tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53581073664298177162012-02-16T10:29:45.476-05:00"Just weights and measures" is our business philosophy - all customers are treated the same in every respect, and we charge for the work we do, nothing more and nothing less.Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-39306114663537052402007-08-21T14:39:00.001-05:002007-08-21T14:39:22.830-05:00

"A few emails have come through about how user’s WordPress installations have been compromised, or where an attacker has found resources he/she shouldn’t have. This article will discuss some security techniques to better harden and secure your WordPress blog; this is especially effective in a hosted environment"Full ArticleTechnorati Tags: WordPress, Security, htaccessPowered by ScribeFire.

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-23003762612697251632007-08-21T07:19:00.001-05:002007-08-21T07:19:48.764-05:00

"System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless. Bastille is a software tool that eases the process of hardening a Linux system, giving you the choice of what to lock down and what not to, depending on your security requirements. It bundles many of the tasks routinely done to securely configure a Linux system into one

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-26984572817774300152007-08-13T06:23:00.001-05:002007-08-13T06:23:47.526-05:00

"Today we have two security-related releases available for both users ofour main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releasesinclude only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause anyplugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not toupgrade."WordPress AnnouncementDownload PageTechnorati Tags: WordPress, Security, UpdatesPowered by ScribeFire.

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-67117498099852690302007-08-09T09:26:00.001-05:002007-08-09T09:58:20.942-05:00

"Want to know why Google or Yahoo! ranks pages? If so this is the Firefox extension for you. SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results.Want to learn more? Read on:"http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html<!--google_ad_client = "pub-3414633802156360";

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-15524667527345668572007-07-18T06:29:00.001-05:002007-07-18T06:34:01.649-05:00

"As a small business owner and a Web site marketer, I'm always trying to find ways to get things done without having to hire someone to do it for me. I'm also very impatient, and I like instant results. Sometimes this causes conflict, so whenever I can complete a task myself, everyone stays happy.If you're at all like me, you might want to consider a Web site that will give you control over your

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-86986907926130267942007-07-18T06:27:00.001-05:002007-07-18T06:33:10.197-05:00

"The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5."Full Story:http://php.net/Technorati Tags

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-47444579537447660472007-07-18T06:26:00.001-05:002007-07-18T06:32:48.973-05:00

It seems as though one of the “hottest topics” nowadays in the Search Engine Marketing industry is social bookmarking. All the search engine marketers are talking about it now, and if you’re a search engine marketer–or just a marketer in general–or want to get more hits on your website, then you need to pay attention to social bookmarking, too.First, you need to create some link bait. If you’re

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-75182569742071102602007-07-18T06:24:00.001-05:002007-07-18T06:32:24.928-05:00

"Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 per cent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor."Full Storyhttp://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39167861,00.htmTechnorati Tags: firefox, Mozilla, europe

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-21826693642534308612007-07-18T06:23:00.001-05:002007-07-18T06:31:46.792-05:00

Google has announced a beefed-up version of Google Custom Search, a site search product aimed at small and medium sized businesses. The new service is hosted by Google, and offers all of the same functionality of the free Google Custom Search product, with a few key differences:Full Storyhttp://searchengineland.com/070717-000101.phpTechnorati Tags: custom search business edition, free google

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-85730160373982810442007-07-18T06:22:00.001-05:002007-07-18T06:31:21.132-05:00

"Mobile search is a battle to define perhaps the most important new interface with the consumer," says John du Pre Gauntt, eMarketer Senior Analyst and the author of the new report, Mobile Search: Clash of the Titans. "Whoever cracks the consumer and commercial code for delivering and monetizing relevant answers for people on the go will secure a license to print money, at least for a time."Full

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-54565537119659276222007-07-10T08:45:00.001-05:002007-07-10T08:48:20.925-05:00

"The two burglars had door keys, pass codes and combinations for the safes at a Colorado Springs indoor amusement center."But when it came to actually opening a combination lock, they did what most of us do when we're stumped — they called Google to the rescue."Full ArticleTechnorati Tags: google, burglars, combination lock, Colorado Springs indoor amusement center

