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Diaspora, the open alternative to Facebook, to be launched on 15 September

500 million users and $33bn worth, two numbers that best describe Facebook. Facebook has been lately the fastest growing social networking website and seems that nothing can stop it from its ascenssion. Recently, developers of Diaspora, an open alternative to Facebook, announced its launch on 15 September 2010 and what it seems as an impossible task – challenging Facebook – is something the online environment should have an eye on. The developers team made of 4 US students had a difficult time... [Read more]

Beginners Guide to Selling Online – eCommerce Made Simple

Beginners Guide to Selling Online The less than promising outlook for the economy coupled with the gloomy jobs outlook makes starting a small business one of the best ways to weather the gloomy economic outlook that seem to be one of the few things most top economist agree on. Echoing a similar line, the Universities minister David Willetts advice students leaving university to to cast off “old-fashioned” ideas about what constitutes a graduate job and instead consider starting a business. Knowing... [Read more]

Clearing a site of malware

In case your site got hacked and some malware code, virus, trojan or downloader, was inserted in your site here is a step by step tutorial on how you can clear it. First you need to identify the code that was inserted by the hacker. There are many things a hacker can and will add to your pages but most of the times you can easily spot them as they have nothing to do with your site and you know you did not add them there. Some of the most common malware codes are inserted between tags. Others... [Read more]

Social Networks Eclipse Search Engines in Popularity

Social Networks Eclipse Search in Popularity For many years, search engines has been the most popular websites online. Most Internet users start their online journey with a search engine thereby making search the most popular Internet destination, until the middle of 2010 that is. For the first time, Internet traffic to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter exceeded traffic to search engines. Earlier this week, Twitter mark the occasion of its users sending the 20 billionth tweet. The much... [Read more]

Register a .uk domain name and win an iPad

Registering a domain name these days is one of the easiest task when it comes to creating a new website, but what if you could also win a wonderful prize by only buying a co.uk domain name from VelnetWeb, a UK based web hosting company ? Velnet is one of the fast growing web hosting company in UK, with a wide range of products from web hosting and domain name registration to web design and ecommerce stores creation. With the latest discounts offered ( -20% for the Velnet Business Plan hosting plan... [Read more]

Organic search results from Bing, now on Yahoo !

Before the search engines’ merger which will take place in August this year, Yahoo started to test Bing powered organic results. They confirmed this testing by sending emails to all their advertisers in which Yahoo states clearly that tests are being done at these moments. The email sent to advertisers say that these tests are made for ensuring a quality transition and for all the complex pieces that will combine to do it right. Even though Yahoo said there is nothing much to do as a preparation... [Read more]

DigitalPoint Forums got banned from Google AdSense program

Five days ago, DigitalPoint Forums, one of the largest webmasters’ community on the Internet stopped placing Google AdSense advertising on their pages. People started to talk about this so the owner of this website, Shawn Hogan, wrote a blog post about what actually happened with AdSense ads. Although DigitalPoint forums runs the largest support site for AdSense publishers with over 760,000 thread and still counting, it seems nothing could stop Google from banning his account for, what they claim... [Read more]

Facebook concerns about child safety and releases “panic button”

After some long time of of negotiation between Facebook and UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, Facebook recently announced the release of a “panic button” on the website aimed to children and teens. Although at the begining Facebook opossed this idea, it finally approved this button that, once installed, on the homepage the application will transmit that “they are in control online”. The negotiations started in November last year with not only Facebook but... [Read more]

Hi-tech credit card to combat online fraud – Visa CodeSure

eCommerce Card Fraud – Visa CodeSure to the rescue Giving all the anti-fraud mechanism put in place by banks and credit card companies, you would think online fraud and credit card fraud will be a thing of the past. Card fraud seem to behave like a badly laid carpet underlay, you push the air out in one end and it pops up at another end. At least on the credit card front, a new Hi-tech card by Visa seem set to dramatically reduce credit card fraud if not eliminate it outright. The new Visa... [Read more]

Thomson Local – Express Way into Google Local Search & Invitation to Cold Calling

Thomson Local & Google Local Search If your product or services is targeted at a particular locality, having it appear in Google local business result listing is very important to driving high quality targeted organic traffic to your site. Aside from the usual algorithm Google uses to rank what site is it displays before which, it displays about 6-7 local businesses right at the top of search engine result page, giving such businesses and significant exposure. There are a number of ways to... [Read more]