Get started in minutes with WordPress hosting Thursday 2nd September 2010 WordPress hosting takes just minutes to deploy, meaning users can be adding content to their new websites within the first hour, it has been reported. Writing for Network World, Frank Ohlhorst explained that the open-source custom web hosting platform allows businesses to create static content to be published online.

Hosting providers with previous experience in Second Life are bringing some Second Life terminology with them into OpenSim. For example, Coral Estates draws a distinction between “owning” a region and paying “tier” — and “renting” land.

Google Adds Developer Fee To Enhance Extension Security In addition to launching a developer preview of its forthcoming Chrome Web Store on Thursday, Google moved to make its developer ecosystem more secure. Hoping to impose a cost on those who create multiple fake developer accounts for the purpose of propagating malicious extensions and manipulating reviews, the company introduced a nominal $5 fee for developers of Chrome Extension, Themes, and (soon) Apps who wish to host their content in Google’s galleries and store

Net Neutrality: Are Google and Verizon Waffling? American Public Media’s Marketplace explained Schmidt’s position further in a report on Thursday. The public radio program reported, “Google could get behind the idea of one price for data that’s traveling over the net

Hosting News – WINTER PARK, FL – Highwinds, a leader in content delivery, network and IP services, today announced that it has hired Van Macatee as COO of Content Delivery and Network Services.  In this role, he will leverage over three decades of global telecom, network and information technologies experience as he takes overall responsibility for all operational aspects of Highwinds’ Content Delivery and Network Services. “Van has an impressive history of building efficient operations in high-growth companies,” said Steve Liddell, president of Content Delivery and Network Services for Highwinds.  “With the recent acquisition of BandCon and our high growth rate, he will be instrumental in ensuring that our customer experience remains a top priority.  He is a renowned expert at running successful technical operations and managing groups of talented people in a way that always benefits the customer.” Macatee’s experience includes high-profile technical leadership roles for the U.S

Most people are familiar with email viruses and the need for protecting a personal computer against infection. But what are you doing to ensure the safety and security of your website

Black Hat 2010: How hackers use SEO techniques to push malware Any company that does business online knows the importance of mastering search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to get their content atop the Google rankings. It turns out malware pushers care about SEO, too, and at DefCon later this week researchers will show just how big a deal it has become

Third-Party Content Could Threaten Websites, Study Says If your company is like most organizations, you’ve spent a good deal of time and money securing your websites and the back-end data they draw from. But what about the ads, widgets, and other content that’s put on your site by third parties? If you haven’t secured that content as well, your organization could be at risk, according to a new report published today by security startup Dasient.

.CO Internet, the registry for the recently relaunched .CO country code Top Level Domain, is pushing for the ccTLD being recognised as an alternative to .COM. Their goal has received a boost with Google agreeing to rank .CO domains as a generic Top Level Domain is their content is targeted globally and not just at Colombian internet users, according to a report in PC Pro. “We will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted.

How should you handle somebody else out there stealing content from your website?  This happens a lot with blogs, because the content is so easily ripped from one source so it can be reproduced somewhere else.  Most of the time, it is best to content the copyright thief first before going to the web host of the thief.  So here is a better way to stop copyright theft of your website’s content. The first thing you will want to do is find some contact information for the person who is stealing your content.  This can often be done by looking at their about page, the contact page, in the footer of the website, or even in the meta tags or source code.  Once you have a name or e-mail address, you can take the next step.

Many people wonder whether or not they should utilize web hosting reviews in their quest to compare web hosting, and with good reason. Very often the reviews are little more than thinly disguised ads written by either the web hosts themselves, or by affiliates thereof. They all have a vested interest

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that is often used as a blog publishing application. WordPress is used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites, and is the most popular blog software in use today. Web host QiQ have recently launched a special WordPress package to help make getting started with WordPress a breeze.

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