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-90014893667821464112007-07-10T08:40:00.001-05:002007-07-10T08:47:53.800-05:00

"NEW YORK - A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites."The move by Nielsen/NetRatings, expected to be announced Tuesday, comes as online video and new technologies increasingly make page views less meaningful."Full ArticleTechnorati Tags: Nielsen/NetRatings, online

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-33043951149165377222007-07-09T17:42:00.001-05:002007-07-09T17:49:01.942-05:00

"Google has agreed to buy web-based security provider Postini for $625m,expanding its package of online applications to compete withMicrosoft's Office."Full StoryTechnorati Tags: Google, Postini, MS OfficePowered by ScribeFire.

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-9815322041996003902007-07-09T17:39:00.001-05:002007-07-09T17:48:33.628-05:00

"On an average day, nearly everyone in the US ages 15 and older engages in some sort of leisure activity, like watching TV, using a PC, socializing or exercising, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics' "American Time Use Survey."Full StoryTechnorati Tags: TV, PC, leisure time, marketingPowered by ScribeFire.

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-13843358941160878702007-07-09T17:05:00.001-05:002007-07-09T17:47:26.013-05:00

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. In May, Wikipedia had 46.8 million unique visitors, up 72 percent from June 2006, NetRatings said. Wikipedia also has finished on top of the news and information category

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-43140596315442839812007-07-09T09:48:00.001-05:002007-07-09T09:49:36.233-05:00

"Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a “much larger strategic deal” between the two companies."Maxthon has had over 80 million downloads of its browser, and over half of its users are in China

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-59407539520401860342007-07-05T15:17:00.000-05:002007-07-05T15:39:30.586-05:00

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-63915529130309557122007-07-03T12:46:00.001-05:002007-07-03T12:48:41.742-05:00

"SMEs are lagging behind larger companies when it comes to embracing flexible working practices such as working from home. Only 43 per cent of SMEs have the technology in place to support homeworking, compared to 76 per cent of large companies, research reveals."http://management.silicon.com/smedirector/0,39024679,39167728,00.htmTechnorati Tags: flexible work practices, homeworking, small

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-29061888408696341532007-07-03T12:44:00.001-05:002007-07-03T12:48:26.786-05:00

"In light of Google's acquisition of FeedBurner, Google has made the two fee-based FeedBurner services free: MyBrand and Stats PRO."http://searchengineland.com/070703-110000.phpTechnorati Tags: google, feedburner, mybrand, statspro

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-23292415292755950892007-07-03T12:41:00.001-05:002007-07-03T12:48:09.460-05:00

"Google Gadget Ventures is a new pilot program that will pay developers either $5,000 or $100,000 to create Google Gadgets that prove popular with users."http://searchengineland.com/070627-210000.phpTechnorati Tags: google gadget ventures, pilot program, development of gadgets

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-1193042968975085152007-06-28T07:52:00.001-05:002007-06-28T07:54:07.554-05:00

"The US Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday toward reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become the US' first federal identification card in a few years."Full StoryTechnorati Tags: ID Card, US Senate, privacy, Real ID ActPowered by ScribeFire.

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-10194102199048329232007-06-28T07:41:00.001-05:002007-06-28T07:44:48.197-05:00

Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. Grab a copy of Google Desktop for Linux for download here.Hmmm...I'd like to be giving it a whirl on Mandriva 2007, and hope it functions better than Picasa on Linux has.Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google's Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-10905159385088684562007-06-27T08:17:00.001-05:002007-07-03T12:50:02.673-05:00

I just found and tagged this Ranquest Toolbar, but installing it screwed up the google toolbar as well as the firefox buttons, and so I removed it again.http://www.rankquest.com/download-toolbar.htmlTechnorati Tags: Ranquest Toolbar, google toolbar, firefox buttons

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-42232404271194425392007-06-27T08:12:00.001-05:002007-06-27T08:14:04.963-05:00

"Now when you use Yahoo! Image Search, in addition to the billions of images we crawl from the Web, you've got access to over 300 million images from the amazing community of photographers on Flickr"http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000466.htmlTechnorati Tags: Flickr, yahoo image search

