I was watching a show on the history of the Game industry the other night… it was probably on CNBC or some other cable station and they talked about how the game  Tetris had been one of the main reasons people purchased hand held Gameboys. This got me thinking of how hardware and software interact and why some people are willing to purchase systems for a single solution.

People see a great application and are willing to spend good money on what seems dedicated hardware to be able to use it.

The thing is this influence …

The UK is introducing new regulation on Internet Advertising that will be managed through the ASA Advertising Standards Authority.  Like those introduced in the USA by the FTC and other governing boards the new rules are expected to hit many businesses, non-profits and even political influenced speech pretty hard.

What is interesting about the loss of what many in the US would consider First Amendment rights the rulings are being placed on the back of child protection.

Now most people are in favor of rules that would eliminate spam to some extent and …

In the past three to 5 years we have seen an explosion in the use of social networks to promote web content but how much time is lost by fostering a social network child instead of building your own site into a valuable resource.

This seems to be a very hot topic on Twitter among the PR community. When twitter first became almost necessary for every business there were dozens of mostly unknown sites that skyrocketed to fame. We all know their names so there is no reason to go into pointing fingers but what has been lost or gained and …

It is really difficult to say how word count effects your search engine placement but many people say that a minimum of 400 words to around 1,000 words per page is enough for the average bot to read and then index your pages.

While editing your pages in the WordPress visual editor you can look to the bottom left of the editor window to view your approximate word count for the page you are currently writing. This is important for writers but if you are an editor reviewing your site you may …

Microsoft just announced a new program for Technology Business Startups called BizSpark.

The BizSpark package is more of a backend package including Windows Server all versions, SQL Server, Visual Studio Enterprise and a number of other tools that businesses would spend thousands of dollars putting together on their own.

Although the package does not from what we can see offer any desktop operating systems … who knows because if small business server is included you are probably getting win7 … but all together this is a very decent set of tools for any …

A new report by the McAfee Virus Team announced that Cameron Diaz is the Most Infected Star on the Internet. Unlike Pamela Anderson they weren’t talking STDs… the study examined the number of files mostly screen savers and media like that are downloaded and found that the person’s image who was most linked to malware infections was Cameron Diaz…

Well maybe its better then being infected in real life but when you are looking for a hottie to put on your desktop many users aren’t considering they can catch something from it other then some …

If you run a large or busy website there are times when you will need to delete old or bad posts from your site. This means jumping back and forth between your Dashboard and the FrontEnd of your site while you are hunting down posts to get rid of.

Although many or most themes will provide an edit link when you are viewing a single page or post this still means heading into your backend to make the delete of the page.

The solution is to add a Delete Post link next to …

It seems that after six months someone finally tracked down one of the worst malware offenders and guess what folks it was Network Solutions.

It seems that many websites both active and parked were displaying a Network Solutions widget that installed malware on visitors computers.

Since many wordpress and other cms software backed sites have the ability to add the widget from a plugin or built in sidebar option the cause of the malware had gone unverified for a prolonged period.  Additionally since millions of the domains were parked they had their content …

It may not be something you ever knew or thought about but since so many people take photographs with their iPhone we thought we would give you the inside about how GPS Map Location data saved in your photographs might be a security problem.

Think about it every time you snap a pic and post it you are not only giving away your location by the photograph you take but also by hidden map coordinates that can pin point your pic to within about a meter.

This is the same data you might …

Microsoft since it worked with PHP to get it running on IIS has ventured into other open source language integration for .Net developers but it seems this has come to an end.

The Ruby language is the most apparent to be shelved but it is expected that others will never be realized as well.

Jim Schementi the program manager for IronRuby says the development staff has been reduced to one person. It seems like a Hollywood movie that gets shelved after filming only to never be released the .Net version of Ruby will …