Boy, was I excited when I received my personal invitation read on Google’s company blog that they are allowing searchers to test out Google’s new-and-improved search, codenamed “Caffeine”. Could it get any better than that? Yes. They are actually allowing testers to leave their feedback about it, which will go directly to Google’s engineers. According…
Year: 2009
Off to the races: Social Media, Search and Realtime
Holy smokes! Yesterday was a whirlwind of internet news! Keeping up with any and all changes is trying sometimes, so what we like to do here at Hall is give a recap on any events that may have happened that could effect your internet marketing strategy. Let’s get right into it: Facebook purchases Friendfeed The…
What is a DOS attack and why should I care?
Twitter seems to be back on it’s feet after dealing with the wrath of the DOS (denial of service) attack that hit it last Thursday, causing several hours of outages and even more hours of slow service. The DOS attack was apparently aimed at a specific blogger and negatively impacted not only Twitter, but that…
What to do with Internet Explorer 6
IE6 has taken a lot of heat (for good reason). Now the griping has gone to the next level, sites like Facebook, You Tube and Digg have either dropped browser support or warned about dropping support by suggesting new alternatives (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, even Internet Explorer 8). Development Issues Geeks like me realize why IE6…