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-57534621372492638322007-06-27T08:07:00.001-05:002007-06-27T08:13:20.980-05:00

"Link Baiting is the latest in a procession of strategies search marketers have concocted over the years to ease the often laborious but absolutely necessary process of getting other web sites to link to your pages."http://searchengineland.com/070626-095424.phpTechnorati Tags: Link Baiting, seo

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-36777114820852563232007-06-26T19:28:00.000-05:002007-06-26T19:29:32.681-05:00

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-7734294048217514732007-06-26T19:04:00.001-05:002007-06-26T19:05:22.798-05:00

"A federal appeals court has reaffirmed that principle by ruling thate-mail messages stored by an Internet service provider deserve the sameprivacy protections as the contents of telephone calls. In bothsituations, the legal touchstone is the same: whether users of acommunications service have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."Full StoryTechnorati Tags: 4th amnendment, privacy, emailPowered

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-83446215355335691892007-06-26T19:00:00.001-05:002007-06-26T19:01:22.362-05:00

"Keyword research and analysis are fundamental areas of SEO. From the viewpoint of your Web site, ask yourself the following questions. What do I want to be known for? What information, products, and services do I offer? What keywords are my top ten competitors using? What keyword phrases are people actually using when they search?What types of actions are taken by people searching for

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-11058001611731494402007-05-26T20:09:00.000-05:002007-05-26T20:24:28.261-05:00

Even though gasoline prices are over $3 a gallon, Americans still haven't seemed to be able to curb their driving habits all that much. Perhaps the concept of stewardship needs careful consideration.Technorati Tags: gas prices, holiday weekend, Memorial Day, AAA, dominion, stewardship

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-12563031091551218532007-05-26T17:26:00.001-05:002007-05-26T17:26:45.505-05:00

"Google registered “climatesaverpc.com” on Wednesday — could this be Google’s next step in their ambition to save the environment?"http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=581

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-87856094559126465192007-05-25T09:35:00.001-05:002007-05-25T09:50:35.120-05:00

MS Office 2007 is on the market, as you should be well aware of. You run into problems though if you try to open 2007 documents, spreadsheets and the like with older versions of MS Office, since the new format is compressed, and unless you have MS Office 2007, you are unable to open it.Here's the good news, however: Microsoft makes a converter available that converts the new format to a readable

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-36768587356201120082007-05-24T07:09:00.001-05:002007-05-24T07:12:17.034-05:00

I noticed in my Gmail account an announcement that Gmail doubled it's allowable attachment size, from 10 to 20 MB's. This is great for those who send video attachments, or larger rar or zip archives, such as myself.http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.htmlTechnorati Tags: gmail, attachments

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-21551745386690109412007-05-21T08:28:00.001-05:002007-05-21T09:19:42.808-05:00

TypeKey is a free, open system providing you a central identity for posting comments on weblogs and logging into other websites. You can register for free.http://www.sixapart.com/typekey/Technorati Tags: blog, weblog, blogging

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-49617440796000183832007-05-21T08:20:00.001-05:002007-05-21T09:19:06.876-05:00

Less than what I was expecting, but still something to fiddle with, when I have 3-4 minutes of down time. According to ClickZ, one should be able to sign up at the Experimental site for future searches that include Experimental functionality, but I haven't found such an option."Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take them for a spin, and

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-69186067317068740802007-05-18T09:23:00.001-05:002007-05-18T10:48:56.615-05:00

"Search marketers may be seeding content on social networks, but does that content generate product searches?"http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1004937&src=article1_newsltrTechnorati Tags: social networks, search marketers

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-57215248613844197432007-05-15T15:50:00.001-05:002007-05-15T17:50:31.544-05:00

We currently manage four eCommerce sites that run on the MC platform. Recently, we acquired the DataPort software to facilitate the exporting of the product list from one online store so that they could be easily uploaded to Google Base.The exporting went just fine but, upon upload to Google Base, all but a handful of products, of a total of 582, were rejected. A call to MC tech support

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-8878498329369744472007-05-15T14:04:00.001-05:002007-05-15T16:07:25.842-05:00

