(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The opening session in the main forum on Thursday was delivered by Bhavin Turakhia of Reseller Club. He dispensed with the not-a-sales-pitch pretense and straight-up pitched a product, but it was a fairly interesting offer, judging by the questions that followed the pitch. While Directi offers all kinds of services for hosting providers, he dove right into describing a new offering from the company, called Chat.pw for domains, an instant messaging platform built from the ground up for hosting providers and their customers

Bill Clinton is addressing the San Francisco-Silicon Valley ICANN meeting this Wednesday and ICANN has asked for questions from the audience. Questions for President Clinton need to be submitted in advance and will be moderated with Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO, joining President Clinton on stage after the speech asking the questions on behalf of the community

A still from the amusing Rackspace video clip promoting the Appmatcher service (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and cloud computing provider Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched matchmaking engine AppMatcher ( www.appmatcher.com ), which helps businesses quickly locate the apps they need. Details about the app engine were announced at Rackspace’s SaaS Summit on Thursday in San Antonio.

The deployment of DNSSEC in the .FR (France) ccTLD by AFNIC commenced on 14 September.

Social Engineers Successfully Gather Info The one glimmer of hope during last week’s social-engineering contest at Defcon18 was when two different employees at a major retailer separately shut down a contestant trying to smooth-talk his way into gathering sensitive information on their company. “One of them said the questions [asked of her] sounded ‘fishy’” and that she couldn’t answer the questions for security reasons, says Chris Hadnagy, founder of social-engineer.org, which sponsored the Social Engineering Capture The Flag contest in Las Vegas last week. “We all clapped — we thought that [reaction] was great

Webhostingforum.com. All rights reserved (PRWEB) August 2, 2010 Webhostingforum.com has just launched a whole new design for their website, sure to please past users and newcomers alike. Armed with a fresh clean look and a clear menu system, all in various shades of rich green and grey, one of the web’s most trusted sources of hosting info, expects to get even more traffic and recognition.

‘Facebook Questions’ launches, lets you poll Facebook’s 500 million users Facebook today officially introduced a new feature called Facebook Questions, the social network’s take on crowd sourced question and answer sites like Yahoo Answers, Quora, and Hunch. The new feature, still classified as a beta, lets users ask questions of the vast Facebook community of more than 500 million simply by typing them into a new field labeled “What do you want to know?” While it has not yet been rolled out to all users, the new Facebook Questions feature will appear as a button labeled “Ask Question” across a users’ homepage