Monthly Archives: September 2010

Ryan Doty of Chico, California came to us about his need for a website for his start-up company Safe House Security; Chico specializing in security services for gatherings, parties, and other social events.  With this type of company that already has a client base with many Facebook contacts that Web 2.0 and Facebook applications were a must.  We delivered a website that allows their visitors to involve themselves on the website with their Facebook username/email and password as well as letting them “like” the company’s Facebook page directly from the company website. This  [...]

Last night our services were out for approximately 3 hours due to the power company requesting our data center to shut down power (under short notice) in order to perform work on a transformer.  We kept most of the mission essential services online and hope it was not too much of an inconvenience to anyone! As of late the data center has been doing great about maintaining that 99.999% up-time rating, this month it appears they may slip to 99.91% but I’m not going to complain too much if they can keep that above  [...]

Over the past five years that Twitter and Facebook has shaped the internet; URL shortening services have been springing to life all over the web. With the web there is always 3 things you can always count on, 1: There will be downtime, 2: It is never secure, and 3: roll a die, if you get 1-3, chances are the guy you’re talking to is a scammer. Scammers make horrific use of these URL shortening services by masking their URL to URL detection services like your email provider’s spam protection software which means it cannot see that there is a link in your email for  [...]

On September 8, 2010, Google released and announced their new search interface “Google Instant”. As they said; this technology will bring you search results instantly to your desk top as you type. This launch was not about putting the hyper-drive on the internet but instead to show the users how to better refine their search queries so they can see every letter grouped with another is another query. Through this, Google aims to influence the way we make our search queries.  [...]

As the “hip” saying is today, “You gotta web 2.0″ has never been more true.  In my previous posts you’ll learn exactly what Web 2.0 is, so today I’m not going to go back over all of that, but in short, it means that its the social network, easy to read (and access), optimized way of developing and maintaining a website. Today though many people don’t really realize how many potential customers and clients they are loosing because their site isn’t Web 2.0 or because their site is only “SEO” friendly and not human friendly.    [...]