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Users increasingly diminish in their desire to contribute to social media sites

September 29, 2010 - 5:28am | Figures | News
Users increasingly diminish in their desire to contribute to social media sites

According to the recent data from Forrester Research the percentage of US Internet users contributing to social media sites decreased significantly as compared with the previous year.

This means that companies need to find ways to re-engage those U.S. Internet users who have stopped participating on their social media sites.


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Google launches Google New

September 23, 2010 - 5:24am | News | Other themes
Google launches Google New

A new website called Google New was launched to allow users learn about all of the latest offerings from the company. It will be a place for people to know about everything Google does from new products to acquisitions.

The offerings may be sorted by product or area of interest. By default, it shows the latest offerings for any given product. Areas of interest include business, developers, education, entertainment, geo and maps, mobile, non-profit, and social.


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Paymetric introduces new payments industry blog Payments U

September 9, 2010 - 10:05am | News | Payment systems
Paymetric introduces new payments industry blog Payments U

Leader in providing integrated and secure enterprise payment acceptance solutions, Paymetric, has introduced a new blog targeted for the payments industry under the name Payments U.

Paymetric has assembled a cabinet of select industry experts that will write about the latest payments industry news, trends, regulations and solutions, as well as engage in ongoing dialog with readers.

Experts who will be writing and participating at Payments U. include such industry notables as:


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How the Internet has changed in the US since 2000

December 29, 2009 - 7:30am | Figures | News
How the Internet has changed in the US since 2000

All around us is evidence that we've been living in a decade ruled by 1's and 0's. A household in the US is now 10 times more likely to have a broadband connection than in 2000. And analog cameras, music and media players have become quaint rarities during this past decade, replaced by their increasingly pervasive digital counterparts.


Here's a list that compares key data points from 2000 to 2009, or the latest available figures.


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Twitter was hit by DNS hijacking attack

December 18, 2009 - 9:02am | Fraud | News
Twitter was hit by DNS hijacking attack

A DNS hijacking attack left Twitter temporarily affected for about an hour early on Friday.

The initial attack has left many users scratching their heads while spreading the belief that Twitter's servers themselves were commandeered by hackers in the name of the "Iranian Cyber Army".

Not so.


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Google Checkout Store Gadget, a free option for businesses to open online store

September 8, 2009 - 4:45am | Articles | Other themes
Google Checkout Store Gadget, a free option for businesses to open online store

As many businesses today who want to join the world of ecommerce have scarce resources to do so they usually go to online auctions like eBay to pursue their online selling objectives. At the moment Google is testing a new system that allows people with little or no knowledge of programming and with no money to pay for such services to establish their own online shop for free. The search giant is conducting a pilot test of its new solution called Google Checkout Store Gadget.


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The right way to make money out of affiliate marketing

July 28, 2009 - 12:56pm | Articles | Other themes
The right way to make money out of affiliate marketing

If you are looking for online money making opportunities on the internet I am very sure that you must’ve heard of an affiliate marketing. There are many websites which claim that it is possible to make your internet riches through affiliate marketing and of course offer to teach the tricks of the trade for a small fee. Now it is not unusual for newcomers to the world of online money making to fall prey to such claims and spend money for more information.


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How to market affiliate program effectively and make money online consistently

July 1, 2009 - 8:00am | Articles | Other themes
How to market affiliate program effectively and make money online consistently

Affiliate marketing business centers on creating popular sites for your advertisers. These sites should generate frequent clicks to be beneficial for your clients. As an affiliate marketer it is your job to devise ways in which you can improve the visibility of your client site attracting more traffic, generating more clicks, and hence, make you more money online.


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CEOs of American companies don’t care for what their customers think?

June 25, 2009 - 3:31am | Figures | News
CEOs of American companies don’t care for what their customers think?

The research conducted by the blog UberCEO.com looked at Fortune's 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs to determine how many were using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, or had a blog and found they were mostly absent from the rapidly growing social media community. Only two CEOs had Twitter accounts and 81 percent of CEOs did not have a personal Facebook page.


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Why women love blogging?

June 5, 2009 - 5:00am | Analytics | Articles
Why women love blogging?

BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners conducted a research titled the “2009 Social Media Study” and found that women are turning to all sorts of social media for fun, entertainment, community and connection, says eMarketer. The report shows that 53% of the US female Internet population of 79 million actively participated in some type of social media at least on a weekly basis.


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Does your president run a personal blog?

May 11, 2009 - 8:00am | Analytics | Articles
Does your president run a personal blog?

President is a person who is simultaneously far from people and close to them. That is a person attracting the majority of nation’s attention as the head of the state. People want to know how their President lives, what are the new things he offers on the way of country development, his thoughts, his business and activity, his negotiations and his visits inside the country and overseas, etc.


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Brad Fitzpatrick, father of Life Journal and an Internet revolutionary

May 1, 2009 - 8:00am | Articles | Other themes
Brad Fitzpatrick, father of Life Journal and an Internet revolutionary

This month one of the most popular web portals LiveJournal celebrates its tenth anniversary. Originated on April 15, 1999, it powers a network of blogs, Web forums, social networking and content aggregation. For the majority of Americans the Live Journal became a part of their everyday life. LJ is mostly popular among the users from English-speaking countries, with 67% of the total grabbed by almost 4mn of US users.


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10 most terrible mistakes of a blogger

April 23, 2009 - 2:57am | Analytics | Articles
10 most terrible mistakes of a blogger

Probably everybody has tried to run his or her own blog. Someone does it for amusement, others to fulfill their hidden potential and some people make money on this. In any case there are lots of bloggers who make the same mistakes while launching their blogs and do not notice them for some reason. Let’s try to learn what dumps bloggers got on their heads and in what traps do the bloggers fall.


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A blogger who predicted Lehman Brothers’ collapse acquitted in South Korea

April 20, 2009 - 8:40am | Law aspects | News
A blogger who predicted Lehman Brothers’ collapse acquitted in South Korea

On Monday a South Korean court has acquitted Park Dae-sung, a blogger charged with spreading false information on the Internet under a mysterious pseudonym in case that questioned the freedom of speech on the web.

Park, 30, described himself as a former securities firm employee with a master's degree obtained in the United States and experience in the field of corporate acquisitions.


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How to create a highly readable blog and to make money on it?

April 15, 2009 - 8:00am | Analytics | Articles
How to create a highly readable blog and to make money on it?

Any person who spends a few hours a day in front of a computer has probably thought of creating his or her own blog where he/she could write something for him- or herself and make money on it. Let’s leave those who create blogs only for fun and just to speak out, and turn to the topic how to create your own interesting blog which will be popular with a great number of people and which will make you richer.  


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