One thing that the Internet provides is information. This involves both factual and fictitious claims normally following the trend of newspapers and magazine. But while this broadens the scope of most people today, it remains that the web has extended this all the more.

Unlike old practices where you have to wait for scheduled releases of magazines and articles, a simple blog post or comment can push information to be the first rumor monguer we know of today.

People hate and love gossip. All it needs is validity even if at times, people still love reading them even if they are not true.

Posted: September 23rd, 2009 under Web Potpourri.
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E-mail marketing is a method of direct marketing that uses e-mail to communicate commercial messages and advertisements to consumers. Every e-mail that is sent to a current or potential customer can be considered e-mail marketing. The term is also used to refer to e-mails with the purpose of enhancing the relationship with the consumer or client and to encourage customer loyalty or e-mails to keep customers updated with new products and features. E-mail marketing is an inexpensive way of keeping in touch with current customers, building relationships with customers, and to attract new clients and obtain their business.

Posted: August 25th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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A corporate blog is created, maintained, and used by an organization or a company to keep track of their goals and to publish updates. The advantage of using corporate blogging is that new posts can be accessed instantly by subscribing to its RSS feed, which allows users to read recent entries even without visiting the website itself. This is useful for low-volume blogs. Discussions are also easy to follow because of the comments feature, which structures conversation threads.

Corporate blogs can also be used to encourage employee participation by asking them to freely discuss issues and to give feedback. Often they take the place of e-mail discussions or meetings, which is useful when the staff members are located in different offices.

Posted: July 30th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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The social internet has so changed the world but the one down side of all the wonderful sites, as always, information overload. This phenomenon has one person having to deal with several sources of information that causes confusion or even resulting in mixed up facts due to the inability to deal with these details individually. The many social sites such as FaceBook, Twitter and many more presents us with information that is quite overwhelming, not to say that they can present conflicting information that will add to the confusion. Read more »

Posted: June 28th, 2009 under News & Updates.
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The newest addition to the many search engines that ply the internet, Bing is a product of the software giant Microsoft who has failed to acquire the search giant Yahoo even after repetitive attempts. Designed to replace their Live Search Facility, they hope it will take enough of the search market from their prospect Yahoo and even the many other search engines that have been nagging at them for sometime. Microsoft also announced that it will soon be releasing a replacement anti-virus to replace their previously offered Bit Defender that was offered for download from their website as part of their drive to secure their Windows Operating System platform. Read more »

Posted: May 28th, 2009 under News & Updates.
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The many companies who have jumped onto the blogging bandwagon there are the good the bad and the ugly, making news at the top of their agenda but sometimes, over-eagerness takes hold and everything gets all…. messy! Like the previous events that placed Symantec in the hot seat when their people released a test file that was supposed to test the anti-virus software their clients paid for. It turned out into a marketing manager for the guy who released the update forgot to attach a valid security certificate and was deemed as malware sending their paniked customers to flood their support lines and site. Read more »

Posted: April 28th, 2009 under General Information, News & Updates.
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Countries have been screening the internet and even all forms of media for a long time, but mostly for those countries that have maintained either monarchical or communist rule. Countries in the Middle East and in Asia have long enforced internet filtering but with brushes between the government and Google in the recent months regarding nude pictures getting through their image search facility, China has decided to take matters into it’s own hands. In what is being called as the Green Wall of China, it is a home-made screening program that takes matters into it’s own hand, blocking anything that the government deems a s disruptive or counter’s the ideals of the state. Read more »

Posted: April 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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The main appeal, of course, of free anti-virus software, is that it’s free. In fact, its actually less of a hassle compared to paid anti-virus programs because you don’t need to bother with activation or serial numbers or expiry dates – you simply download the free software, install it, and then run it. And in most cases, the updates are free and regular so you don’t need to worry about having an outdated virus definition list.

Some of the more common and effective free anti-virus software include Panda Anti-virus, AVG, Avira Anti-Vir, among others. You would do well to check online reviews of the best freeware so you are updated on what free version provides the best protection.

The only disadvantage though, of freeware, is that paid platforms have more features and offer increased safeguards for your protection. But if you are careful, the freeware can give you adequate protection.

Posted: February 18th, 2009 under General Information.
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The introduction of Gmail Webclips has done it again, thrusting Google into the realm of better open-sourced programs and it did so with style. Google’s addition of webclips allows users to create email with embedded pictures rather than sending them along with the rest of the message as attachments. Read more »

Posted: January 12th, 2009 under General Information, News & Updates.
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Instant Messaging clients are one of the more important innovations so far regarding communications via the internet. However, the problem was that not every IM client can talk with the other. It started to change a few years ago when eventually, they opened up to some but still not all. Third party Ims then began creating software that allow you to chat with someone else from another IM client without logging out. One of the exemplary ones was meebo.

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

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Posted: December 28th, 2008 under News & Updates.
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