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For the past four years I have been managing and updating Bloggers.ca andtoday, I am putting the domain name up for sale. This blogging portal brings in alot of traffic everyday and I just don't have the time to maintain itanymore. The site is listed as No. 1 on Google.ca, out of over 72 millionother blogging websites, using the generic keyword "bloggers". It's the most generic bloggers' domain name in the .ca (Canadian) extension, and it is overfour years old! The domain also enjoys a very strong Google PR 5 ranking!The asking price is only US $50,000 and I've already received firm offers of$47,500. This domain will be worth well over $150,000 in 4 or 5 years from now!First come, first served!Interested parties,drop us a line.Thank you for your support.Bloggers.caNews for November 30, 2004:
The Register serves banner malware
Technology news site The Register today identified its ad serving provider, Falk AG, as the source of banner ads which spread an IFRAME exploit via its web site for more than six hours Saturday. The Register apologized to its readers and recommended that they check their machines for infections. Reports Saturday noted that the exploit appeared mostly on numerous European sites. It was also noted that some U.S sites may have been affected as well. Click here to read it all.News for November 26, 2004:
Is it ok to use a desktop search tool?
Desktop search features and newer computer indexing tools such as Google's Desktop Search could cause security risks.The reason is simply because companies that use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL protocol) to remote access or VPN, these protocols could copy content accessed during any SSL session and make it available to anybody that later uses the same computer.Caches created by PC search tools get around the security many SSL vendors have put in place to purge cached data from remote machines as secure sessions shut down. These so-called cache-cleaning agents wipe out temporary files created during SSL sessions, but they don't wipe out the copies made by the search tools. Read the story here.News for November 23, 2004:
Firefox getting more and more popular
A recent survey showed Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is slipping below 90 percent market share, in favor of Firefox. OneStat.com, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based provider of Web traffic measurement services, said that according to numbers gleaned from 2 million Web surfers around the world, the Mozilla Foundation's new Firefox releases appear to be cutting into Microsoft's still commanding lead in the browser market. "It seems that people are switching from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's new Firefox browser," Niels Brinkman, OneStat.com co-founder, said in a statement.Read it all here.News for November 15, 2004:
'Net advertising to reach $9.4 billion in 2004
The Internet is now the nation's fastest-growing advertising medium, with sales expected to reach a record $9.4 billion this year -- up 16 percent from the bubble days. What's more, Internet research firm eMarketer expects companies will nearly double their annual Web ad spending by 2008. Click here for the whole story.News for November 10, 2004:
31.5 million households are currently banking online
It is estimated that 31.5 million households are currently banking online, and that number is expected to rise to 45.0 million by the end of 2007. According to the new eMarketer Interactive Banking report, the success of online banking is in fact creating a crisis at many banking institutions.Customers have unquestionably adapted to online banking services � they use them, like them, even demand them � but far too many banks are still struggling with how to integrate interactive banking into their other customer service channels.Click here for the whole story.News for November 2, 2004:
Online sales to reach $21.6 billion this Christmas
According to projections released by JupiterResearch, online retail sales will reach $21.6 billion this holiday season. Such numbers would mark a rise of 19 percent over 2003, the market research firm said.Nearly 86 million Americans are likely to make purchases online this season, compared with 73 million last year, it said.JupiterResearch is also predicting a 2 percent jump in spending per buyer compared with last year.Click here for the whole story.News for October 27, 2004:
Getting ready for the next-generation Internet
Wireless networking equipment manufacturers (Wi-Fi equipment) are getting ready for the next-generation Internet. Airespace just became the first wireless LAN (Local Area Network) equipment vendor to announce support for IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, on its products. Other Wi-Fi equipment makers, such as Aruba Wireless Networks, say they will be adding the feature sometime next year.Click here to read the whole story.News for October 25, 2004:
Internet surfers use online rating systems
Pew Internet and the American Life Project closely analyzed almost 1,400 Internet surfers and users in the US during the summer of 2004, in an effort to better gauge the country's use of online rating systems.Click here to read the whole story.News for October 18, 2004:
Survey shows people prefer doing product research online
The results of a new survey done by the Dieringer Research Group, show that in the past year US consumers spent $1.00 online for every $1.70 they spent offline, after doing online research using a search engine. The survey was conducted in the 12 months between Q2 2003 and Q2 2004 among 3,000 US consumers in order to determine multi-channel consumer behavior. In total, $180.7 billion in offline purchases were made after consumers had conducted online research, a figure bigger than the $106.5 billion in purchases made online.Click here for the whole story.News for October 13, 2004:
22 new security flaws discovered in Windows products
Microsoft just published 10 new software security advisories, warning corporate administrators and Windows users of no less than 22 new security holes that affect the company's range of products. The advisories, and patches published with the bulletins, range from an "important" flaw affecting only Microsoft Windows NT Server to a collection of eight security holes, including three rated "critical".Click here for the whole story.News for October 4, 2004:
