1. What is Cloud Computing?
I was talking to a friend yesterday about this very topic – he asked me what it was – and then I read a post today on ZDnet that I thought was going to tell me the answer. Here’s the post: What’s Cloud Computing and...
2. The Future Web – Web 3.0
According to ReadWriteWeb: This means that when you tell people you write, read or listen to blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks and online video – if they give you a funny look, it is now officially them that’s a freak,...
3. The Internet Maturity Model
My background in the Internet stretches back to 1996, and since then I have observed many trends start, develop, and come to an end. Looking at the evolution of an organisation and its web presence (in a similar sense to the SW-CMM –...
4. Architecting Great Websites, Introduction
A website is about far more that just look and feel. It has to serve two distinct groups of users: your [potential] customers and your business. This is a very important distinction that is often overlooked by many website owners and...
Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne Scam
Looks like there is a scam going round the email for this grand marque champagne. If you get an email like the one below, ignore it unless you want to lose a lot of money (Cristal 2002 is approx £175 per...
The Digital Economy Bill vs Public...
Unless you have been living under a rock recently, you will have noticed the fervent debate and campaigning over the Digital Economy Bill which was made law today. A quick Q&A was published on the BBC...
Virtual, Dedicated & Cloud Hosting...
This isn’t a post aimed at sysadmins, as they will know this already. However, it’s a post intended for a business owner or decision maker who places the contract for web hosting, and is intended...
Fixing WordPress auto-upgrade failure...
We manage a number of WordPress installs for our clients at Emissary, and in our recent move to Cloud hosting (away from dedicated servers), we discovered that the auto-upgrade of WordPress stalls every time...
You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing...
I read the recent RWW Article which is a response to Jaron Lanier‘s book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto”, in which he makes the case for a more humanistic approach to Internet...
MySQL to be replaced by Drizzle at...
I just read a post on Cloud Computing Journal that suggests that RackSpace will be rolling out Drizzle later this year on their Cloud, and are probably going to replace MySQL in the process. Drizzle is a...
Lack of Professionalism in the Web...
It is difficult to compete sometimes – that’s natural. But the Web Industry suffers from a huge number of amateurs who are pretending to be professionals. And sometimes you meet a client who wants...
Measuring Social Reach with bit.ly
If you are using Twitter, or for that matter, publishing any kind of links on the Internet via a social forum – e.g. blogs, Facebook, Posterous, etc – you should start a bit.ly account (it’s...
How to Secure your Website Part 1
I received the message below from Rackspace yesterday and it reflects the current state of the security of websites (both bespoke and open source) in general. Rackspace offer a concise and excellent overview...
Portability of VoIP Numbers Lacking
Some time ago we began to allow people to change their telecoms provider but keep the same telephone number (fixed land line). Along came mobile phones and the same principle followed – we could change...Edward Terry
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