As a result of an anti-trust agreement made with the European Commission earlier this year, Microsoft Corporation began rolling out the “browser ballot” program in Europe early this month.  The “browser ballot” system is an …

The web hosting industry is typically a fierce and competitive market, there are literally thousands of web hosts out there.  Some good, some not so much.  But in light of recent events (the earthquakes in …

Slicehost, which was acquired by Rackspace several months ago, is an excellent company that provides Virtual Private Servers (VPS). These virtual servers provide the owner unrestricted access for both application and web development. As a …

David Ulevitch started EveryDNS while he was a freshman in college back in June 2001. Now nearly nine years later, EveryDNS provides simple, reliable and secure DNS services to the Internet community. It …

The use of Internet Explorer by Internet users has always been a burden on the web design community. With the expansion of Web 2.0 technologies such as feature rich CSS based designs and JavaScript …

The other day I wrote a post, “What Is A CDN?” where I explained what exactly a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is, how it works, and what it does.  I’d like to elaborate a bit …

A CDN (or Content Delivery Network) is a network of servers that delivers cached static content from websites and applications to an end user based on several factors including the geographic locations of the user, …

Let me preface this post by stating a few things: I’m well-aware that no one is entitled to anything on the Internet.  I know that these industry blogs (e.g. TechCrunch, Mashable, etc.) probably receive several …

In a recent video interview with Google’s Matt Cutt’s, he hints that Google is considering using a site’s speed as part of the algorithm that ranks the order of pages in its search results.  To …

Back in July, Google dropped the beta label from Gmail after 5 long years of pretty much perfection.  Gmail’s full feature set, solid uptime and performance is the reason it’s the number two web based …

Pingdom is a freemium web service that allows you to monitor and track your websites uptime.  As all website owners and server administrators know – uptime is extremely important.  The more your site/server is down …

SearchMe, the visual search engine which currently is redirecting to Google, due to lack of funds and no buyer in sight is essentially the search engine that never was.  Granted, there are a lot of …

Dear Webmasters,
I just thought I would let you know requests for link exchanges are so 10 years ago.  I’m seriously tired of receiving all of these bogus requests via email to exchange links.  First of …

The word “fail” has become somewhat of an Internet meme over the last year or so. Fails ranging from the Twitter “fail whale” to the recent CNN and Rackspace fails are not going unnoticed. …

Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X announced this morning it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approximately $7.7 million). This news …