Category Archives: Webmaster News

New ICANN Transfer Policy For Top Level Domains

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has added a new transfer policy for generic domain names which will now request the registrant who initiates a transfer from one registrar to another to receive and confirm an email from the present registrar regarding their transfer to the new company. In the past you would only […]

Google Officially Launches Mortgage Calculator

Back in December of 2014 I wrote about a custom mortgage calculator many of us have found within our search results. The mortgage calculator has come and went since then – showing for some people and not showing for others. However as of now Google has officially announced the launch of their mortgage calculator – meaning […]

Men – Pinterest Wants You!

Since day 1 Pinterest’s user base has been predominantly female and this worked for a while, however now Pinterest is looking to expand its search functionality to showcase more topics that they believe will appeal to men. That being said Pinterest has quiet the challenge ahead of them, since according to a comScore survey of Pinterest’s user […]

Google Earth Pro Is Now Free!

Free things these days are far and few in-between – and I do my best to try to find as many of those free things for all webmasters out there.That being said I am extremely excited to announce a product brand new to the free pricetag: Google Earth Pro. As of this weekend, the original $399 […]

Amazon WorkMail Getting Ready to Take On Google & Microsoft

Amazon has quietly been working on their very own corporate email and calendar service called WorkMail which is finally being given some publicity. The service is focused highly on security and ease of use and will obviously be powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). WorkMail is designed to be fully compatible with Microsoft Outlook and other e-mail applications […]

Important Stats From Facebooks 2014 Fiscal Report

Facebook released their 2014 financial report yesterday which showcases some interesting numbers. Numbers that directly argue every single statement ever made about the “evident decline in Facebook’s popularity”. To save you from having to read through the full report (unless you want to of-course) here are the top highlights. First the financials: Revenue for the […]

YouTube Now Defaults To HTML5 <video> Instead Of Flash

YouTube has been one of the first adopters of HTML5’s <video> tag. Over 3 years ago I remember being pleasantly surprised when my BlackBerry Bold 9930 was finally able to play embedded YouTube videos thanks to the browsers support for HTML5. Since then I have had my YouTube settings set to default to the HTML5 video […]

Ello Now Supports Audio & Video

Ello, a relatively new social network that launched as an invite-only beta in March of 2014 aimed at securing private data and providing an ad-free browsing experience has integrated audio & video post formats into the social network platform. This means you can now upload and/or share links directly to YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, SoundCloud and Mixcloud […]

NameCheap Announces MoveYourDomainDay 2015

In an effort lasting fight for internet freedom Namecheap has announced the date for their annual MoveYourDomainDay, initially launched in response to GoDaddy’s position on SOPA back in 2011. For every domain transferred or hosting plan purchased, up to 10,000, Namecheap will donate $0.50 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The donation amount goes up to $1.00 per […]

Facebook Aims to Minimize Fake Stories from Newsfeed

Fake news stories have always existed for a wide array of reasons. Sometimes someone just wants to badmouth a person or company; sometimes it’s just for laughs. Regardless what the reason behind it Facebook has had enough and they want these fake stories gone from your newsfeeds. That said Facebook is introducing a new feature that […]

Worst Passwords of 2014 Released

SplashData has published their yearly list of worst passwords showcasing what were some of the worst passwords of 2014. SplashData collected together data about millions of stolen passwords that were posted online and compiled them to form the 2014 list. That being said looking through this list there are some hilariously weak password choices, and clearly Ford Mustang […]

Google Suspends Sales of Google Glass to Focus On Future Glass Versions

Sadly Google has decided to stop sales of the Google Glass project in it’s current form. The Exlorer program that originally allowed someone to buy Google Glass for $1500 is no more; and all units have been pulled so as I write this you unfortunately will not be able to run out and grab a unit. […]

Google Domains Launches Public Beta

Google domains first launched back in August of 2014 and I was lucky enough to get access to the private beta of Google Domains which not only let me enjoy it for myself – but I was lucky enough to have plenty of invites that I shared among all of you. As of Tuesday of […]

Facebook Reports Video Content On The Rise

Facebook recently made a post reflecting on some of the statistics of videos posted and played on Facebook. There’s some great information here for all marketers so I wanted to quickly summarize their post and bring attention to a few key things. Firstly – there are significantly more videos being created and shared now than […]

Yahoo Search Use Catching Up to Bing

Back at the start of December 2014 I had written about the increasing use of Yahoo search – primarily thanks to Firefox. As usual this was all based on the latest StatCounter statistics and the final numbers for December 2014 have now been published, with Yahoo claiming 10.4 percent of the US search share, up from […]