Pipl searches the "deep web", which consists of databases that web crawlers don't crawl. Nice...well, this site is rather interesting. Try searching for your own name, and see what it uncovers, or perhaps an ex wife. I found one of my ex wives (exactly where I left her) but the other remains lost in time.http://www.pipl.com"There are various reasons why you might need to search for people, you

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-85001984931540015892007-05-15T13:43:00.001-05:002007-05-15T14:14:27.294-05:00

"As promised, we’ve started to roll out unlimited email storage to Yahoo! Mail users worldwide today. When it hits your account, you’ll notice the storage meter has disappeared — meaning, you just don’t have to worry about deleting old messages ever again! As a reminder, while we wish we could simply flip a switch and “unlimit” everyone at once, we’ll be rolling this out over a few months to

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-10471509190133072082007-05-14T12:19:00.001-05:002007-05-14T18:48:15.088-05:00

TheNewsRoom is the premier source for news content online. It's all free, fully licensed, and available for you to embed, or mash, onto your website or blog!When you join, you automatically share in the advertising revenue every time a mashed story is viewed on your site. It's free, but you have to join to participate! * Build your audience * Keep them on your site * Add another source of

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-81670518215980959642007-05-10T09:58:00.001-05:002007-05-10T10:04:52.563-05:00

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004898&src=article1_newsltr"E-mail is the online tactic of choice for promotional marketers, according to a PROMO magazine survey. The magazine found that 72.6% of respondents used e-mail marketing as part of their online efforts. Another 60.8% used e-mail newsletters." Technorati Tags: newsletters, email, marketing, promotional,

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-78455367261471813732007-05-10T09:48:00.001-05:002007-05-10T10:04:22.351-05:00

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625821"While the concept is cosmic, strangely just, and inspirational, it’s also crap. If you build a baseball field in a cornfield, I'm very sorry, but you are going to have to market the hell out of that thing. You can’t just build an inspired online marketing initiative and hope “they’ll come.” I know this seems super obvious, but you’d be

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-42171713383729793002007-05-07T09:38:00.001-05:002007-05-07T09:41:35.550-05:00

Cut, slice, divide, segment and conquer. "Online retailers could improve sales by using segmented e-mail lists, according to an Internet Retailer survey analyzed by Vovici."http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004890&src=article1_newsltrHave a look at this survey, it might be interesting for you and visit us at Dominion-Design.qupis.com to find more information about online marketing, SEO, open

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-30486916009516510462007-05-04T08:00:00.001-05:002007-05-04T08:10:59.669-05:00

"Dell will not sell Linux PCs in the UK - at least for the time being."The PC supplier has said it will sell machines with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed later this month. But Dell has told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that the systems will only be sold in the US for now. It refused to reveal any timescale for the sale of such systems in the UK."http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-38127644973087831432007-05-04T07:57:00.001-05:002007-05-04T08:10:38.490-05:00

Report: Web portal seen valued at $50 billionNEW YORKMicrosoft Corp. has intensified its pursuit of a deal to take over Yahoo Inc., asking the company to re-enter formal talks, the New York Post reported on its Web site on Friday.While the two companies have held informal deal talks over the years, the latest approach signals a new urgency on Microsoft's part, the paper said, citing unnamed

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-18778154745511826612007-05-04T07:55:00.001-05:002007-05-04T08:09:56.113-05:00

"Female baby boomers spend over 15 hours a week on the Internet, according to a ThirdAge and JWT BOOM survey."Over 83% of all female boomers spend some of that time researching or reading about health and wellness, both for themselves and their families."Nearly 70% say they would definitely or probably get health information from their friends as well."http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-49855319489086897552007-05-04T07:53:00.001-05:002007-05-04T08:10:20.208-05:00

Have a look at this free keyword suggestion tool, and try it:http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/Technorati Tags: keyword suggestion tool, webdesign, SEO

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-21413925896205222162007-05-04T07:51:00.001-05:002007-05-04T08:09:37.979-05:00

By Eric AuchardSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, its first-generation photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to Yahoo's Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said on Thursday.In June, tens of millions of registered users of Yahoo Photos will be notified of various options including upgrading to Yahoo's Flickr service or various

