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Off to Speak at SES Chicago

Brrr!  I am off to Chicago in the morning to speak at SES. Temperatures below freezing and snow already on the ground.  For a little African lizard like me used to blazing heat it's way too cold.  I bought myself some thermal underwear and pulled out my down parka and off I go.

Downtime Can Wreck SEO Efforts

Unreliable access to one's website when spiders come crawling could result in being dropped from a search engine's index.

Strangers A 'Cost of Doing Business' On MySpace

The latest report from Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms what might be common sense about teens and social networking, but also has a couple of surprises. The not-a-shocker news: photos and social networking profiles increase the likelihood your son or daughter is approached by a creep.

Social Media Marketing and Fitting In

The last decade brought two related surprises: the rise of social media and the rise of search media, says a new study from the Harvard Business School. Marketing is struggling to find its place in these new communication pathways, says the report. 

Google's Solar Panels Power Up

Some time ago, Google announced that it would install a number of solar panels on the much-discussed Googleplex.  Those panels are now in place, on, and, according to the company, generating “an electricity output capable of powering approximately 1,000 average California homes.”

Online Reputation Management Gone Wrong

Jennifer Laycock explains why not all online reputation management services are created equal.

MySpace Develops Parental Monitoring Software

In recent times, MySpace and sexual predators have become closely associated terms in the minds of parents and lawmakers across the nation. The social networking site is currently developing software designed to allow parents to more closely monitor their children's MySpace activities.

Simple Tool for Website Monitoring

For quite a while now, I have needed a simple website monitoring tool that would check the uptime of my websites.

ASP.NET 2.0: Health Monitoring

The ASP.NET 2.0 provider model has once again amazed me.

Got Monitoring? Pingdom Has It

A Christmas gift from Sweden for webmasters and server administrators offers a free year of website monitoring, without strings attached.