MySpace .. YouTube, the real transformers of the web

The web is only 15 years old and it transformed the world. The first website, ever, was published in late 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee and has been preserved for the future by W3C and you can see a copy of it here. Since then, websites have changed…

LinX BoX

This Friday’s Top 3 interesting sites I visited this week: WordTracker URL Trends Hairy Mail This list is published every Friday and values originality. Submit your suggestions for next week as comments. And don't forget my…

What is Social Media Optimization

Being a website owner or just writing a blog, like I do here, seems to be getting scarier. SEO - “Search engine optimization”, SMO -“Social media optimization”, “Content is King”, the right content to the right audience … wow,…

LinX BoX

This Friday’s Top 3 interesting sites I visited this week: PriceSpider greenphone 23andme This list is published every Friday and values originality. Submit your proposals for next week as comments. And don't forget me at…

Survive the confusion

There are 122,000,635 sites out there according to NetCraft and the key activities are now picture sharing, videos, blogging, forums, reviews, social networking and .. communities. It's a lot of place to lose yourself in and, as much as it looks…

Web 2.0 websites for rookies

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This age of the internet is all about decentralization. Only a few years ago, during the “bursting of the dot-com bubble”, almost an entire generation concluded that the internet is over hyped and turned its attention elsewhere, thus leaving…

Conquering website basics

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The web site is your magazine. You are publishing a highly interactive collection of columns on any subject you can think of, providing that the web site sticks to a certain content category. The webmaster is the publisher, the designer is…

What do I need a web presence for?

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Before you go any further in building a web presence, you need to answer an obvious question: “What do I need a web presence for?” This also includes the answer to: “What am I going to do with my website after I publish it?”.You may…

Beware of hosting scams

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If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is! Let’s begin exploring the hosting traps you may encounter out there by clarifying the basics about hosting and hosts. All hosting companies enjoy the same basic limitations, no matter…