]]> http://webatlantis.org/make-money/do-not-miss-this-promotion/feed/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/happy-birthday-google/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/happy-birthday-google/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:16:42 +0000 Ilias http://webatlantis.org/?p=632

Everybody is wishing a Happy B-Day to Google and I didn’t want to miss this special day either !

Happy 10th Birthday Google and keep up the good work…

What about everybody on slightly less cutting edge devices? Or, even iPhone owners with slow connections that want access to specific data quickly? The answer is the SMS app, which is now accessible to the average web developer.

• Build an SMS Notification App

The fallout from the FBI raid on EliteTorrents in 2005 continues. Today, 26 year-old Daniel Dove has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $20,000 fine for the work he put in on the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.

Read more.. ]]> http://webatlantis.org/internet/bittorrent-tracker-admin-jailed-for-18-months/feed/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/the-future-of-search/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/the-future-of-search/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:59:56 +0000 Ilias http://webatlantis.org/?p=420 Google’s Marissa Mayer (head of Search Products & User Experience dep.)  wrote today a blog post about current limitations of search and possible future improvements.

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people’s lives around the world in the 10 years since Google’s founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what’s going to happen in the next 10 years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked 10 of our top experts this very question, and over the next three weeks we will present their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts’ words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editors.

• The Future of Search

]]> http://webatlantis.org/internet/the-future-of-search/feed/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/google-cuts-time-it-retains-ip-address-logs-to-9-months/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/google-cuts-time-it-retains-ip-address-logs-to-9-months/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:27:56 +0000 Ilias http://webatlantis.org/?p=365 Google will half the length of time it holds data linking surfers’ IP addresses to their Web searches.

The move comes in response to regulators’ concerns, especially in Europe and the U.S., the company said in a blog posting late on Monday. ]]> http://webatlantis.org/internet/google-cuts-time-it-retains-ip-address-logs-to-9-months/feed/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/interesting-knol-links/ http://webatlantis.org/internet/interesting-knol-links/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:52:26 +0000 Ilias http://webatlantis.org/?p=312

• Surprise Surprise - Google Knol Ranks Well in Google!

Last week Google announced their ‘Knol’ service and I (among others) questioned whether it would have a significant impact upon smaller publishers ability to rank well in Google’s search results.

• Google Knol is Behaviorally Targeting & Ranking well!

Just thought I’d let everyone know, that on a search for how to backpack in Google is showing a top 5 result for Google Knol.

There are many who have covered what Google Knol is you can see what it is here and here these are my favorites, Aaron Wall has started his SEO basics Google Knol.

No need for intros here lets get to the MEAT!

• The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google

We’ve been assured that just because content sits on Google’s Knol site, it won’t gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how’s that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol home page that I tested ranked in the top results. I came away feeling that being on Knol does indeed give pages an advantage they might not get if they’d been hosted on some other brand new web site.

• Google Knol

The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, and related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a browser on any computer.

Produced by Alex Wong.

In essence, RSS is a ‘mini database’ that contains headlines and descriptions (a summary or a line or two of the full article) of your web content, including hyperlinks that enable users to link back to the full article of their choice.

RSS websites - that is, websites that contain RSS ‘feeds’ (articles or postings) - typically have colorful graphics to indicate to users that the specific web content is available through RSS feeds. These graphics are usually depicted by orange rectangles that are usually marked with ‘RSS’ or ‘XML’.

With its increased popularity, RSS is now being adopted and used by more website owners or publishers. Today, numerous resources are now available that aid Internet surfers (and even beginners as well) on how to set up and use RSS.

Setting up RSS feeds and adding them to your website can be a simple process that does not involve a lot of time or any money. Listed below are some simple and basic steps that you might want to follow:

• Have your web content and/or news in an RSS feed format, such as XML (appropriate and ‘ready-made’ feeds are also available from other sources).
• Click the orange graphic - this is the RSS feed icon. Take note of the URL of the RSS feed; this will be displayed in the address bar (for Internet Explorer).
• Input the feed URL on your RSS feed creation program.
• Click on the “Generate Feed” button. This will generate the RSS code for your web content.
• Enter the RSS code in the appropriate place on your own website.

Having created an RSS feed for your website, next comes the task of publishing your web content and news and having them displayed on other sites and headline viewers. This is made possible with the use of RSS readers or aggregators.

RSS readers or news aggregators are used to view particular web contents. RSS readers contain the collection of ‘feeds’ or RSS files from content providers, and they are generally classified into 3 types:

• Desktop RSS readers - also known as standalone desktop application, they generally ‘run’ in the background and are similar to an e-mail client, collecting the feeds and refreshing items automatically as they are updated.
• Web-based aggregators - these are online services that enable users to personalize web pages, refreshing them each time the page is accessed or each time a person logs in to the service.
• Plug-in aggregators/readers - these make use of either web browsers or e-mail clients, which allow users to view RSS feeds while inside an existing program.

Having an RSS-enabled website provides Internet users (especially those who are website owners) with the following benefits:

• Allows users to generate up-to-date news and postings, as information and content in the RSS readers or aggregators are automatically updated each time the RSS feed is ‘refreshed’.
• Allows users to have control over the information that they wish to view or receive, as they can remove a feed of their choosing any time they want to.

Aside from these benefits, RSS websites are also useful for people who conduct their business in the Internet, particularly in Internet or Online Marketing. RSS can be an effective marketing tool for your website, especially in the following fields:

• E-mail marketing and publishing
• Search engine marketing and optimization
• Business blogging
• Internet advertising
• Digital public relations
• Branding and e-commerce

In addition, RSS can ‘power’ your website, providing you with the following:

• Valuable, updated, and relevant resources for site visitors and potential clients - RSS is ideal for websites that contain (and syndicate) a lot of information that has to be changed or updated regularly.
• Search engine optimization for the website.
• Increased traffic for the website - your website can ‘harvest’ and display information from other sites, driving more traffic to your own website.
• A wide selection of ‘channels’ for content distribution, such as PDA’s, cellular phones, voice mails, and email ticklers.
• A reliable way to have your web content delivered to Internet users and potential clients - RSS ensures that your site is viewed by the people who are interested in them, without having them blocked and ‘cleaned’ by ISPs or Spam filters.

These are just some of the advantages that RSS can give your website (and your business). The possibilities are endless, as more and more comes up almost everyday. Do not be left behind - take the advantage of the marketing and publishing power of RSS.

Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software “patch” released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way computers are routed to web page addresses.

“It’s a very fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the Internet works,” Securosis analyst Rich Mogul said in a media conference call.

“You’d have the Internet, but it wouldn’t be the Internet you expect. (Hackers) would control everything.”

The flaw would be a boon for “phishing” cons that involve leading people to imitation web pages of businesses such as bank or credit card companies to trick them into disclosing account numbers, passwords and other information.

Attackers could use the vulnerability to route Internet users wherever they wanted no matter what website address is typed into a web browser.

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky of IOActive stumbled upon the Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability about six months ago and reached out to industry giants including Microsoft, Sun and Cisco to collaborate on a solution.

DNS is used by every computer that links to the Internet and works similar to a telephone system routing calls to proper numbers, in this case the online numerical addresses of websites.

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