aimed at creating and supporting a common set of schemas for structured data markup. Microsoft recently announced the first Schema.org workshop to be held in Silicon Valley on September 21st, 2011. Bing describes the event as a “working session” […]
Google Plus Platform Preview Launches
In an attempt to keep everyone up-to-date, and to allow sufficient beta testing of new features, Google has announced the Google+ Platform Preview – allowing you to test updates to the Google+ button before they launch to all users on your site. When you’re logged into the account you’ve enrolled with and you visit a page […]
Click-to-Call Enhancements Announced for Google Adwords
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]On July 29th Google sent out an email to most Adwords advertisers announcing enhancements to their click-to-call functionality in AdWords ad text. This is important information to read and understand as an Adwords advertiser. Many businesses currently list their phone numbers in their ad copy – which isn’t a bad thing – however […]
The Internet in 1995
Remember 1995? The times of Netscape, blinking text, websites designed in tables, watching videos in 160 x 120 in Realplayer? It’s quiet interesting to see how far we’ve come. Jail sentences for porn site owners? Not these days. Take a look at the below video done by MTV back in 1995 discussing the internet.
Happy System Admin Day!
[frame align=”left”] [/frame] Today marks the 12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. Thank them for all the times they have fixed your computers, helped you when you forgot your own passwords, or couldn’t open that […]
Google Introduces New Page Speed Service
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Yesterday Google announced their latest innovation to help out everyone’s need for speed, the Google Page Speed Service. To directly quote Scott Knaster from the Google Code Blog: Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up […]
Google Updates The ‘Plus One’ Button
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]The Google +1 button is fast becoming an essential “must have” for most site owners – which means that Google wants to provide all these site owners the best experience possible. Facebook has hired some of the best guys out there to focus purely on making everything load as fast as possible, including […]
Blackberry for Business – Small Business Chat Video Recap
Last night Blackberry for Business hosted their very first Twitter chat, #BBSMBchat. I had written about it last week – but I know that not everyone was able to join in on the discussion – some had prior arrangements and some simply do not use Twitter. For those of you that were not able to attend, as-well […]
LinkedIn Job Application Plugin Goes Live!
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]LinkedIn has launched a new plugin that allows companies to place an “Apply with LinkedIn” button on their job listings pages. thus allowing all those hunting for a job to apply for positions using their LinkedIn profiles as resumés. Any company can embed the plugin by adding an eight-line code snippet to its […]
Google Launches Adwords Express
Today Google announced the launch of Adwords Express. AdWords Express is designed to help local businesses that aren’t already AdWords advertisers create effective campaigns easily, and within 5 minutes. Product Manager Kiley McEvoy uploaded a short video on Youtube to help explain what Adwords Express really is. To start simply visit http://www.google.com/awexpress, fill out some basic […]
Join Me Monday For The BlackBerry #BBSMBchat
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]This coming Monday, July 25th, BlackBerry will be hosting their very first Twitter chat which will be a unique opportunity to share stories, swap advice, and network with other small business owners. It will focus on the issues that small business owners face, how they stay current in an ever-evolving world of technology, and […]
Dwolla Introduces Online Cash Payments
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]It seems just a few days ago we blogged about how selling online is getting easier and easier, and now here comes Dwolla – a new comer to online payments who aims to offer yet another option to buying and selling online – allowing people to pay by cash straight from their bank […]
Google Plus Business Profiles Are Coming Soon!
Christian Oestlien posted an update on his Google+ account today regarding Google+ Business Profiles. Since the Google Business Profiles concept has leaked out to the masses there have been tens of thousands of requests to be one of the first beta testers of these business profiles. Due to this demand Google actually made the decision […]
More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Last week, Google CEO Larry Page used the phrase ”more wood behind fewer arrows” to describe an ongoing effort to make Google a sleeker, more focused company. Page went on to declare the products Google Health and Google PowerMeter were the first victims of that effort. Today, Google has announced that it’s also shuttering […]
Fund Your Adwords Campaign Via The Google Credit Card
Building up capital for a small business can be a bit of a hassle sometimes, and having the correct cash-flow at exactly the correct time to launch new advertising campaigns does not always happen. However what if you did have the necessary funds to launch an advertising campaign, say right before the holiday season? Before […]
Did Online Selling Just Get Easier?
When it comes to selling online, or ecommerce, there are 2 general solutions. You can go the route of obtaining your own merchant account that would work with an existing ecommerce solution such as Magento or osCommerce. Or you can develop a customized ecommerce solution tailored specifically to your needs and based around your own […]
Google Plus Invites For Everyone!
It’s been fairly quiet lately, sorry. With the new layout slowly coming together – and a ton of new projects happening all at once I have been rather swamped. I can’t lie though – I have wasted ALOT of my free time on Google+; building my circles, setting up my sparks, etc. It all takes […]
Google Multiple Sign-in Updated To Support 10 Accounts
If you’re anything like me chances are you find yourself using more than one Google account. I have my own personal account, 2 different work accounts, as well as my Rapid Purple accounts hosted on Google Apps. All in all it comes up to around 6 different accounts – and checking things quickly used to […]