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The logo for Cooperative Linux, more popularly known as coLinux, sums up the attempted approach to the platform. Placing the Windows logo and Linux penguin in opposite ends of the yin yang summarizes not just this software, but the problem it is attempting to address. With a few UNIX, Macintosh and...
Posted on October 18th, 2011 in Web Hosting Types
Tags: Linux, Unix, Windows, Wubi, X server
All right, you win. We give in. Yes, you’re interested in browser standards and security protocol and upgrades to scripting languages and all of that. You’re also interested in blowing up pigs with a group of cheesed off birds. Who isn’t? We’re going to take a time out...
Posted on October 18th, 2011 in Random Stuff
Tags: Air Hockey Gold, Angry Birds, Doodle God, freeware, Hole in the Wall, iPad, Paper Toss, Plants vs. Zombies, Tilt To Live
Facebook, Twitter, and probably soon Google+, get most of the analysis of the social networking world. With that comes most of the attention of advertisers. This is the billion-user World Wide Web, though. For every bar that all the cool kids are hanging out at, there are plenty of local bars near...
Posted on October 15th, 2011 in SEO / SEM
Tags: CafeMom, Care2, deviantART, Link Expats, social networking, Stickam
Was it just a few years ago that BlackBerry got the kind of endorsement that marketers dream at night of? Then-candidate for President Barack Obama revealed that even he had fallen for the allure of the “Crackberry.” Estimates are that the company made another $25-$50 million just on that word...
Posted on October 15th, 2011 in Random Stuff
Tags: blackberry, Mike Lazaridis, RIM
We’ve focused a lot in this column about how popular cloud hosting is becoming. We haven’t yet talked much about where you might want to go if you are interested in a good cloud host. It’s about time we attended to this oversight. Below are some of the best cloud-based hosts that...
Posted on October 14th, 2011 in Web Hosting Types
Tags: cloud, GoGrid, Joyent, Rackspace, ReliaCloud, StratoGen, TerreMark
Do you know what’s one wonderful thing about history? At any moment in time society is caught up in countless evolving trends that will be fascinating some day to the historian. While you’re living in them, though, they can be difficult to see. This is not a bad thing. It’s...
Posted on October 14th, 2011 in Mobile World
Tags: Amazon, Amazon Silk, cloud, ecommerce, Kindle, Kindle fire, split browser
In its short life, the internet has gone through a number of geological ages. Terms like “Net 2.0” have been coined to place markers on these transition points. Another one is starting to make its rounds, and unlike most of its predecessors it is coined more from a sense of foreboding than hope. ...
Posted on October 13th, 2011 in Random Stuff
Tags: net 2.0, splinternet
It’s amazing how fast the iPad has gone from just entering the marketplace to having a huge place in the market. Just a year and a half since its introduction, and we’re already well past iPad 2. Even Rocky didn’t make sequels that fast. With it has naturally come a flood of fancy...
Posted on October 13th, 2011 in Tools
Tags: Beat the Traffic HD, Clinometer HD, freeware, Gowalla, iPad, pulse news, Trapster speed trap alerts
If it seems some days that we focus a little heavily on Facebook when discussing things World Wide Web in the 2010′s, it’s not because we’re personally addicted to Bejeweled Blitz. We are, but that’s beside the point. A recent study released by EMarketer officially tolled the...
Posted on October 13th, 2011 in SEO / SEM
Tags: ad response rates, advertising, EMarketer, Facebook, market targeting, Social Impressions, target audience, Unique Impressions
If you are considering the mighty migration from Windows to try out Linux that you hear is so popular, you might expect there to be a few types to choose from. You might not quite expect that “a few” numbers in the hundreds! Linux’s open source nature has made it a serious programmer’s...
Posted on October 13th, 2011 in Random Stuff
Tags: Debian, Fedora, Knoppix, Linux, Red Hat, Slackware, Slax, Ubuntu, Unix
Cloud technology is evolving so quickly that it’s near impossible to keep up with all of its developments. We’re not even going to try ourselves. Let’s instead do a brief news summary of some of the biggest recent advances in this field. China flies further into the cloud Hewlett-Packard...
Posted on October 12th, 2011 in Web Hosting News
Tags: analytics, Buddy Platform, cloud, Cloud9, Hewlett-Packard, Linux, virtualization, WeVideo