How Greed Wrecked Digg

Digg, the social news sharing website used to be my first stop every morning when I wanted to check out what was happening in the world. Now, like many of the other casual users of the site, I’ve stopped bothering with it. I’ve had enough of the artificial ranking of non-newsworthy articles, and […]


Video streaming in the Internet

Nowadays, more and more people are being addicted to watch videos online. It is a great way to watch your favorite videos without the need to consume much of your disk space. Unlike other websites that host videos for download, you can watch the videos for free! Even if the quality of the videos found […]


What is Web2.0?

Over the past two years or so there has been a huge buzz around the idea of web 2.0, and what it means for businesses around the world. It has become fashionable for companies to upgrade their sites to be web 2.0, and there are consultancy firms who advise businessmen about way s in […]


Are users being put first?

OK, so many people make their living online, and you can’t go through a week without hearing about the latest garage coder from Silicon Valley selling off his web real estate for a billion dollars, but there are also many thousands of internet millionaires too, who produce sites that do not put the users interests […]


Apple Safari Browser for Windows

The browser market is about to get very crowded, with the impending release of Apple’s Safari product on Windows. Apple has previously stayed clear of taking on Microsoft, but thanks to the recent release of the Zune, which Apple executives have taken as a declaration of war, the Apple board have sanctioned the developers […]


Chatting in the Internet

The Internet has been a very powerful innovation for this generation. It was able to open doors for all of us and provide means of earning money, communicating and information gathering. It could be hailed as a new world created for humans to allow us to move around when our present world seems to be […]


Ask is brilliant, why does no-one use it?

I’ve been using the Internet as a source of information and as a shopping mall for more than a decade now, and over that period of time, I’ve seen many companies come and go, one time giants such as Alta Vista have fallen by the wayside or been taken over, and Google has come to […]


Is Adsense Finished?

Thanks to the mass of click fraud that is being reported across the content network of sites displaying Google Adsense advertisements, along with the practice of building made for Adsense (MFA) websites that clutter up the search engine results pages, many industry insiders are suggesting that huge changes could be coming to protect advertisers from […]


Getting more out of Google

Google may well be the world’s most popular search engine, and apparently, it now accounts for more than 50% of all searches carried out online. It has become an indispensable tool for people looking for information, but in the past few years, it has also developed in a number of new ways and is […]


Directory Listings

For any websites, directory listings are an excellent way of getting both back links to boost Pagerank for search engine result positions, as well as being a useful source of traffic in their own right.  A link from the correct page in a well structured directory that provides a high level of editorial control to […]