WebHostingBuzz: A hosting partner worth getting to know

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For the past 18 months, WebHostingBuzz has hosted this blog and my other websites on a dedicated server physically located in one of its US datacentres. A dedicated server is a server that is exclusive to one user: it’s not shared with anyone else. So I enjoy the benefits of high performance, security, stability and [...]

Hanging out at LeWeb London in June 2013

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Last year at both LeWeb conferences in London and Paris,  I joined in live discussions for some of the sessions and with presenters via Google Hangout On Air. Being parachuted-in this way not only let me be part of things from afar but also showed what is possible today to expand an event’s horizons dramatically [...]

How to secure your WordPress site against hacker attacks

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One of the easiest content management systems to set up and use is WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world, powering more than 60 million websites worldwide. That fact may be a key reason why WordPress is in the news right now as the subject of a large-scale attack from a huge number [...]

EE ups the 4G game

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If you’re a customer of EE on a 4G cellular service plan, you’ll relish the latest news from the UK’s only mobile operator with a commercial 4G service. EE announced today that it is doubling the speed and capacity of its 4G network that, the company says, will boost headline 4G speeds to 80Mbps plus, [...]

BBC global survey shows evolving news consumption habits across multiple screens

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It’s doubtful that many people would disagree with the belief that our behaviours in how, where and when we consume content – the evolved way of saying what we used to describe as reading the papers, listening to the radio or watching TV – have shifted dramatically and permanently with the broad and deep penetration [...]

The dawn of the valuable-ad era

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Here are two ideas about advertising – online and offline – that could catch on in a big way and ‘evolutionize’ entire industries. Social news and entertainment site Reddit plans to let users vote on the ads they see when using the website, voting up those they like and down those they don’t: […] Our [...]

The future can be rosy for advertising and mobile

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I must have walked past Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London’s Soho scores of times over the past decades, yet I’ve never enjoyed the moments of being inside. Until last Wednesday. On March 20, the iconic venue was the place where some 200 people in advertising, marketing, PR and the mainstream media came together to [...]

The demise of two RSS readers marks the passing of an era

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Yesterday, Google announced the sunsetting of eight products and services in a move they described as a second spring of cleaning. The one that is making headlines across the social web is Google Reader, the browser-based tool that aggregates and lets you read and share content from your RSS feeds. On the Google Reader Blog, [...]

Make your website actually work

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When was the last time you checked your website to ensure that it’s effectively supporting your business goals? In this age of social communication that’s rapidly evolving as tools and channels like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Vine become part of the mainstream experience for millions of consumers, is your digital presence up to scratch? The [...]