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:: University Bans MySpace
04/28/2006
Del Mar College students now have to
use computers outside the school's system if they
want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com.
The community college has blocked the site in
response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed
on campus computers.
An investigation found that heavy traffic at
MySpace.com was eating up too much bandwidth.
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:: Web Award Nominations
Open
04/27/2006
Nominations are open for the 2006 WebAwards. The 2006 WebAwards
will name the best Website in 96 industry categories.
Nominate a website today!
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:: Google Paranoia?
04/26/2006
Anti-Google sentiment is on the rise. Web
pundits have tossed around monopoly theories and
privacy advocates have warned of a day of reckoning.
While Google has made friends on Wallstreet, it
has disappointed the technical evangelists who were
once its fiercest followers. Google has grown into
a big scary company and web watchers are expressing
their concerns about the information Google gleans
from their various services.
Google Paranoia, Or Cause for Concern?
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:: Yahoo Updated
04/26/2006
According to Yahoo's blog on Monday they
updated the search engine:
"We rolled out an index update last night. As
usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well
as some shuffling of the pages that are included
in the index. Those who follow these weather updates
may have noticed that they are occurring more frequently;
this is the result of improvements to the indexing
system."
The search community have not noticed any significant
changes as a result of the update.
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:: Critical Elements to a Good Press
Release
04/18/2006
Distributing a press release to editors
and news organizations is only half the battle.
Writing a press release that will be published by
the media is equally important. Press releases are
public relations opportunities. A well written press
release, can generate exposure in publications that
could be worth thousands in advertising dollars,
for a fraction of the cost.
Critical Elements to a Good Release
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:: Competitive Edge Newsletter
04/11/2006
Shareware Promotions has launched a new
newsletter, aimed to give web marketers the advantage
over their competition. Read the first issue of Competitive Edge.
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:: The Downside to Web Solutions
04/11/2006
Just one day after issuing a press release
hailing its high uptime over the past month, Salesforce.com
suffered a serious crash that left its hosted CRM
service unreachable for much of Thursday.
Salesforce.com's status page describes the outage
as beginning at 8:11 a.m. PDT yesterday, and attributes
it to a cache server overload. Restarting the servers
failed to resolve the problem, dragging the fix
time out beyond Salesforce.com's initial estimates.
Customer reports suggest the outage lasted several
hours.
Complete Article
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:: Innovative Ways to
Use RSS
04/11/2006
The core use for RSS is generally considered
news headlines and blog syndication, but innovative
businesses are learning to use RSS in different
ways. Consider RSS as a communication channel that
can provide current, targeted information as it
appears within a very targeted audience.
Interesting RSS Tools and Use
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