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Does SEO Really Matter?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is much spoken about both among web professionals and those employing consultants or companies to manage their Websites. If you have a website or are interested in Internet Technologies then SEO is likely to be a familiar term familiar to you but does SEO really matter and how important is it? [...]

Oracle likes MySQL – but why?

Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine. A Bit about MySQL MySQL was acquired by Sun in [...]

Blog Dugg to Death

A blog, fushnchups.co.nz, has received the equivalent of the digg Effect. Various newspaper and online articles have named the controversial content of the blog in the past few days. This has led to fushnchups.co.nz being unavailable (at the time of this articles writing). The ‘digg Effect’ is a reference to articles in digg becoming so [...]

What is a Blog

What is a Blog

A Blog is typically a web page containing articles (often called ‘posts’). Articles are added periodically and most Blogs encourage viewers to comment on the article. The vast majority of Blogs are maintained by individuals (such as this Blog). Blogs are part of what is known as Web 2.0 or Social Media. Who Reads Blogs? [...]