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-23664569304742926062007-05-04T07:48:00.001-05:002007-05-04T08:09:16.016-05:00

"Today's article is a follow-up on our earlier review in which I looked at the capabilities and usability of the big three search engines' free site creation tools. The focus was on how easy each software product was for a non-technical person to master. The three tools reviewed were Google's Page Creator, Microsoft's Office Live Basics, and Yahoo's SiteBuilder."The original article, Free Web

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-60336650743771900752007-05-03T08:04:00.001-05:002007-05-03T08:05:15.839-05:00

By Jeff Bertolucci, PC World"Whether you're searching for text, video, images, news, or local information, you have lots of options beyond Google. We tried dozens of search engines and found some worthy challengers to the king.Not many brands become verbs, as in "I googled [fill in the blank] last night." Nielsen/NetRatings' January 2007 report found that more than half of all Web queries in the

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-78715788667075454682007-05-03T07:59:00.001-05:002007-05-03T08:04:52.836-05:00

by Stephan Spencer"Wikipedia's importance as an authority site is undisputed. It's at the point where it seems a bit ridiculous how often Wikipedia shows up in the first page of Google for just about every search imaginable. In many cases these Wikipedia entries are extremely light on content. Oftentimes they are what are known as "stubs," just the very beginnings of an article.Personally, I

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-36377035145430849572007-05-03T07:57:00.001-05:002007-05-03T08:04:30.314-05:00

"We recently returned from our annual rendezvous at SES New York and, like always, learned a lot from our webmasters. The 'Robots.txt Summit' generated some healthy discussions and support for adding a tag to parts of a page that do not relate to the main content, such as navigation, menus repeated across the entire site, boilerplate text, or even advertising. We heard what people were asking for

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-62702585935167679442007-05-02T07:48:00.001-05:002007-05-02T07:49:02.906-05:00

"Web 2.0 sites accounted for 12% of all US Web activity for the week ended April 7, 2007, according to Hitwise's "State of the Web 2.0: Measuring the Participatory Web" study. That is up 2% compared with the same period two years prior.Wikipedia is the top educational reference Web site, accounting for over 26% of the visits in a category of 3,272 sites."http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?

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By ReutersLAS VEGASMicrosoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said on Monday it plans to offer a streaming video service that stores and hosts video for its new Silverlight online media platform.Silverlight, which is now available for download in a test version, is a rival to Adobe Systems Inc.'s dominant Flash player and a new application to deliver video, games and animation through a

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-35362358798339867332007-05-02T07:32:00.001-05:002007-05-02T07:45:16.526-05:00

"PHPOpenChat is a high performance php-based chat server software for a live chat-room or -module on every php-based site. The first version has been developed for a live-chat-subproject of the main German education portal (DBS) called "SchulWeb". The PHPOpenChat have had to manage alot of users, around 100-150 concurrent chatters, the most behind firewalls and in front of old computers. Based on

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"After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs. The AACS claims that anyone publishing the number may be violating US laws against circumvention of copy protection. How the story unfolded below, plus more on how the DMCA takedown notices being issued

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-39757850083616038342007-05-01T16:35:00.001-05:002007-05-01T16:35:52.664-05:00

"You're probably tired of reading about cultural differences between the two search marketing leaders, Google and Yahoo. Does Semel have better hair than Sergey? Does Yahoo really hire people based on softball prowess? If you're actually using the search marketing platforms, or for that matter, interacting with Googlers or Yahoos to accomplish a marketing-related task, none of this matters. Let's

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-62209323568554542012007-05-01T11:17:00.001-05:002007-05-01T11:23:16.449-05:00

"At the end of May, the number two PC maker will begin selling some consumer-focused laptop and desktop models with Ubuntu's new 'Feisty Fawn' version of Linux installed, according to a Dell spokesman. It plans to broadcast the Linux move on its IdeaStorm website, which launched in February to gather feedback directly from customers about what they want."http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/

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NEW YORK (Reuters)"Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's largest software maker, is a contender to buy Internet advertising firm 24/7 Real Media Inc. (TFSM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) for as much as $1 billion, the New York Post reported on Tuesday."Technorati Tags: Microsoft, 24/7 Real Media

