September 8th, 2009 by admin
A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.
Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. [...]
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September 2nd, 2009 by admin
I’m always intrigued by backup tools for Web services that don’t really need backup. TweetSaver is no exception. This paid service backs up (almost) everything you’ve ever posted to Twitter, along with private messages and replies from other users. It then adds an extra layer of utility on top of it, like a search tool [...]
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August 23rd, 2009 by admin
More proof that blogging is smart business. Just make sure that whoever is blogging is a good writer and is committed to being consistent.
Otherwise, it will be a waste of time. You can either have your developers include a blog in your web experience or use free tools like Wordpress to link to [...]
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February 20th, 2009 by admin
Yahoo’s been arguing for years that its two main advertising businesses, search and display, are stronger together than separately, but a new development Wednesday could illustrate just how much truth there is to that statement.
Traditionally, search ads combine a short amount of text with a Web link, but Yahoo is testing the use of display [...]
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February 10th, 2009 by admin
A free Web site and hosting from Microsoft? It’s true.
(Credit: Microsoft)
The words “free” and “Microsoft” don’t often appear in the same sentence, so imagine my surprise at discovering this deal: a free custom domain name, free Web hosting, free e-mail accounts, and more.
As you might expect from the name, Microsoft Office Live Basics has a [...]
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February 10th, 2009 by admin
Transferring a large file isn’t always easy. When e-mail won’t work (which it often doesn’t for files of any heft), you can burn to a disc or send a file piecemeal, but neither option provides much value to the person who just needs your file now, and simply.
Online file-sharing services can transfer large files [...]
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October 27th, 2008 by admin
Facebook likes to trumpet the value of “trusted referrals“–recommendations and ads with the endorsements of members of your friends list. But a new study from Jupiter Research, commissioned by analytics company BuzzLogic, says that consumer purchases are more likely to be influenced by what they read on a blog versus what their social-networking rosters recommend.
Half [...]
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October 26th, 2008 by admin
I’ll never forget my online correspondence with Comcast’s Frank Eliason earlier this year. The small Twitter message I sent chronicling my woes in setting up my new Internet connection got an immediate response from him. As “Director of Digital Care” for Comcast, Eliason frequently goes above and beyond the call of duty by tracking and [...]
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October 25th, 2008 by admin
LinkedIn on Thursday announced the launch of LinkedIn Surveys, a service from the LinkedIn Research Network that allows market researchers and investors to access the site’s 30 million professionals for market intelligence by creating a survey, and either opening it up to the entire LinkedIn community or targeting a select group.
In order to increase the [...]
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