Sucuri just released notice of a Stored XSS vulnerability within Akismet 3.1.4. Unfortunately for this scenario Akismet is installed by default across millions of WordPress websites – and not every webmaster keeps their website scripts updated (even though you all should!). The current vulnerability affects only those websites who are running Akismet v3.1.4 or lower, […]
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GoDaddy Launches 3 New Services for Canadian Small Businesses
Following up on GoDaddy’s report showcasing that the majority of small businesses do not have a website – GoDaddy has launched three new services in their Canadian market geared towards helping small businesses create and manage their online presence. The new additions are: Personal Domains – which let you easily point domains to 16+ social […]
Yahoo Donates 200 Servers to Howard & UTEP Universities
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo decided that they must do their part to encourage more diverse populations to pursue careers within the computer science and technology fields – so they donated 200 servers to Howard University and The University of Texas at El Paso – two universities known for their diverse student makeup. This […]
Adobe & Dropbox Join Forces For Better PDF Management
Adobe & Dropbox have announced a new partnership this week allowing Dropbox & Adobe Acrobat to integrate together. In turn you get the ability to manage, edit, and share your PDF files anywhere and at anytime. Here’s a breakdown of what the Adobe & Dropbox integration make possible: Highlight, annotate, and edit your PDF documents […]
Facebook Begins Testing Integrated Shopping Section
There have been talks about Facebook looking for ways to integrate shopping into your newsfeeds – and as of this week we finally have something tangible to play with as Facebook starts live-testing a way for businesses to sell their products right within the Facebook app! On Facebook we’ve seen that people are coming to our […]
Facebook Begins Testing Reactions – The Extension To The Like Button
Remember when you started hearing all this hype about Facebook making an unlike button? Well this week Facebook started testing out what they actually meant when they mentioned an alternative action to the Like button: Reactions. A Reaction does alot more than just a like – it lets Facebook start to learn what you really like, and […]
Check Out Google’s Hour Long Discussion On Duplicate Content
Earlier this week Google’s John Mueller held a video hangout to discuss the SEO communities most popular topic: duplicate content. The hangout ended up lasting over an hour, featuring roughly 20 minutes worth of presentation and a 40 minute Q&A session. I won’t even attempt to summarize all the different questions and concepts that get […]
Twitter Starts Curating Itself Via The Launch of Twitter Moments
Earlier this week Twitter announced the launch of Moments – something that I think is a tremendous sign towards where Twitter is heading – and I love it! See Twitter Moments is basically the answer to any Twitter user who has ever sat back and thought to themselves that things were just way too fast paced. Twitter […]
Google Adwords Display Network Is Going 100% Viewable CPM
Google has recently announced a rather huge change towards what they consider a view when it comes to Google Adwords advertising. Subsequently that change for Adwords advertisers also applied a huge change in the income for Google Adsense publishers. In a nutshell Google has stated that they are working on making sure that advertisers only have to […]
The USDS Publishes An Official Style Guide for US Government Websites
Earlier this weekend a team of developers and designers that makeup the U.S. Digital Service along with web design company 18F got together and published the U.S. Web Design Standards – a set of webdesign guides, style groups, and assets that serve as a guide for creating official U.S. federal government websites. The U.S. Web […]
GoDaddy Partners With Dropmysite To Offer Cloud Backup Solutions For Small Business Owners
GoDaddy has joined forces with cloud backup provider Dropmysite to offer cloud-based website backup solutions for small and medium sized businesses. Dropmysite will automatically back up a customers website daily and securely using 256 bit military grade Advance encryption standards (AES) encryption. If any issue arises Dropmysite will allow the customer to easily and quickly get their […]
SingleHop Rolls Out ColoPlus & Gives Away Free Virtual Private Clouds
Want to score some space for your server in the latest, $30 million data center in Chicago? SingleHop has rolled out their ColoPlus service offering some truly hybrid hosting environments across global datacenters on a highly scalable cloud platform. PLUS when you sign up for ColoPlus SingleHop provides for you a virtual private cloud to use […]
The Twitter Button Is Changing For The First Time Since 2011
The Twitter button we’ve come to use and love has been essentially the same since 2011 and can currently be found on thousands of websites all around the interwebs – and now it’s time for a major change. First off is the visual updates which change the tweet and follow buttons from the old gradient effect […]
Skype Calls Will Seamlessly Work Inside Microsoft’s Edge Browser
Skype is focused on making their users experience on Skype as simple and streamlined as possible – and as such they have announced an upcoming ability to utilize Skype calls within Microsoft’s new Edge browser without the need for any plugins. Starting later this year, Skype users will be able to make voice and video […]
Instagram Is Up To 400 Million Active Monthly Users
Just recently I uploaded a video specifically talking about the many benefits to Instagram and why business owners should be out there creating pages for their businesses and staying active on the Instagram community. In that video a few numbers got thrown around, such as “68% of Instagram users interact with brands while on Instagram“. Well […]
GoDaddy Small Business Survey Shows Majority Of Small Businesses Do Not Have A Website Yet
GoDaddy commissioned a Small Business Survey recently intended to show how small businesses are using the Internet – and considering how much I focus on small businesses actually using the Internet I was extremely excited to look at the results. 4,000 small businesses, with less than 5 employees, across Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, Turkey, […]
Google Drive Web Hosting Will Be Shut Down By August 2016
Back in 2013 Google introduced the capability for users and developers to utilize their Google Drive account as a web hosting service, and on August 31st of 2016 Google will be shutting that capability down. Fact is that there are plenty of web hosting providers out there along with countless options for free or low-cost […]
360 Degree Video Comes to Facebook
360 degree videos are definitely kicking off. Virtual tours on Google Maps, 360-Degree videos on YouTube, and now, 360-Degree videos are available on Facebook! As of Wednesday, September 23, users on PCs and smartphones can view 360-degree videos. Check out the following Star Wars clip, one which lets you look around the desolate, war-torn wasteland of a […]
Farewell X3 – You’ve Served Us Well
The X3 interface for cPanel has been with us webmasters for what feels like forever – and if you’re hosting provider has been using cPanel than you’re one of those webmasters too. Alas today the plans for its official deprecation have been laid out – and the interface that we have become exceptionally used to […]
Facebook Notes Finally Gets An Overhaul
Facebook notes originally came out back in 2006 – and I’m pretty sure it never really got an update since then. As such notes never really stood out and never gained any traction – however Facebook has always wanted to have some form of blogging network to call their own. Facebook has always been a […]