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5 Absolutely ESSENTIAL WordPress Plugins

There are thousands of WordPress Plugins available which do all sorts of awesome things. Here are the five plugins which I use on every WordPress site I set-up or administer: All in One SEO Pack This is one of the most popular WordPress Plugins and for good reason. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential in [...]

Most Popular Social Networking Sites

Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding. The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or [...]

Blog Spam Increasing

Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative [...]

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 [...]