Archive of the Category 'General'

How do I find quality backlinks?

Monday, den 19. April 2010

Link generation is the primary method to increase both your search engine positioning and also your traffic. When it comes to the inbound links themselves, they can be in various formats. Ideally, you should be obtaining different types of one-way links to your websites to increase the diversity. The following are a few examples of [...]

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Is youtube down? – Http/1.1 Service Unavailable error for youtube

Thursday, den 25. March 2010

It seems that as of 25th March at 12pm (GMT) Youtube.com is down and is returning an “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” error. Is the internet falling apart? wikipedia, google analytics, twitter and now youtube, which site is going to break next?

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Not all URL Shortening services are the same

Thursday, den 18. March 2010

WatchMouse a Dutch web-monitoring company, looked at popular URL shortening services for a period of one month and then analyzed the results. WatchMouse found that a large amount of variance in the quality of services with 100% uptime and low latency on one end and shaky uptime and long latency on the other. Shortening service [...]

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Pink Floyd Win Digital Battle!

Friday, den 12. March 2010

Thanks to a High Court ruling that gave Pink Floyd a small victory over record label EMI in a battle over millions in royalties, individual tracks of the legendary rock band’s music could potentially leave the digital world at some point. The High Court’s ruling was based on a clause in Pink Floyd’s contract with EMI [...]

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10 years since The Dotcom Bubble

Thursday, den 11. March 2010

Wow, 10 years today since the bursting of the dotcom bubble!  Great post here from Robin Goad from Hitwise about how the Internet landscape has changed over the last decade: “Below is a list of the top 20 websites in the UK last week, with Google and Facebook topping the list. Back in the heyday [...]

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Bigmouthmedia merger with LBi

Thursday, den 25. February 2010

Big news today folks…big news for the Bigmouths at Bigmouthmedia that is.  I saw the tweets come flooding in this morning at about 9am, shortly followed by the official press release which reported the merger of LBi and Netherlands-based Obtineo (amalgamation of Bigmouthmedia plus €40m from capital investors) and I have to say it’s no [...]

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China Busts it’s Biggest Hacker School

Monday, den 8. February 2010

China can’t seem to keep out of the news about hacking and cyberwar can it? The country’s police have scored a positive news report, however: They’ve closed down the nation’s biggest hacker training school. It does raise some questions though. The action went down in Hubei province in Central China, and three people were arrested [...]

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France Considers Tax for Search Giants

Friday, den 8. January 2010

The BBC report that France are considering charging Tax for Google, Yahoo and Facebook. See below for a quote from the BBC website: “Google and other net firms could be taxed under plans being considered by the French government. A report, commissioned by the government, suggests firms such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook should pay [...]

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Amazon drop £25 Million Royal Mail Contract

Friday, den 9. October 2009

Amazon have pulled its £25m contract with Royal Mail as strike action threatens deliveries in the run-up to Christmas. The online retailer has cancelled its long-term contract with Royal Mail for parcels over 500 grams, which will instead be delivered by rival service Home Delivery Network (HDN), currently used by Tesco and Argos…Read the rest [...]

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What are Browsers? by Google

Wednesday, den 7. October 2009

Jason Toff has blogged about browsers and how they work on the Google Blog, below is a short video which is sure to help anyone who still doesnt quite get it! Read more here.

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