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By Mark Jackson"If you’ve been around the search marketing block a few times, you’ve heard this statement more times than you can count. I know it sounds redundant, but until more companies do a better job at focusing on their Web site copy, it bears repeating. Well written content is important for three primary reasons:Engages the reader Increases search engine rankings and traffic Promotes the

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Tiny steps toward more public communication.The buzz around collaborative Web 2.0 technologies keeps going, and it is easy to think that every firm now has a blog, a wiki and an RSS feed.In fact, a global survey of internal and corporate communications professionals found that more than half use blogs, online video and RSS, or plan to do so in the next 12 months.http://www.emarketer.com/

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Today is Google Personalization Day at Google, where reporters and bloggers have been invited to learn more about Google's moves to personalize its services. Our own Greg Sterling is there and will be providing coverage out of the event later. However, some news is already flowing out now.For one, Google steps up personalized Web search push from Reuters covers how Google will be renaming the

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As reported by Google Blogoscoped, Google Personalized Homepage will be rebranded as iGoogle and will let you build your own gadgets using wizards. The gadgets are very simple and are more like containers for things that matter to you: photos, videos, events."Once the gadget is created, you can invite other people to view & use the gadget, and make it publicly available for other people to view &

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-40821923477253350982007-05-01T09:27:00.001-05:002007-05-01T09:28:41.510-05:00

Yahoo plans to acquire Right Media, a privately held company that runs an advertising marketplace, in part to bolster its position as a seller and broker of ads outside its own sprawling network of Web sites, the companies’ chief executives said yesterday.Yahoo, which bought a 20 percent stake in Right Media last October, will pay approximately $680 million, in equal parts of stock and cash, for

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-61321723839560837112007-04-27T11:06:00.001-05:002007-04-27T11:09:16.642-05:00

"ClickTracksAppetizer is a free web analytics program that includes several of ClickTracks' most popular features--like its overlay view, path view, page analysis and basic visitor labeling."Technorati Tags: analytics

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"Online advertising has long been plagued with connections to spyware, and now the seedy spyware underground has moved from pop-up networks to Google's search ad network. Discovered by security software firm Exploit Prevention Labs earlier this month, AdWords ads were used in attempts to install spyware on users' computers. Though Google said it has removed the offending ads and may have

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-84852846659241829522007-04-26T08:01:00.001-05:002007-04-26T08:04:45.175-05:00

Choose well what you read... Mankind can only destroy, obviously."The Internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested.According to Scansafe's Monthly Global Threat Report for March 2007, a surprisingly high percentage of the Internet's blog sites-- up to 80 percent-

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The new social media sites popping up in the wake of the Web 2.0revolution are providing us with unique opportunities when it comes tolink building. Since I'm always on the look-out for resources thatattract and target specific demographics, I've hit the linking jackpoton more than one occasion by developing promotions that take advantageof the services social media and networking sites

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-35423667991532477952007-04-23T08:02:00.001-05:002007-04-23T08:02:01.574-05:00

Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007. It's the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota.http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39166829,00.htmTechnorati Tags: google, brand value, Microsoft, Coke

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-39855247486515248322007-04-19T09:11:00.001-05:002007-04-19T09:12:16.773-05:00

This is a helpful online database of RSS and Atom feeds, and it's probably also helpful to be listed there:http://www.feedbase.net/index.phpTechnorati Tags: Feedbase, RSS, Atom feeds, database

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-10225716152826186712007-04-19T09:08:00.001-05:002007-04-19T09:10:42.184-05:00

Have a look at this article to learn more about Search Engine Strategies and how blogs can help you.http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625626Technorati Tags: blogging, search engine strategies, links

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Alert ServicesInterested in keeping abreast of news, blogs, and web sites related to topics of interest? Google and Yahoo!both offer free monitoring services.Enter in keywords to you would like tomonitor and they will notify you via email whenever those keywords are mentioned. Simple, easy, and free.Technorati Tags: google, yahoo!, alerts

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-5411667377646450052007-04-12T08:09:00.001-05:002007-04-19T08:59:59.876-05:00

