We all know that Facebook is a social networking giant with over 750 million users. The enormous number of potential customers gathered in one place, have garnered the attention of small and large organizations alike. Facebook once was a place for simply messaging friends and viewing pictures of each other, but it has evolved into
The DotConnectAfrica (DCA), one of the organizations that have expressed interest to implement and manage “.africa” gTLD, has opposed plans to include “DotAfrica,” “DotAfrique” and “DotAfriqiya” top level internet domains in the List of Reserved Names, a move that would make the strings unavailable during the ICANN’s new gTLD application process in February 2012. In
Writing by Nick Stamoulis White hat SEO dictates that you take a blended approach to your link building. A diverse and consistent link building campaign demonstrates to the search engines your commitment to branding your site and building your online presence. It is important to make sure that your site isn’t flagged for trying to
Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor for the Internet, “the cloud” is a familiar cliché, but when combined with “computing,”
Twitter has just announced a key engineering hire today. Adam Messinger will be joining the company as Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering. Messinger was previously Vice President Development at Oracle, where he was responsible for managing the Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit, Oracle WebLogic Operations Control, and other web tier products. Prior to joining Oracle, he
Summary: In today’s ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT department isn’t considered the home of innovation and business leadership. Yet that might have to change as some of the biggest advances in the history of technology make their way into the front lines of service delivery. Here’s an exploration of the top five IT
Introduction: Social media’s rapid rise in recent years gave marketers exciting new tools for communicating with customers and prospects. Suddenly, established marketing tactics such as email were seen as old fashioned, one-way channels that consumers were increasingly likely to ignore. Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offered an alternative: two-way communication channels where
08/17/2011 | 09:00 AM Mozilla on Wednesday released what it billed as a faster and more stable version of its Firefox Web browser, version 6. One of the key changes in Firefox 6 was in the address bar, which now highlights the domain of the website a user is visiting, to thwart spoofing. “The address
In LinkedIn’s first earnings call as a public company, CEO Jeff Weiner revealed that LinkedIn is adding two new members every second, which is up from one member per second in November 2010. In Q2 alone, LinkedIn added 14 million members, after passing the 100 million mark earlier this year. Weiner also said that the
VeriSign [ http://www.verisign.com ] has announced its almost-annual price increases for .com and .net domain names. The wholesale cost from VeriSign for .com domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 on January 15, 2012 and the registry fee for .net domain names will increase from $4.65 to $5.11. The VeriSign fee doesn’t include