It has been interesting and educational two months; I had the chance to use several major CDN services on SlashGear. Choosing the right CDN is a matter of pricing/budget, delivery technology or features and POP availability. The CDN vendors I had the opportunity to try are MaxCDN, InterNAP, Highwinds, Akamai, and EdgeCast. MaxCDN has the [...]
Microsoft has just released the latest version of its popular web browser. Those who choose to download Internet Explorer 8 will enjoy several new measures that were designed to protect your privacy while you browse the web. These measures just might have a negative impact on web advertisers which rely on collecting data from web [...]
Tag: advertising, applications, internet, microsoft, privacy, software
There are many sites that have added the functionality of Meebo so that their users can take advantage of the chat service. This is great for sites like Flixster because their users are not forced to navigate away from the site if they want to chat online with another person. It now appears that Meebo [...]
Tag: advertising, internet, services, web 2.0
Local web advertising has proven to be a valuable market over that last few years. Their target was primarily larger businesses that helped this market grow at lightning fast speeds. That is until the recession began to set in and marketing budgets started to tighten. This has left many web advertisers looking for a new [...]
Tag: advertising, internet, web
Many smaller companies find it difficult to determine what makes the most sense in terms of advertising. As these companies all have a limited marketing budget, it is important that the money is spent in the best possible way to promote the company. A new report indicates that many smaller companies are spending their marketing [...]
Tag: advertising, Business, internet, marketing
It was not long ago that email was the latest rage and everyone was using it. While it still remains extremely popular today, many people are using their email less frequently and turning to social media networks to keep in touch with friends and family instead. Nielsen Online conducted an interesting study which looked at [...]
Tag: email, internet, media, social network
In a surprising effort to increase the crime fighting potential of police departments, several are joining social networking sites in an attempt to cross the traditional jurisdictional boundaries that exist. There are plenty of web 2.0 applications that the police are turning to including Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube. Some people might be surprised to [...]
Tag: internet, legal, social network
When I moved Aradius Network to SoftLayer, we received 2000GB bandwidth allocation each server. We don’t use much of our public bandwidth on MySQL server as we connect to it using internal private IP, however I can’t say the same for our web server. Based on last month usage (May), our web server has used [...]
