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Internet Explorer 8 Was Almost Designed To Block Ads

Posted by admin on August 3, 2010 at 5:03 pm.

According to the Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ), Internet explorer 8 was to be designed to block all ads, tracking and other features unless a user LOWERED their security level settings. Coders argued that with IE constantly loosing marketshare, this would be arguing FOR the user and for end consumer.

Executives in Microsoft’s new ad business were upset when the designers of Internet Explorer hatched the plan to block tracking activity, say people involved in the debate. At a meeting in the spring of 2008, Brian McAndrews, a Microsoft senior vice president who had been chief executive of aQuantive before Microsoft acquired it, complained to the browser planners. Their privacy plan, he argued, would disrupt the selling of Web ads by Microsoft and other companies, these people say.

Of course, Google (GooG) has their own conflict of interest issue when it comes to privacy concerns and their current browser Google Chrome. The only browser that escapes this conflict of interest is Mozilla Firefox with it’s “no script” and “adblock” type plugins.

Blogging, Facebook, News, Twitter, Wordpress Tips

Why WordPress Could Change Your Business

Posted by admin on August 2, 2010 at 9:07 pm.

Don’t you want something totally customizable, FAST, efficient and automated that would do everything your web designer does (Charging you $20 dollars or more per hour!) totally free?

Wordpress is Just That!

Some might think it’s just a blogging engine, but it’s way more than that. Our team has built entire websites (non-blogs) using the Wordpress engine and many other businesses around the web have as well. It’s not right for 100% everyone, but I’ll tell you who it *IS* right for and why in my opinion, until your websites are making over $500,00o pear year, you should probably be using it too.

Who is Wordpress for?

  • Limited budget projects
    It’s open source, meaning it’s totally free to use. There are thousands of developers, coders and designers that can create plugins, themes, designs and layouts for you at a fraction of the cost of starting from ground zero on a brand new website.
  • Limited Time projects
    A WordPress website can be designed and launched in a week or so with most scenarios. You’re not remaking the wheel and there’s a plugin for almost everything.
  • Limited Staff companies
    Small companies where the person who writes the newspaper articles also signs the cheques will love WordPress. It lets you edit the entire website yourself. It also requires no technical skill to manage.

Why use wordpress?

  • 202 Million People can’t be wrong
    There are currently over 202 Million websites in the USA alone using Wordpress as either a blog or a management engine. If there’s ever a problem, you can bet someone else has had that problem too.  Google it, they’ve probably posted the answer.
  • Open Source
    Thousands of coders are feverishly hunting through lines of code digging up ways of improving it. How cool is that, and all entirely free. Gratis!
  • Easy to Use
    With the Paste-from-Word feature, anyone who can use Microsoft Word, can write and post an entry to their website/blog. Hey, if you (or someone on your staff) can’t use Microsoft Word, you gotta ask how you’ll stay in business in the first place!
  • Automated Backups
    There are plugins you can install that will email you an entire site backup every single day! This way, if a hacker or some server glitch shuts down your website or blog, it’s fixable in 15-20 minutes tops!
  • Way cheaper!
    Consider having developers custom code you a website that has built in RSS (For news), a web editor you can easily use, 10,000 plugins, 5,000 free themes in case you don’t like how it looks, one click install for everything, twitter feeds, facebook like, twitter re-tweet buttons, comment and testimonial abilities, SEO functions etc… Can you say $15,000+ go down the drain? Yup!
  • Community Support
    The wordpress community of posters are online 24/7 to answer even the silliest of questions. They charge nothing, they’re support never ends and there are thousands of them. Tired of hearing “Your call is important to us…” when calling support? Try posting a question on the WordPress site, you’ll see a big difference.
  • Platform Independant
    It works on Windows servers, Mac Servers, Linux servers. Put it anywhere, migrate anywhere. It won’t limit what you can do with it…
  • Schedule your Posts/Pages
    Imagine posting a new post or page to your website every day for a week.. You could write them all on one day and then set the post dates for whatever you like and it will publish them on the day you asked it to!
  • Search Engines Love Wordpress
    They really do, even Google’s Matt Cutts uses WordPress on his own website. The RSS feature lets search engines know the second you post new material and the built in sitemap functions let them know if they’ve indexed everything or not.
  • Blog without a computer!
    Wordpress has an application for iPhone, Blackberry and Android phones. You can litterally write blog posts or website edits from anywhere on almost any device in the world using the RPC feature. It’s super easy… Just remember your username and password and go!
  • 10,000 Plugins!
    Contact forms, polls, twitter, facebook,  display the news, have a calendar, image galleries, life streams, feeds, youtube, Salesforce integration etc.

If this all sounds great, but it’s greek to you. You should touch base with us and see if we can help. We do offer a completely free initial consultation or 3 page report depending on your situation.