Posted on April 1st, 2009 by admin
The Internet played a considerable role in the aftermath of the terrorist
attack on New York City and Washington, DC. The best and the worst of online
usage emerged as email and instant messaging became prime sources of
communication. News-based Web sites bogged down from high traffic. Many
popular news sites froze from the spike in traffic. Here are a few of the
more striking uses of the Web during the early hours and days of the disaster.
Instant messaging worked when phone failed
Instant messaging became one of the stars in the early hours after the attack
as consumers and businesses corresponded one-to-one when phone lines quit
working in part of New York City. America Online reported that 1.2 billion
messages were sent via instant messaging and on AOL's proprietary client
software on September 11 alone.
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Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by admin
Lets face it as much as we all rely on email communications it is not really a reliable technology.
Why Should I care about RSS Feeds
SPAM and viruses have wreaked havoc with a communication medium and reduced its value. Users have become admittedly paranoid about privacy issues and have begun "tuning out" and mentally filtering mail. What this means is that vendors really ought to begin exploring alternatives means of communciation in order to be heard. One of these alternatives is RSS or Really Simple Syndication.
While I'm not suggesting that you abandon email I think that many might want to consider RSS feeds as well. Because RSS Feeds are selected by the end user spam is not an issue. RSS is created using XML, a very basic markup language. One that does not contain the risks inherent to email.
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Posted on February 28th, 2009 by admin
RSS directories are popular these days. RSS is widely used initially by
news sites to allow others to syndicate their news stories. Now, a lot
of other websites are using RSS. It is being used in flagging new forum
headlines, auction listings, sales listings and others.
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by admin
Too many days I found myself constantly checking the same financial news web pages for any news about the companies I was currently invested in. Between clicking on these web pages and constantly clicking on other financial web pages to obtain stock quotes, I was driving myself crazy and wasting a lot of time that belonged to my employer. After all he does not pay me to surf the web. But if I didn't keep track of investment information, I could lose a lot of money. I thought there had to be a solution other than taking Valium. Why should I watch web pages for stuff when my computer should be able to do this for me? This is when I discovered a software program called Easy Web Page Watcher by Patrick DiRienzo.
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Easy Web Page Watcher Watches Web Pages For You
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Posted on January 9th, 2009 by admin
When JV Media Design was formed, the year was 1995 and the Internet was a very different place than it is today.
The first websites we created used simple layouts, a modest amount of graphics, standard "web safe" colors, and no javascript. This was all done in an attempt to create websites that worked well with the browsers of the time (namely, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator).
As the years went by, technology rapidly changed, and so did the web. Soon enough, javascript was standard procedure to create "roll over" effects on buttons, to scroll text, and lots more. Web pages got more graphically intense, and using audio and Flash was a brand new frontier.
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Posted on December 20th, 2008 by admin
understanding web terms
Computer-related things tend to have a language all their own. While you do not need to know all of it, there are many confusing words and phrases that you are going to come across sooner or later. Bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of data that your website can send each second, as well as the amount of data that the visitor to your website can receive. If either one does not have enough bandwidth, then the website will appear slowly. For this reason, you should choose a host with plenty of bandwidth, as well as testing that your site doesn't take too long to download on slow connections.
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A Must-know About Computer And Internet Glossary
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by admin
Filtering in Outlook Express. Select as many conditions and actions as you need, but remember the more you choose, the more thought needs to go into designing them.
One of the major attractions of being on the Internet is the huge amount of information that becomes available to you. Armed only with a few keywords, a visit to a search engine can provide you with more than you ever wanted to know on just about any topic that comes to mind.
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How Message Filters Can Block Unwanted Emails
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by admin
Why are all of my web pages and articles dropping into Google's supplemental index?
I just read an article from SitePro News called "Search Engine Optimization For Universal Search - Back to Square One?" and have some comments to make.
I have noticed a huge trend for Google to move duplicate syndications of articles into their supplemental index at the blink of an eye. This cannot be good for the article directories because, like my own at Moxie Drive Expressions it causes a dramatic decrease in Adsense income and exposure of the article across the internet. My question to Google is, when you go to buy a book or decide it is time to go to a book store to peruse the volumes, do you always go to the same bookstore? The answer to that is no. We probably go to the one that is the closest. If I as an author have published a book, I would like that my readers could find my book in whatever bookstore my reader chooses and I would like it to show up on every shelf in every bookstore in the world.
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Google's Universal Search - The Death Of Article Marketing
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by admin
What would you do if you switched your computer on
tomorrow morning, only to see an error message and to find
that some of your important files had become corrupted? You
may no longer be able to open some files - or, even worse,
files might have gone missing without a trace.
Welcome to the world of data loss!
If you rely on your computer, then this would be a total
disaster. If you run any kind of web site or online business,
things would get worse before they got better.
Imagine losing your entire ezine subscriber base. Need I say
more? Backing up your data on a regular basis is not an
option, but a necessity - for the sake of both your business
and your sanity.
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Posted on June 21st, 2008 by admin
Ah, Hah ! You've just found the Greatest Opportunity
of the century.
It's a new affiliate business that offers top commission,
free autoresponders, and of course your very own free
replicated Website. (or page)
You have been told that all you have to do is join and
you will get all this for Free, Plus you won't have to do
anything, your site will be promoted in various ways and
submitted to an "x" number of search engines to bring
traffic to your "new" site.
I'm sorry that I should be the one to break this bad news
to you. All else may work well for you and your replicated
site BUT, you can forget the traffic from search engines !
It just won't happen. Why ?
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