DreamHost has announced that it has joined the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coaltion), a group that ensures the continued growth of the Internet infrastructure industry. DreamHost joins fellow global and U.S. Internet infrastructure providers in supporting the i2Coalition and its mission to put forward a better Internet for all by giving a unified voice to those building the […]
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Yahoo Search Use Is Increasing
Google has been the default search engine on a wide array of browsers for quiet a while – and surely this helped Google hold the number 1 spot in search engine popularity for quiet a while. However with the recent change by Mozilla to use the Yahoo search engine as the new default search tool […]
Mozilla Firefox is Coming to iOS
While I can run Safari, Chrome, Opera, and a plethora of other browsers on my iPhone – Mozillas Firefox has sadly always been missing from the iOS suite of devices. Android users got Firefox back in 2011, Apple users however have been waiting this whole time. In the past Mozilla never seemed to wish to […]
Top Searches of 2014: Bing
Much like Yahoo recently did; Bing is also taking a look back at 2014 with their own list of top searches for 2014. Unlike Yahoo however Bing isn’t providing a general list – instead they have created a wide array of different categories allowing you to see the top movie searches, top celebrity searches, and […]
Top Searches of 2014: Yahoo
As 2014 comes closer to it’s end Yahoo has published their Top 10 searches for the year. These lists are always a great way to look back at the major events during the year that really struck the interest of internet users amongst the world. How exactly does Yahoo compile this list? The company states , […]
Media Temple Launches Google Apps for Work
Media Temple has partnered with Google to offer Google Apps for Work to its customers, the company announced Wednesday of this week. Through the new partnership, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Hangouts will be fully integrated with Media Temple’s premium web hosting and cloud services, and supported by its 24/7 phone […]
New gTLDs for December 2014
December has some interesting new domain name extensions coming out. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. December 10: .auction, .business, .immo, .network, .pizza, .software December 18: .whoswho December 24: .rehab
Facebook and Google Make Up 80% Of All Social Logins
As a regular internet user chances are that you’ve logged into a website or two using one of your social profiles. These days you can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, and a slew of other social profiles to login almost anywhere. However while it might be cool to offer your users the ability to login […]
Bing Rolls Out Carousel for Local Search Results
As Google removes the carousel from their local search listings; Bing has been spotted adding a similar carousel to their own local search results. Originally spotted by search analyst Roman Fitch of CPC Strategy, the Bing carousel is remarkebly similar in format and usability to the old Google Carousel. Take a look at the below comparison: […]
Yandex Releases New Browser Version
Being based out of New York City here in the States it’s easy to overlook Yandex – Russia’s premier search giant. However the search giant is far from being forgotten as they announce the release of a new alpha version of its browser. Yes I know – They have a browser? Yep. Since 2012 Yandex has been […]
Bing Updates Homepage, Goes HD
Bing made a few significant visual improvements to their homepage over this weekend – and as someone who utilizes a 37″ Samsung HDTV as his at-home monitor – I love every single one of them. First up the images that most of us absolutely love about Bing will now be wide-screen and HD! You should see […]
Icecream Apps Launches Free PDF Converter
Back in July of this year I introduced Iceream Apps to our Free Webmaster Resources Directory – listing their 3 initial applications: Media Converter, PDF Split & Merge, and the Icecream Image Resizer. As of this weekend Icecream Apps has launched another freeware application called PDF Converter, a great tool for converting a range of […]
Free SSL Certificates Coming Next Year?
As the interweb slowly moves over to HTTPS from the standard HTTP a new venture between Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, Cisco, the University of Michigan and IdenTrust has formed Lets Encrypt – a new authority out to attempt to completely eliminate the headaches and costs associated with the switch. See switching your website over to SSL has […]
MPAA Gets Fed Up With Piracy, Launches Own Site Listing Where To Watch Movies Online
In their continued effort to combat piracy the MPAA has launched a new website geared towards finding you legal methods to watch your favorite movies and TV shows online.
Google Launches New Features to Improve Online Shopping Campaigns
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, and Christmas and New Years coming up soon after Google wants to make sure their eCommerce advertisers can make the most of the holiday season through their shopping campaigns. As such they have introduced a slew of new features specifically designed to help users boost their marketing campaigns. First up […]
Yahoo Becomes the New Default Search Engine for Firefox
Google Chrome obviously defaults to their own Google search engine. Internet Explorer defaults to the Bing search engine. So it was only appropriate that Mozilla default to a search engine that wasn’t their direct competitor – i.e. Google. As of yesterday night Mozilla has made Yahoo the new default search engine for the Firefox browser. […]
NYC Looks to Replace Payphones With Wi-Fi Hotspots
While payphones aren’t nearly as popular as they once used to be – they’re still at strategic places all over New York City and the surrounding boroughs. Alas these days they rarely get much use – however a new project dubbed LinkNYC is looking to change that by converting New York City payphones into Wi-Fi […]
Links Finally Return to Twitter Direct Messages
For quite a while now Twitter users have been unable to send links to fellow followers via direct messages. Fast forward over a year and Twitter has finally returned the feature to their private messaging system allowing everyone to send links to their followers and friends. At the time that links were first removed from Twitter […]
Facebook Looking to Reduce Promotional Content in Newsfeed
tarting in January of 2015 Facebook is looking to rework how often promotional content from Pages you follow will appear in your newsfeed. It seems Facebook asked a few hundred thousand …
Google Removes Carousel From Local Listings
Back in June last year I had first mentioned the introduction of the carousel display for Google local listings which was loved by many business owners allowing alot more businesses to be on the first page for a search result. Sadly Google has officially dropped the black carousel user interface from their local listings. So now […]