The end for social networking as we know it
As the founders of social networking site MySpace are moved aside there are feelings that there will be a wave of job cuts following a decline in members, social networking initially boomed with start-ups quickly growing from nothing to millions of users.
However, this market has slowed down significantly and still the money making potential of [...]
Convert those visitors
It is the dream of website owner to get something from everything visitor to their site, whether this is advertising revenue or the selling of a product or service, the end result is the same, revenue.
All private and commercial websites need revenues if only to just pay for the up keep of the site, but [...]
Cutting down on web development time
Today some websites are so complicated that for many users they just take far too long to load, for some visitors this simply means pressing the back button, but for the website owner this means a lost visitor.
However, for many developers the pursuit for perfection this is a price that they are willing to pay. [...]
White House emails hacked
Despite all of the problems that surround the security of information, it would appear that the White House still has problems with their computer security as the email archives have been hacked several times over the past few months.
As this has been a problem in the past, the US set up the National Cyber [...]
Making the most of social networking
Despite many of the warnings, it seems that the majority of businesses are still failing to embrace the social networking scene. The thing is that this could be costing them new business connections and attracting new customers who feel that they are a hip and trendy company.
A lot of companies, who are active in the [...]
12 TB of YouTube data to be anonymous
It seems that finally Google has relented to the demands of the courts and handed over twelve terabytes of data from the user generated video site YouTube to the media giant Viacom.
The data initially requested was for a full database that contained the details of every single YouTube user with their ID and IP [...]
June 24, 2008Indie filmmakers to use YouTube
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June 9, 2008Virgin Media writes to down loaders
Subscribers with Virgin Media who like to download the odd bit of illegal music, film or software better be watching out for a letter to drop on their door mats, for their ISP have teamed up with the BPI to close down on the illegal file sharers.
This comes from the government’s plans to make [...]
April 9, 2008Google and the Olympic torch
Do Google filter out news that is sensitive to certain people? This is the question being asked of them, as on the day when the Olympic Torch relay passed through London, anyone would have thought that the whole thing went off without a hitch.
Yet other media certainly did not hold back on the coverage [...]
February 12, 2008Facebook a life sentence
Joining a social networking site like Facebook would normally be a great experience and most people, who have signed up and filled in their profiles have been very pleased with the results, by meeting new and old friends, some even use it for business.
But changes in the way Facebook is run have made some members [...]
Internet fails in Asia and Middle East
There has been an internet blackout that covers two continents, parts of Asia, Middle East and even parts of North Africa have been crippled, making some business struggle with other means of communications.
Apparently there was damage made to some undersea cables but there is no other information as to how this happened, but it is [...]
Software can check on your ISP
A not for profit company the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a smart piece of software which will show people exactly what is going on with the traffic problems if you are getting any that is.
The purpose is for website owners to be able to see where the traffic, or more to the point if [...]