Twitter grows more popular each and every day and more and more users are discovering it and putting it to use. Since the beginning, Twitter has struggled to meet this demand and it has been a big challenge for them to not only meet the current demand that their users have, but also to provide additional value to those users. One of the reasons that I have been reluctant to use Twitter on an everyday basis is that it seems very inefficient to me. ...continue

There was once a man who built his house on sand and one who built his house on a rock. The winds came, the rain fell, and the streams rose. Once the storm was over, the house that was built upon the rock was left standing and the one that was built on sand was washed away. That may be a little dramatic, but the same parable can be applied to choosing the company that will host your website. “Storms” for a web host come in many different f ...continue

So much to do, so little time. You’ve been working on a project for weeks, and the end still doesn’t seem to be in sight. The deadline keeps getting pushed back further and further, but you must press on. You’re beginning to feel overwhelmed and your productivity is steadily declining. You probably find yourself wasting more time than usual and you try to find excuses to leave your desk. You’re ready to just throw your hands up in the air ...continue

In my line of work, I get asked a lot about what the difference is between mobile application development and mobile web development. Instead of just responding to a bunch of emails, I thought it best to write an article about it. Mobile Application What is it? A mobile application is a proprietary application that is coded for a specific mobile device in its native programming language. It is distributed through the manufacturers distributio ...continue

If I were to ask for a show of hands on how people have used the Internet in the past seven days, it would reveal some very interesting data. A small percentage of people would say they participated in some form of online entertainment. A greater number would confirm they had interacted on a chat room or message board. Still more would raise their hands when asked if they did any online shopping. But the greatest number of hands would go up ...continue

A few months ago I got a new laptop. It had nothing but Windows 7 installed on it. The first thing you always have to do with a new computer is to install all the software that you need to be productive. An office suite is one of the key pieces of software that just about any business person needs. The ability to create word documents, presentations, access email, and build spreadsheets is paramount to surviving in corporate America. So I went on ...continue

Whether you have one website or one thousand, you need Google Analytics. Here is a quick tutorial for installing Google Analytics on your website or WordPress blog. Getting the code: 1. Go to http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html. 2. Sign in or create a new account. Setting up a new account is fast and simple; you just need a valid email address. 3. Add a New Domain. To do this, you simply need to add your URL, set your country and ti ...continue

When the potential of Google AdSense became clear, it was a seminal moment. It was a revolution in entrepreneurial opportunity. You didn’t need to be a programmer, a computer whiz or a venture capitalist to make money out of the Internet. All you needed to do was identify one thing that you knew a lot about, write about it, surround your content with ads and if you could bring in the traffic, you had a new business. The launch of Apple’s i ...continue

WordPress is by far the most popular content management system on the Web right now. Every day new plugins are being developed, improved, or added. Plugins are a way for you to add additional functionality to your blog according to your needs. I will be discussing some of the most beneficial plugins that you should install on your WordPress site. Akismet – This plugin comes installed by default and there is a reason for that. This plugin wil ...continue

One thing is becoming increasingly clear: mobile web browsing is quickly catching up to and surpassing desktop browsing. With more people having access to mobile-enabled cell phones than computers, the number of mobile devices browsing the web is increasing at an enormous rate. Just like the days in which you had to optimize your site to ensure that someone surfing the net on a 56k dial-up modem could load your site within a short amount of ti ...continue