Technorati dates back to 2002, originally launched as a search directory for the blogosphere. By 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media....

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by David Murton. See more details on him below. Many savvy blog and website owners are now understanding how blog commenting can serve as a power...

I am a sucker for data visualization. I am less enamored with infographics these days as I have noticed some hijacking of the medium for public relations stunts. Taking a few anecdotes and drawing so...

CPUsage provides developers with a SETI@home-style grid computing platform. CPUsage offers computer owners rewards in exchange for access to their unused CPU resources. It then licenses those resourc...

Reddit went down for a period of six hours early Friday morning, making it look as bad as any service does when its millions of visitors suddenly can't get to their beloved community. It's not a goo...

Wanted to just highlight an excellent article I read this week on the SaaSBlogs by Apprenda.  The article was written by Sinclair Schuller, CEO ofApprenda. Sinclair makes an excellent point that ther...

The social news site Reddit is revising how it uses Amazon's cloud computing service following performance problems that contributed to six hours of downtime for the Reddit site this week.

Web Host Industry ReviewCloud Storage Firm Gluster Joins Open Source Community OpenStackWeb Host Industry Review(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud storage provider Gluster (www.gluster.com) announced...

Interesting paper from IsecLab (Institute Eurécom, University of California Santa Barbara, Ruhr University Bochum, Northeastern University): "The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster’s Perspec...

At this year's Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand, there were no reports of bad acid or rainstorms to muck things up, just a few sore tummies from newcomers (like me) eating too many Pineapple Lumps....

RIM announced yesterday BlackBerry Office 365, a hosted version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. According to The Register, the service will be hosted by RIM in its own data centers, but will be...

Next month, my column in Marketing News will recommend that you cut your ad budget by 10% and spend the money on customer service. Why? Because getting your customers to be happy will pay off far more...

Yahoo! has recently begun the role out of a new beta. I say new new because it seems like yesterday that Yahoo! was rolling out a beta which today is the defacto email client in addition to Classic. C...

The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of...

The email marketing campaigns you create and send weekly, monthly, or quarterly are your way of letting your recipients know whats going on with your company, whats new, or what deals youve got going...

Businesses are under pressure to crack the social media code. There's all those tools and platforms to harness, and all those best practices to adopt. Staying on top of it is exhausting. Staying ahead...

This is the fourth post in our series on cloud server performance benchmarking. In this post, we'll examine memory IO performance using a compilation of 7 different benchmarks. This is the last of the...

The average customer service worker hardly gets pleasure of his work. These stupid customers with their stupid questions or too nervous customers can make anyone crazy. Knowing this, the developers of...

This post is part of the Marketing White Belt series.The 4 Ps of MarketingThe SWOT AnalysisMarketing FunnelsUnderstanding Fast, Cheap, GoodBasic methods of making moneyBasic marketing campaign plan Pe...

Have you recently started a group blog or are you struggling to maintain one? In a comment on another blog I write for, Savvy B2B Marketing, someone recently told me he was starting...