Of people who both blog and tweet, the majority would overwhelmingly prefer to have more blog readers than followers on Twitter. This is according to surveys conducted by Darren Rowse who runs ProBlogger and TwiTip. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/30/getting-more-blog-readers-and-twitter-followers
Payment card industry compliance potentially affects every merchant that accepts credit card payments. Failure to understand the PCI compliance standards could result in higher merchant account fees and fines from the credit card issuers. Here, we sort through PCI compliance issues with Tim Erlin of nCircle, a security consulting and compliance firm. http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1028-PCI-Compliance-Frequently-Asked-Questions
Conficker, the toughest, most virulent worm around has already infected more than 10 million systems. And it’s about to get worse. According to security researchers, Conficker will receive an update tomorrow that should make it even harder to eradicate. We’ve got the latest on the worm’s evolution. http://www.insidetech.com/news/articles/4416-10-m-conficker-worm-infections-prepare-for-april-1-update?referral=IT_nlet_20090331_members
Just days ahead of an April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3043&tag=nl.e539
Cater to Intent-Based Search Google recently announced 2 new improvements to Google Search. The first is an expanded list of related searches, and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/24/new-google-serp-features
Go ahead, Microsoft, wear yourself out Regarding social media, the best you can say about Google is that the company has merely dabbled in it. Google’s absence in this space becomes as glaring as Godot’s when chief rival Microsoft is busy funneling money toward the hottest new products, products created even by former Googlers. That…
Web entrepreneurs have a difficult choice to make with the release of every new service – should it be offered complimentary to bring in streams of users or should we charge for it with an aim of shortening the road to profitability? Let’s look at the challenges of the freemium model in greater detail and…
Windows 7 hasn’t even hit the Release Candidate test phase, but already analysts at Gartner are advising business users they shouldn’t plan to wait for Service Pack 1 (SP1) to arrive before planning deployments. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2350&tag=nl.e589
Report Highlights Interesting Statistics on Social Media Marketing Author and WebProNews Blog Partner Michael Stelzner, has put together an interesting report based on a survey of 900 marketers. The report looks at the state of social media marketing. Interesting stats from the report include: – 88% indicated they were employing social media for marketing purposes–…
The Windows team is doing its best not to talk specific dates in advance of delivering any of its milestone builds. Then Microsoft goes ahead and posts prematurely a download page for the Windows 7 Release Candidate. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2369&tag=nl.e539