Cuil: Rival Search Engine From Ex-Googlers
Wednesday July 30, 2008
Cuil, pronounced "cool", is a search engine that made its debut last Monday to much hype.
The early assessment from around the Web is that Cuil is nowhere near as useful ... Read More
10 Tips for Building a Successful Blog
Tuesday July 29, 2008
If you are thinking about launching a blog -- whether as a profit making entity on its own or as a marketing tool for your business -- keep these 10 ... Read More
How Do I Sell Advertising On My Blog?
Tuesday July 22, 2008
Lynn Truong, sales director of blog network Killer Aces Media*, spoke at the BlogHer 08 conference this past weekend. While preparing for her panel discussion on blog monetization, we ... Read More
Online Biz Roundup 7/20/08: BlogHer Edition
Sunday July 20, 2008
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The BlogHer '08 conference wrapped up today in San Francisco. Over 1,000 women bloggers (and a few male ones including yours truly) ... Read More
Where Can I Find Paid Blogging Jobs?
Friday July 18, 2008
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Bloggers are in hot demand now. If you can publish high quality, SEO friendly, 200-500 word posts on a regular basis, there's a blog network ... Read More
What is DNS?
Thursday July 17, 2008
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DNS stands for "Domain Name System". It is the phone book of the Internet. DNS maps the human-readable hostname (www.about.com) with the responsible server's ... Read More
Top 42 Most Useful Firefox Addons
Wednesday July 16, 2008
After I downloaded Firefox 3, I spent some time checking out the extensions at the Firefox Add-ons repository. There are a ton of great extensions there. Unfortunately, there ... Read More
Online Biz Roundup 7/13/08: iPhone 3G Edition
Sunday July 13, 2008
Last Friday, Apple released the iPhone 3G and their new iPhone App Store. In other news, Yahoo rejected another offer from Microsoft and eBay may be banning luxury goods ... Read More
What is Microblogging? (And Where Do I Get Started?)
Thursday July 10, 2008
Microblogging refers to the posting of very short updates about oneself. It is in contrast to long-form blogging, where there are usually at least a few hundred words. ... Read More
6 Copywriting Tips for Customer Conversion
Wednesday July 9, 2008
The key to your online business is attracting and converting website visitors. Writing effective copy is an under-utilized way of doing it, according to Scott Fox, author of Internet ... Read More
What Do You Watch on YouTube? (Online Biz Roundup 7/6/08)
Sunday July 6, 2008
We're about to find out. Web privacy issues were raised this week when a judge ordered YouTube to turn over data on what users are watching. That news, ... Read More
Top 5 Attributes of Successful CEOs
Saturday July 5, 2008
Many of you are the CEOs of your company. You may be a CEO of one, but you're in charge of the business nonetheless. Your role as CEO ... Read More
What is phishing?
Thursday July 3, 2008
Phishing is a common type of email fraud where the perpetrator send unsuspecting users a message asking for some personal information.
The email often starts by stating there is some time ... Read More
Firefox 3 Makes the Web Faster (and 4 Other Reasons to Download It Today)
Wednesday July 2, 2008
Mozilla Firefox 3 has been the most anticipated Web browser upgrade for months. When it was released on June 17, over 8 million people downloaded it in the first ... Read More