Network news anchors criticize bloggers
Network news anchors are criticizing bloggers more and more. At a panel discussion sponsored by The New Yorker magazine on Saturday, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw and ABC anchor Peter Jennings lashed out at Internet bloggers in defense of CBS anchor Dan Rather, according to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters.Brokaw compared the bloggers' attacks on Rather's "60 Minutes II" report about President Bush's National Guard service a "political jihad".Click here for the whole story.News for September 26, 2004:
Microsoft to start shipping its new set-top box
Microsoft is to start shipping its new set-top box Web TV next week. Though MSN TV2 is the successor to the original WebTV devices, the new box is a vast departure from its predecessors.On the outside, it's slick, with new video-playback and photo-viewing programs, and a custom version of Internet Explorer 6 designed to make Web browsing on the television a far less painful process. On the inside, it's a Windows CE-based product with a 733MHz Celeron--slow by PC standards but downright zippy in the world of set-top boxes. Click here for the full story.News for September 22, 2004:
A search engine for the gay community
A new search engine tool has been released this week which is based on the Google search engine, but is directed towards the gay community specifically. Fagoogle.com supports homosexuality and actively sponsors programs aimed at educating people about the gay lifestyle. Released this week, Fagoogle.com aims to generate well needed money for the gay community - an area in which lack of awareness causes problems for many people, straight or otherwise.Click here for the full story.News for September 20, 2004:
Paid search boosts Internet sales 40 percent
Internet sales from online advertising were at $4.6 billion in the first half of 2004, up 40.2 percent from the same period in 2003, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The biggest winner was paid search, or ads linked to search results in Google, Yahoo, MSN and other portals, which saw revenue of $947 million in the quarter, up 97 percent from $481 million in the same period of 2003. In addition, search ads made up 40 percent of all second-quarter sales, the report said. Click here for the full story.News for September 13, 2004:
Blogging becoming increasingly important in election campaigns
When history will be written, bloggers' true contributions to the 2004 election campaign may well turn out to be in providing leagues of amateur sleuths to fact-check political controversy. For the last 24 hours, the Internet has been abuzz with bloggers' claims that the memos about President Bush's time in the National Air Guard publicized by CBS were actually a hoax. Keepers of online journals around the country have been analyzing the memos in excruciating detail, comparing the notes' typography to the technical specifications of early 1970s typewriters. Click here for the full story.News for September 9, 2004:
Search marketers worry about Google and Yahoo
As various search engines offer analysis into the ROI and performance of marketers' keyword ad campaigns, some search marketers worry Google and Yahoo can obtain too much sensitive information about advertisers' businesses. Last month, a customer questionnaire from Yahoo's Overture Services paid search unit ignited concern regarding its suggestion of a subscription program that would give insight into competitors' marketing tactics, including price per click, ad budgets and conversion information. Click here for the whole story.News for August 27, 2004:
Worldwide server market up 6.9 percent
According to a study to be released by research firm IDC, the worldwide server market is up 6.9 percent from the same period last year. IDC found server revenue growth at both the low and high ends of the market. Click here for the whole story.News for August 26, 2004:
Search branding critical in Net marketing
The Internet and the Web marketing industry rapidly needs a crash course in brand marketing as it relates to Internet branding. Failing that, connecting with potential new customers will become a tough challenge.Lucky are companies or e-tailers that have a short and clear dot-com brand. Customers can simply go directly there -- like Sony.com or PlayStation.com and buy what they need.Click here for the whole story.News for August 18, 2004:
Microsoft delaying distribution of Windows XP SP2
Microsoft is delaying distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 2 via its Automatic Update service by at least nine days in order to give corporate customers more time to temporarily block automatic downloading of SP2 by their employees. The software maker notified customers of the decision in an e-mail on Sunday, one day before it had planned to make SP2 available through automatic distribution.Click here for the whole story.News for August 17, 2004:
Sharing calendar data with the Web
RSS applications let online publishers automatically send Web content to subscribers, giving readers a powerful tool to compile news headlines on the fly from several sources at once. The RSSCalendar program allows a user to convert and publish calendar data as an RSS feed. Friends, co-workers and customers can subscribe to the calendar feed and automatically receive notices of new appointments, which can be viewed through an RSS reader or imported to a Web-based calendar or Microsoft Outlook. Click here to read the whole story.News for August 4, 2004:
Oracle to make patches available for 31 security flaws
Database software maker Oracle promised on Tuesday to quickly make patches available for more than 30 flaws found recently by a British security researcher. While details of the flaws have not been made public, researcher David Litchfield offered some general information about the issues at the Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas last week. Click here for the whole storyNews for July 29, 2004:
Online advertising to beat magazine ad spending
The Internet�s ability to target consumers and deliver TV-like advertisements are two reasons why online advertising spending is rapidly growing and will overtake the amount spent on magazines by 2008, according to a report by JupiterResearch.By then, online ad spending will total $15 billion, compared to magazines� $14.5 billion, said Gary Stein, a senior analyst.Click here to read it all.News for July 27, 2004:
