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Joomla Wins the PACKT Open Source CMS Award
Joomla has won the Packt Publishing award for the top open source CMS. Now in its sixth year, many consider the Packt Open Source Award as a top honor for an open source project. Joomla won the award based on a combination of public voting and input by a panel of judges consisting of open source luminaries. Julian Copes of
Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors – Internet Documentary
A short documentary on the material infrastructure of the Internet—massive data centers like 60 Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan that serve as the physical, unseen hubs for the Internet.Read More
Product Development: 9 Steps for Creative Problem Solving [INFOGRAPHIC]
Latetly we've been discussing how important it is to approach the job of technical development and programming from a creative stance. The key to success is not to think about the nuts and bolts and how to assemble them into a structure, but rather to design the project creatively and visually first. That's why it's better to flowchart a complex
GENWI Launches iPad App Publishing Solution And Enhanced Mobile CMS
GENWI returns with the launch of new publishing and CMS apps for mobile devices. We first covered GENWI back in 2007, when the company was a social feed reader that allowed users to organize their content feeds by category and share with friends. GENWI has gone through several variations since, most notable among them the launch of iSites, a quick and
Is IT in Your In-House SEO Circle?
As we all entrench ourselves into the current “circles” mania, it’s important for in-house SEOs to add IT into their “SEO Circle.” But how? As we all entrench ourselves into the current “circles” mania, it’s important for in-house SEOs to add IT into their “SEO Circle.” But how? Traditionally, marketing-IT relationships are tumultuous, with both having differing viewpoints on how
In-stream Online Video Boosts Brand Recall
Pre-, mid- and post-roll best video ads for brand marketers. Pre-, mid- and post-roll best video ads for brand marketers Interactive marketers can’t help but look to online video to take advantage of branding potential richer than that for previous online display ad formats. But like its static display counterpart, banner ads, online video advertising can appear in numerous ad
Google’s Similar Pages Moved
We found this interesting article about Google removing the 'similar links'. There are complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google removed thesimilar link found near the cache link in the search results. I personally do not see them anymore either - although I am not sure if it was removed during or before the new design launched a couple
The Internet Just Ran Out of Numbers
Every available Internet protocol address has now been spoken for. On February 3, it finally happened: the clock ran out on the Internet as we know it. That was the day that the stash of Internet protocol addresses that are used to identify and locate computers connected to the Internet—the telephone numbers of the online world—was exhausted. The problem is