Web Services

Half the battle of creating a successful Internet venture is finding the right domain name, setting the site up, and building traffic. The other half is analyzing this traffic. Understanding who your visitors are, what they’re looking for, and how they ended up at your site is critical. Thankfully, there …

Today Sun Microsystems shareholders are voting on whether or not to approve Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition. Many of the world’s websites run on servers powered by Sun’s operating system Solaris, their hardware, MySQL databases, and in some cases, Java-based applications. All of that is now on the table if …

If you are starting a website for the first time, you have probably heard the term “Web 2.0” and wondered what it meant. It is difficult to find a precise definition even from the man who coined the phrase, Tim O’Reilly. In an industry that tends to focus more on …

Comcast has announced a new “service” in which customers who type in a domain name incorrectly are redirected to a “help page” that happens to also contain ads. It will be on by default for Comcast customers, although they are offering an opt-out setting for customers who do not want …

While FTP is the most common method of transferring files to your website, there many be times when you want a secure method of manipulating your files directly on the server. Secure Shell or SSH is one method of accomplishing this. It was design as a secure replacement for Telnet …

In a move that has surprised few in the tech world, Google has announced plans to release an operating system for netbooks in 2010. Analysts have long speculated that the search giant would release a desktop OS to compete with Microsoft on its largest front. Not surprisingly they intend to …

Who done it, with what, and where? Was it A) Microsoft, inside their security deficient, sub-standard browser with an over-hyped search engine? Was it B) Apple at its elitist developer conference with an exploding iPhone app? Was it C) Google in a YouTube video with a poison drop of lonelygirl15‘s …

News has circulated that Twitter has filed for a trademark for the word “tweet”. The company’s blog, however, makes it clear that it will not go after sincere, legitimate applications and services that use the name. For those domain owners and businesses that have domain names with the word “tweet” …

Looking to dominate the domain industry? You may want to look into Domize. It’s a free tool that lets you track domain registration trends and find available names. The statistics feature is quite useful. Today’s report, for example, says that 1,020 domains containing the word “michael” have been registered, while …

Not to be deterred by a little litigation and jail time, the founders of The Pirate Bay plan to launch a new video sharing site. The new potential YouTube competitor will feature videos without copyright restrictions, the company claims. YouTube has long been the subject of copyright disputes with numerous …