Let me begin by saying that Adobe Flash is very far from falling out of use. Conservative estimates say 95% of Web users have Adobe Flash Player installed. The number of websites that employ Flash is harder to estimate, but most would put the number between 25% and 50%. And as this website so succinctly [...]

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“The Cloud” has become a major buzzword over the last year or two, and cloud computing promises to play an important role on the Internet and in business over the next few years. If you’re still a little confused by all the buzz, here are some helpful resources to take you from Cloud-confused to Cloud-conscious.

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Happy New Year, everyone! What better time is there than New Years to set resolutions and make predictions about what’s to come? For a blog post this week, I thought I would make some predictions about the future of online marketing and how it may change over the next five to ten years. It will [...]

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Data security was in the news in a big way last week. First, major news outlets reported Thursday morning that Iraqi insurgents were using $30, off-the-shelf software to hack into the video feed created by U.S. spy planes flying over the country. Apparently the data these planes were capturing was being sent back to the [...]

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Yes, Google announced today that every user, signed in or not, will be receiving personalized results based on their search history. Users still have the right to opt-out of this service, but realistically speaking, very few people will do so (it turns out most people don’t care about search results nearly as much as we [...]

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Corporations spend millions to ensure that their online networks and servers are secure. However, Web security at the application level is often ignored, or at least underrated. This is unfortunate, because today, most security breaches online occur through the application rather than the server. Last year, the Gartner Group reported that “75% of cyber-attacks and [...]

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Online merchants are paying $30/mo fee for not being PCI Compliant – Are You?

Are you being charged?
Many online credit card processors are now charging merchants monthly fees for not being PCI Compliant.      Most haven’t even caught onto this fee because they are not notified, don’t receive paper statements, and never review their online statement [...]

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As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now, Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally reached an agreement to merge their search technologies in an effort to “bring competition to the search engine market” (stick it to Google). This story was all over the Web yesterday, with thousands of bloggers eager and willing to provide all the [...]

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I thought I’d take a few of the interesting things I came across today from around the Web, and put them in a blog post. If you like this format, let me know in the comments, and I’ll do it more often (maybe once a week). If you don’t like it, and want me to [...]

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This won’t be a long post, but I wanted to offer a quick thought for your Friday afternoon. If you’ve logged into Twitter at some point in the past day or so, you might have noticed “IE6 Must Die” in the Trending Topics list.

In case you’ve forgotten, this serves as the perfect reminder that the [...]

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