TechRadar.com reports today that ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names, is relaxing its rules for Top Level Domains next year. With billions of web sites populating the Internet it’s really no wonder ICANN are doing this – I can’t remember the last time I registered the exact domain that I or a client wanted. [...]

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May was a very good month for Facebook; With 123 million unique visitors in May to MySpace’s 114.6 million, Facebook has become the king of the social networking hill! Seeing an increase of 162% on May 2007 compared to only 5% for MySpace it’s no contest as to which of the Social networks is the [...]

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A lot is usually made of the scalability of Ruby on Rails applications, usually leaning toward the negative. ZDNet spoke to LinkedIn about their viral application, called BumperSticker, for Facebook which sees in the region of 1 billion page views a month! Read the article on ZDNet.com here…

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Childnet International is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to keep children safe when using the Internet. The open-ness and accessibility of the Internet by anyone from anywhere unfortunately means the Internet has become the hunting ground for those who prey on children. One way in which children can be protected when using the [...]

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With the credit crunch truly making itself felt, retailers should be pulling out all the stops to get eyeballs on their products and making sales. Gartner research found that UK retailers are missing a trick by not using Social Networking as a marketing tool. With social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo getting so much [...]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post Firefox 3 has been released with many an improvement. With more than 15,000 (yes, you read that right!) improvements over the venerable Firefox v2, the good people at the Mozilla foundation have put together a field guide to bring us fans even more joy from using Firefox 3. [...]

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Yep, Firefox 3 is here! The latest incarnation of the web browser sports many new and improved features; in true community spirit Mozilla have heard their customers and acted to create the most advanced web browser to date. All this excitement may seem a little silly but after years of using the backward and cumbersome [...]

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I know this has nothing, well almost nothing, to do with Internet-related business but I’m so impressed with this site and its founders that I just had to write about it. For those of you who may not know of it, Rails is a web development framework built using the programming language Ruby. The framework [...]

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As an entrepreneur, it’s very likely you have many good business ideas but don’t have the focus or even the time to make them all work. Sometimes it becomes clear, midway through setting up a business based on an idea, that the current idea may not work as well as a business compared to another [...]

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It goes without saying that at the present time the most influential search engine on the web is Google and keeping that in mind there is some very important documentation the boffins at Google have created that every web-site owner should read and be aware of when having their web sites designed and built. Written [...]

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Have you noticed the new Google favicon (the icon that appears in your web browser’s address bar e.g. the blue/green cube for Cynergise) when using Google web sites? Well, in case you’re interested in what the back story to the change from a capital ‘G’ to the small ‘g’ is, follow this link to Google’s [...]

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Are you a serious facebooker? Spend hours at a time catching up with friends? Wouldn’t it be great it you got paid for doing it? Well, now you can! urTurn.com offers a reward scheme where you earn points for posting pictures to Facebook (and MySpace soon too) and writing on friends’ walls. The points can [...]

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This month DreamHost announced the addition of Drupal to their software suite of  1-click installs. Their one-click install system makes it as easy as is possible to add all kinds of web software to your web site like WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Zen Cart and now Drupal. Drupal is a PHP/MySQL based content management system, and [...]

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When shopping online, you’ll have noticed most if not all shopping carts have a “enter coupon code here” section before you checkout. Many online retailers give out, for promotional reasons or otherwise, discount coupon codes to be used in just that spot. currentcodes.com is a service that researches and maintains a database of discount coupon [...]

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Research has found that many Britons don’t know where their loved ones are traveling to and have no way to get in touch with them in case of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. The UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office has launched a new service called Locate where Britons traveling abroad can register details of [...]

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