Webmasters Can Now Auto-Discover With Sitemaps"We took the idea to Google and Microsoft and are happy to announce today that you can now find your sitemaps in a uniform way across all participating engines. To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml"*Also see http://www.sitemaps.org/Dreamweaver offers a free extension to generate

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-79808216624262166892007-04-09T09:14:00.000-05:002007-04-09T09:29:21.217-05:00

"If you believe the likes of Jakob Neilsen and his supporters, nothing is more evil than pop-up windows. And in many ways, this is correct. Why? Well, we'll list the reasons soon enough, but in a nutshell it's because they are nearly always poorly implemented or simply not needed. This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone -

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"For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our searchengine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed thatthis functionality has been recently turned off. We have been seeingbroad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately alsowhat appears to be mass automated usage for data mining. So for now, wehave made the tough call to block all queries

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-85261833002320827292007-03-29T07:26:00.001-05:002007-03-29T07:26:56.310-05:00

"...the crawler finally decided to move and find a new home. We are moving our crawler from inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net."Technorati Tags: Yahoo!, slurp, crawler, search engine

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-59750396318050042692007-03-29T07:19:00.001-05:002007-03-29T07:19:05.028-05:00

Yahoo! is set to release software that will allow third-party developers to write applications using Yahoo! Mail. Themove to open up the application programming interfaces (APIs) to Yahoo!Mail is meant to encourage web developers to build applications thatuse the mail service. The company expects these third-party 'mash-ups', hybrid software that combines content from more than one source, will

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-33569419625075299532007-03-28T07:21:00.001-05:002007-03-28T07:34:50.474-05:00

"Yahoo! will begin offering unlimited storage for its free web-basedemail in May. The move makes it the first of the major free emailproviders to offer unlimited storage but, in all likelihood, it willnot be the last."Technorati Tags: yahoo!, gmail, email, storage

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-74294745651689748832007-03-27T08:04:00.001-05:002007-03-27T09:49:27.922-05:00

It appears as though the Europeans are gearing up for 2012 ;-)You can now find detailed information severe weather warnings in Europe at Meteoalarm"With climate change set to bring ever more frequent storms, floods andnatural disasters, 21 European countries have created a unified weatheralert system, its creators said on Friday."http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39166533,00.

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-13013904250944680042007-03-27T07:45:00.001-05:002007-03-27T10:02:00.179-05:00

Adobe is set to launch it's souped up version of Photoshop next month. We will certainly be interested in how it goes.  Although we are somewhat frequent Photoshop users, we won't be running out to make any new purchases.For those who are in need of a good quality graphics program that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, Gimp is a suitable alternative, and the cost is just right:  Free!Cnet

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-30216158186151835752007-03-16T08:17:00.001-05:002007-03-16T08:17:05.565-05:00

Blogger.com ( Google ) is one of the most visited blog sites. Due toits popularity, hackers have started to embed malicious scripts on someblogs. These scripts have shown up on hundreds of Blogger.com sites. Insome cases, a variant of the Stration mass mailer is responsible fordirecting traffic to the Blogger.com sites. FortiGuard Center - FortiGuard Advisory - Malicious Code Appears on

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Adobe Systems plans tolaunch Creative Suite 3 later this month, marking the largest softwarerelease in the company's 25-year history. CreativeSuite 3, an overhaul of its publishing applications, is scheduled forintroduction on March 27, the company confirmed in a blog posting onMonday. The software will begin shipping in the spring.

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The Opera web browser version 10 hasn't been released just yet, but apparently they are hopeful that it will lure users away from IE with its various widget offerings. I would imagine that a number of Firefox users would be interested in this as well, considering that these widgets are more akin to Firefox extensions that anything IE has to offer.We have been using Opera as our main browser for

Dominion Designnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358107366429817716.post-32917358597051911372007-02-09T09:00:00.001-05:002007-02-09T09:01:58.919-05:00

This morning I read on Webmasterworld about Yahoo! Pipes, and hope to give it a try later today. It looks like a powerful way to collect all types of useful information. I hope to give it a try around lunchtime and will share my experiences then."Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes,you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant."

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