Web News and Blogs

Pingdom recently posted the results of a study they had just completed regarding the top 100 blogs on the Internet (WordPress completely dominates  top 100 blogs). They chose the top 100 blogs from the  Technorati Top 100. We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the to

The Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce held its Distinguished Speakers Breakfast this morning. Presenter was Steve Vinter, Director at Google. Mr. Vinter is a relaxed presenter with a sense of humor. He kept the crowd’s attention using his humor and switching topics fairly frequently. He spoke

Been writing in your blog for a while and stuck for fresh ideas? A number of blog topics are commonly recommended and  they are listed below,  BUT, my number one recommendation is to look at the statistics (Awstats, Webalizer, etc. statistics programs loaded in your admin, and/or your Google Analyti

CNET reports that Twitter has admitted to saving more than your tweets when you use their app on your smartphone. Twitter is uploading your contact data and browser history and saving it on their servers for 18 months.  For what reason??? A spokesperson for Twitter says that in the next release(s) o

Today, a break from writing about WordPress and blogs to tell you about a great spam-filtering software tool that I (now) recommend. One of the tasks I had scheduled for Business Infrastructure Week  (the week between Christmas and New Years) was to evaluate MailWasher Pro. How did MailWasher Pro ge

Last week, I posted questions for you to be able to test your SEO knowledge. Today, I post the answers. It is impossible to do SEO without updating the pages at my website TRUE - SEO is an intrusive process. Yes, some of the tasks like increasing your inbound links lie outside of the website, but eq

We’ve got that week coming up – the one between Christmas and New Year’s. Usually a slow week with regard to customer interaction, so, I plan business infrastructure projects for that week; upgrade software, research & test software; transfer one of  my websites, etc. This year, I have that week pla