Earlier on this year Google incorporated carousel search results for mobile users browsing for specific news events and topics. Originally the carousel worked solely off of rich snippets from a websites articles – showcasing various articles related to your search term. Well yesterday Google announced, with no real fan-fare, that the carousel will now also […]
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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 […]
Test Out The New Transparent Youtube Player in TestTube
The transparent video player that YouTube is testing is pretty awesome; however forcing YouTube to let you try it out took some work. Luckily the new player is now available in TestTube – YouTube’s own experiment playground much like Google Labs used to be. Right now there are 2 “experiments” listed there, 1 for 4K videos […]
Verizon Buys AOL for $4.4 Billion
There’s been some speculation lately in the tech community that Verizon may acquire AOL – and this week that speculation was proven to be correct as Verizon announced it has purchased AOL for $4.4 billion, or $40 per share. Verizon’s vision is to provide customers with a premium digital experience based on a global multiscreen […]
Google Rejects Your Right To Be Forgotten About 60% Of The Time
Google’s Right to be Forgotten came into play over a year ago now thanks to a European court ruling forcing Google to comply with requests from individuals to remove their names from search results; and originally started off by by Spaniard Mario Costeja González who wanted Google to remove search results that pointed to online […]
Take Advantage Of These Resources from Google During Small Business Week
First off I have to apologize as this post is a couple days late. Small Business Week technically started on Monday, May 4th – which is also when the attached video was uploaded – however I got caught up with the small businesses I work with and didn’t get a chance to make this post. […]
PayPal Buyer Protection Will Cover Digital Goods Soon
PayPal made a huge announcement yesterday, without really letting many people know. As probably the leading place to make and accept payments online – operating in 203 markets and with 152 million active accounts (as of 2014 anyway) – PayPal holds a part in alot of transactions for tangible and intangible goods on the interwebs […]
Mozilla Wants You To Go HTTPS Or Else
Google kicked off the migration away from HTTP to HTTPS for most webmasters; and Mozilla aims to put the finishing fork into HTTP by announcing a new program which will essentially force webmasters onto HTTPS or else risk loosing various browser features. Removing features from the non-secure web will likely cause some sites to break. So we […]
YouTube Now Has A Filter To Search For 360 Degree Videos
Late month YouTube announced the launch of 360-degree videos for Android & desktop users – however finding 360-degree videos to watch on Youtube isn’t the easiest of tasks. Until now. YouTube has added a new search filter intended to help users find 360-degree videos to watch. The new filter works both for the Android […]
Linode Donates $1.2 Million Worth Of Servers to NJIT
According to an announcement late last week, Cloud hosting provider Linode has donated 420 servers valued at $1.2 million to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in an effort to support research and career development for their students. Being that Rapid Purple is New York based – this is pretty exciting news since NJIT is […]
YouTube Testing A New Transparent Video Player
As is the usual case with any Google brand – new things are always being tested and worked on. So while YouTube works to get their ad-free service up and running they’re also testing a new UI for their desktop video player. The new UI offers a transparent control bar which automatically hides when it’s […]
Amazon Files Lawsuit Against Fake Reviewers
Amazon has established themselves as the go-to source for not only online shopping but also for honest community based product reviews. As such a huge majority of Amazon’s traffic comes from people reading online reviews as they make their shopping decisions. However this popularity of Amazon reviews has a dark side – fake reviews. Fake […]
LinkedIn Acquires Lynda.com For $1.5 Billion
LinkedIn was always focuxed on helping professionals grow their careers – so last weeks announcement regarding the acquisition of online education company Lynda.com made total sense. First off some of my very first webdesign books were Lynda.com books from roughly 20 years ago – so it’s pleasant to see this company grow enough over the […]
YouTube Soon To Offer Ad-Free Version
Half way through the day yesterday as I was sorting through my constantly full inbox I noticed a new email from Youtube titled Updated YouTube Partner Terms – and there was something in that email that immediately caught my attention. We’re excited to build on this momentum by taking another big step in favor of choice: […]
Introducing The Perfect GIF – Hulu’s Own GIF Search Engine
GIFs are everywhere these days. Forum posts, Facebook comments, blog posts – people like animated GIFs. They’re entertaining, funny, and allow you to get your point across visually while not actually being in-front of the person you’re speaking to. Furthermore some of the most popular GIFs these days come from movies and television shows – […]
UK2 Group Adds Responsive Websites To Their Website Builder
Back in 2013 UK2 Group announced their latest website builder which back then allowed you to build web and mobile websites for your small business. Now that Google has announced their focus on mobile websites UK2 Group have upgraded their website builder to offer fully mobile responsive websites to all small and medium-sized businesses. The new builder […]
April Fools Jokes From Our Favorite Tech Companies
If you’re anything like me you’ve probably missed the fact that today is April Fools Day and probably didn’t even realize it was April already. This is THE day for practical jokes – and today’s tech giants have quiet the sense of humor. Let’s take a look at today’s practical jokes from our favorite tech […]
ServInt Joins Coalition to Reform Section 215 of USA PATRIOT Act
ServInt, a provider of managed cloud hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it has joined a coalition of more than 40 organizations demanding that the U.S. Congress reform Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act has been used as the legal basis for the National Security Agency’s bulk […]
Amazon Cloud Drive Goes Unlimited
Online storage is an ever-expanding place as everyone tries to offer more and more space. Amazon has decided to bypass the storage space wars by announcing two unlimited storage plans for it’s cloud based storage service – Amazon Cloud Drive. The plans focus on two specific scenarios. For those who have loads of photos, there […]
Welcome FREAK – Yet Another OpenSSL Vulnerability
It seems like every few months a new SSL vulnerability is pointed out – which I suppose makes sense with the recent popularity that SSL has gotten. Thanks Google. Alas let’s welcome FREAK – a new man-in-the-middle vulnerability discovered by a group of cryptographers at INRIA, Microsoft Research and IMDEA. FREAK stands for “Factoring RSA-EXPORT Keys” […]