MyDoom virus slams Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos
A similar variant of the MyDoom virus crashed Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos on Monday and continued to hamper e-mail accounts around the world. The new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected early Monday morning and quickly went on a tear, flooding many mailboxes with hundreds of messages.It has also slowed Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl, because once it infects a PC, the virus automatically performs Web searches on those search engines. Click here to read it allNews for July 17, 2004:
Broadband boosts the Internet
Forrester Research reports that broadband Internet access is the main catalyst behind a new wave of technology adoption and online activity.According to the "Benchmark 2004 Data Overview: Consumer Technographics North America." Report just released by Forrester Research, North America's 23.1 million broadband households are more likely than dial-up households to use the Net for researching products, shopping, banking, booking travel and getting health care information. They are also more likely to adopt new technologies like home networks and digital video recorders (DVRs).Click here to read it all.News for July 15, 2004:
Rank for $ales's CEO quoted in Business Week
Serge Thibodeau, CEO of Rank for $ales has been interviewed and quoted in Business Week magazine, about the impact of search engine rankings on business websites.In March of 2004, Loren Coleman-Lochner of Business Week magazine contacted Serge Thibodeau, and asked him a number of questions pertaining to the major changes to Google's search algorithm and the drastic effect it had on many business websites, notably those in the real estate field.When asked how site owners or their webmasters can help improve the visibility of search engines, Mr. Thibodeau answered: "Try to include your keywords and key phrases a few times on your specific pages, and make sure you also include them in your title tags and headers".Click here to read it all.News for July 13, 2004:
Google will be listed on NASDAQ
Google has finally decided to be listed on NASDAQ, instead of the New York stock exchange for its upcoming $2.7 billion IPO. Google's statement is part of a regulatory SEC filing done on Monday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based search company, which filed to go public in late April, had not previously disclosed information on its chosen stock exchange, and it has yet to propose a trading symbol.Click here for the whole story.News for July 6, 2004:
Top 5 Internet trends shaping up 2004
Since the beginning of 2004, there appears to be some important changes in the Internet landscape, as many industry observers are seeing changes that, in certain cases, might drastically affect the Internet browser, and various other software or hardware products we use in our day-to-day lives.In place of the Internet browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or Opera), a strong growth of the Internet is now being observed as "connected executables" or Internet applications that perform various Web services or search requests, are delivered through task-specific applications, and not through the traditional Web browser.Click here for the whole story.News for June 25, 2004:
Web attack could steal financial information
IT administrators and department managers are being warned to double check their servers, and Web surfers are being cautioned after a widespread hacker attack has compromised major corporate Web sites, and infected thousands if not hundreds of thousands of users' computers.''This is a complicated, sophisticated attack,'' says Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at iDefense, Inc., a security intelligence company based in Reston, Va.Click here for the whole story.News for June 25, 2004:
European online sales up across the whole continent
A new report from VISA shows widespread and growing adoption of online shopping throughout Europe. Vive l'Internet! "These are the healthiest post-Christmas online sales figures for several years," said Bernard Ovink, Vice President of Visa EU, with a smile on his face. "Across Europe, and across sectors, growth is very healthy," he continued. "More and more people are beginning to shop online and loyalty to online brands is increasing. Retailers are becoming smarter at gaining share of wallet, and making it easier for the consumer to buy. Click here to read the whole story.News for June 18, 2004:
Yahoo cancels corporate instant messaging
Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that it is no longer selling a version of its popular instant-messaging service for corporations, ending the Web portal's attempt to sell IM as a software package. In an informal interview earlier this week, Yahoo's Chief Information Officer Lars Rabbe said the enterprise instant messenger was shelved, because Yahoo is largely a consumer company and not structured to take on the kind of support tasks and other responsibilities that come with selling corporate software. Read it all here.News for June 7, 2004:
Plexus and Explet.A virus threaten Windows machines
Antivirus software companies are warning customers about a new e-mail worm that targets unpatched Microsoft Corp. Windows machines with either of two recently disclosed software vulnerabilities.The new worm, known as both "Plexus" and "Explet.A," was first detected on Wednesday and spreads by exploiting Windows machines with vulnerabilities used by two recent worms, Sasser and Blaster, according to alerts. Network Associates Inc.'s McAfee Antivirus Emergency Response Team and Symantec Corp. both said the new worm does not pose a serious threat, but issued software updates on Thursday to detect it.Click here for the whole story.Visit a great blog site:Serge Thibodeau, LiveNew page:H�bergement CanadaNew site:Press BroadcastNew site:Internet Search Engine NewsNew site:Montreal Web DesignNew site:Link RentNew site:Labrador.bizBloggers ishosted by Sun HostingBlogger tools by escalateand by Businessblog�Search engine keyword research byRank for SalesDeveloped using My Web Services� Dev PlatformSponsored by Advertorial.org,Internet Security.ca,andTech BlogSponsors:Datapack.org | Home | News | News Archives | Resources | email |

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