Friday, November 30, 2007What Are People Searching For Online?
Anybody in the online business game knows that Google is by far the most-used search engine out there. But by just how much? Well, to cite one recent report (by the online information company known as Hitwise), Google accounts for a whopping 63.55 percent of all U.S. searches as of September 2007.
Hitwise, an Experian subsidiary [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2007Google Takes on Renewable Energy
Google, the giant that towers over the Internet, is getting into the Green Game. From yesterday’s New York Times:
Google said it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars, part of that to hire engineers and energy experts to investigate alternative energies like solar, geothermal and wind power. The effort is aimed at reducing Google’s own [...]
Wednesday, November 28, 2007The Strange New Names of Online Business
Writing in today’s Washington Post, Mr. Paul Farhi brings up an interesting point about many of the companies that currently dominate the online business world. To paraphrase: Some of these new company names are getting pretty crazy.
Among the many things the Internet has added recently to contemporary life, there is this: Many grown-ups now sound [...]
Tuesday, November 27, 2007How to Make Money on Affiliate Programs: The Dos and Don’ts from About.com
Once again, we turn to About.com’s Ana Rincon for insight into one of the key elements of running a successful and self-sustaining online business.
This time, Ms. Rincon provides a rundown of website affiliate programs, and explains how an aspiring web entrepreneur can use them to his or her advantage.
From the article:
Don’t have a product or [...]
Monday, November 26, 2007ZDNet and the NY Times on Amazon Kindle and Facebook
If you’re looking for an overview on the reviews greeting Amazon.com’s latest produict offering (the Kindle), this blog post by Dan Farber over at ZDNet does a great job of compiling some of the most interesting of them.
It also runs down some reactions to Facebook’s new Project Beacon. Some of the outcry against this new [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2007Microsoft Already Applying Lessons Learned From Vista
Mary Jo Foley, writing in her ZDNet blog “An unblinking eye on Microsoft,” recently provided an insider’s scoop into how Microsoft is already applying the lessons it learned from its recent Vista model launch towards the development of its next platform, Windows 7:
First and foremost: Keep Windows architectural changes to a minimum. And secondly, be [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007The New York Times Joins the “Software as a Service” Buzz
The buzz surrounding the concept of “Software as a Service” (or SaaS, as it’s more often called) is getting pretty loud.
Similar to the concept of “Web 2.0″, SaaS is, according to Wikipedia, “a software application delivery model where a software vendor develops a web-native software application and hosts and operates (either independently or through a [...]
Monday, November 19, 2007The Washington Post on “Blog Diplomacy”
Hey, Internet cruisers: Are you by any chance looking for yet another story examining how blogging is becoming the new standard for communications in the twenty-first century?
We thought so!
Walter Pincus, national security and intelligence reporter for the Washington Post, writes today of an interesting and relatively new tactic that the U.S. government has been implementing [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007Famous Hacker Reveals Security Flaws in Oracle, SQL Servers
A survey by renowned database hacker David Litchfield has found a whopping 492,000 Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers directly accessible to the Internet without firewall protection.
Today we link up with another ZDNet blog, this one written by Ryan Naraine and outlining yesterday’s disturbing story about a well-known hacker’s revelation that 492,000 Oracle and SQL [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007The NY Times Asks: “Will Success Spoil Firefox?”
Most readers probably already know about the incredible, and encouraging, success of Mozilla’s open-source Firefox web browser.
For the benefit of those who don’t:
Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could — an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world without the benefit of a giant company like [...]