Internet

What Is OAuth and How Can it Make the Internet Safer?

by Keaton Taylor March 24, 2011

Over the last few months I’ve been working on discovering the functionality of the OAuth standard. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically a username and password. So [...]

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AT&T to Impose Caps on Home Internet

by Keaton Taylor March 15, 2011

Broadband Reports has learned that starting May 2nd, AT&T will start imposing bandwidth caps for both DSL and u-Verse internet services. Between March 18th and 31st, AT&T users will receive notices informing them of the change in the company’s terms of service. AT&T spokesman Seth Bloom confirms to Broadband Reports after initial contact with him [...]

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5 Things to Consider Before Buying Web Hosting

by Mike Mansell February 17, 2011

When establishing an online presence for yourself or your business/organization, there are a number of important components that help your content stand a better chance at being found and becoming successful on the vast sea of information that is the Internet. Personally, I have always been a stickler for creating high-quality content, as I believe [...]

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Despite Delays, Google Fiber is Making Progress

by Mike Mansell December 15, 2010

In a recent post in regards to Google’s potential as a wireless carrier, I was quick to point out that Google does not have an existing nation-wide network (neither wired or wireless) that would be able to serve as the “backbone” to a potential wireless network. However, I was also quick to take note that [...]

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How Amazon Could Improve and Expand Their Business

by Mike Mansell November 22, 2010

When it comes to online shopping, one of the most well-known online retailers is Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon, a company that started as an online store in 1994, has grown to become a huge multi-million dollar corporation that dominates the Internet. One of the things that really intrigues me about Amazon is the fact that they [...]

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Web-Based Television is the Future

by Mike Mansell November 11, 2010

Sites like Hulu and Netflix’s relatively new streaming service appear to have started a revolution in how we consume media. Is this revolution complete? Absolutely not. In the future, I expect to see more open standards for viewing television online and through products such as the Google TV and the Apple TV. More importantly, however, I am [...]

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How To: Track Your Brand Name Online

by Jeff Weisbein August 25, 2010

I want to share with you one of the web’s best kept secrets. A service so awesome many companies end up paying for it even though it’s completely free. In other words, if you are paying any of these companies who claim to track your brand name online you are most likely being taken advantage [...]

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How To: Access Information From Offline/Unavailable Websites

by Mike Mansell August 17, 2010

We’ve all been there. You’re looking up a set of directions, a tutorial, or some form of information on the Internet, only to find that the site that Google returns as a result is down. In many cases, finding another set of directions or another site with the same information is a simple task, but [...]

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Confessions of a WordPress Convert

by Mike Mansell August 17, 2010

When one surfs the Internet and visits websites, it is a rare occurrence for that person to consider how the websites they visit are managed and designed. Sure, people will sometimes ask themselves how sites work and how the people behind the site manage it, but not many know the amount of effort that it [...]

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