FTC to Regulate Blog Posts?
The Federal Trade Commission is talking about blogs – specifically paid posts, free incentives from product producers, and how the government fits into protecting the consumer from their own lack of research.
Forget about economic recovery – adapt to the new market
The economy isn’t going to recover any time soon – and when it does recover, it probably still won’t be anything like the pre-2008 market conditions. Business trends can fluctuate over a long time horizon, and current shifts indicate a new paradigm of frugality may be here to stay for a while.
Hostgator Review
All levels of Hostgator hosting services reviewed and compared. See what options are available for Hostgator customers – from single-domain hosting to completely dedicated servers.
“The current days of the Internet will soon be over”
Rupert Murdoch informs investors that the new business model will attempt to hide content behind paid walls and he goes on to predict the very end of the internet as we’ve known it. Call me skeptical of his internet counter-revolution.
Web Bubble Unwound – Acquisitions Turn into IPOs and Startups
The internet economy is entering a new era of stark realities as large websites begin to dump off acquisitions and dependent domains that aren’t directly related to their business model.
Governments Imagine Easy Cash Online – Want Internet Money
South Park’s take on internet fame, making money online, and wealth by legislation is not just hilarious, it has some valid points that web publishers and governments should take into consideration.
Shared vs Unique IP on Shared Hosting – Initial Results
About a week and a half after transferring my sites to a unique IP address, the immediate SEO results have been significant. Here is a summary of the results I’ve seen so far and some more information about obtaining a unique IP address for shared hosting accounts.
Digg Cleans Up SEO Mess
I mentioned in the last post about Digg’s adventures in content framing, and specifically about how these changes were affecting search engine indexing. After just a few weeks of publisher outrage, Digg finds a way to keep their frame while keeping publishers placated.
Digg Gets into the Content Theft Business
Digg goes beyond link sharing to outright content theft. Will the new toolbar help generate revenue or alienate users and force publishers to get their pitchforks out? I vote for pitchforks!
Shared Hosting – Your Experience May Vary
At a large shared hosting company, different customers are likely to end up on difference machines. Since each machine has its own neighbors and quirks, it is worth studying multiple perspectives on the quality and common problems associated with a particular hosting brand.
Twitter’s Eternal September and the Hunt for Spring
Twitter Enters the eternal September – even CNN is talking about it. Can you get more mainstream than that? There is an odd relationship between early adoption and mainstream online services, and the tension there helps promote the evolution of the internet.
10 Min Email
What is this 10 minute mail and why do I keep getting their search engine traffic? Learn about a great email resource for webmasters and how it became my own personal SEO experiment. Hopefully, this will fix some search engine results for the gain of everyone involved.
SezWho is the Latest Economic Casualty
First Furl, now SezWho – I got this email last night and I’m going to share it here..