Web Hosting News – FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Cloud Leadership Forum, produced by International Data Corp (IDC) and IDG Enterprise, today announced the Forum’s finalized agenda, which will bring together the cloud industry’s most influential vendors, senior IT executives and IDC analysts on June 13-15 in Santa Clara, California, to examine ways to advance the successful adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud models. Session content for this groundbreaking event was crafted by IDC and IDG Enterprise with the help of an influential advisory board representing a who’s who in the cloud space including such industry juggernauts as Accenture, Akamai, Amazon, AT&T, Citrix, Cisco, CSC, Dell, HP, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel Corp., Juniper, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, SAP, Sun National Bank, Symantec, Tickets.com, USGA, and Verizon Business, who will be announcing the newest addition to its growing suite of cloud-based services — Verizon Cloud Storage

On Tech Brief today: The iPad app that was famous for a few hours, a web browser that strips away adverts, and the man who bought his local police website as revenge for a speeding ticket. • It seems that 12 hours is a very long time in the iPad App world. As Kara Swisher points out , yesterday morning Steve Jobs praised the developers of the iPad app, Pulse News Reader, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco

Hosting News – COMPUTEX, Taipei – At Computex today, Intel Corporation unveiled new products and features based on its low-power Intel® Atom™ processor family, including plans to further differentiate the popular netbook category and expand into several new market segments beyond its growing PC, laptop and server businesses. In the past 45 days, Intel and its Atom™ processor has entered a variety of markets beyond the more than 50 million Intel-based netbooks sold in the past 2 years.

If you have used computer lab PCs at Mines, you know that there are some applications that are not quite up-to-date on them, or that just are not there. It is not such a big deal if you have a laptop computer that you take to class anyway, but if you do not have that luxury and are trying to open an Acrobat file in your web browser on a CCIT-administered machine, be prepared for things not to work. This big issue here is that, without administrative access to your system (granted, for very good reasons), you cannot fix the problem by updating Adobe Acrobat to a version that is not a few releases out of date

This morning, HostGator, a web host in Houston, Texas, proudly announced that the company is the new winner of the 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards for web hosting . Jennifer Krynin, who is a writer for About.com, polled website visitors during the first 2 weeks of January 2010. The visitors were required to explain their preferred choice in at least 50 words to make the poll more reliable

HostGator Wins About.com Reader’’s Choice Best in Web Hosting Awards Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:40:03 AM The votes are in and HostGator.com has won three out of four 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards from About.com. HostGator.com, a leading web hosting provider, was declared winner in three separate categories for the About.com, a New York Times Company, 2010 Reader’s Choice Awards for web hosting

It’s not in every account, but “Server Clipboard” is an intriguing addition to Google Docs. It bypasses browser problems with copying and pasting, and lets you copy multiple items and paste them—in Docs, for now, and probably Gmail soon

Inspiration for a web site’s content is often hard to find.  So when I find myself in trouble, I turn towards my own list of six different content writing ideas that should help inspire you to get that new page up and running. I would suggest you bookmark this list of content ideas, and save them for a rainy non-creative day. List – A list comes in handy in a number of different ways for a number of different reasons.  Give the the top 10 reasons why this is great.  Give me the top 4 reasons why you shouldn’t do that.  Lists are also easily scan-able, so web site visitors love to check them out.

About.com Reader’s Choice Awards 2010 Linux hosting is very prevalent on the Web, but how do you find a good one?

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Who has the best Linux Web Hosting service on the Web today?

Like everyone else on Earth, I hate being on the receiving end of an email drip campaign.   Spammy, repetitive, annoying, often just barely better than a lottery-winner-notification from Nigeria, the real estate agent’s drip campaign can be the lifeblood of his business, or the death of it. After dozens of changes and experiments with my own campaigns, I offer the 7 most important things I’ve learned about drip campaigns for real estate: People hate HTML rich emails.  If your drip emails have lots of colorful HTML and banners, they might suck.  If you want people to read your emails, then keep them simple with no banners and pictures of your happy home selling face.  Nothing says “SPAM” like a colorful email that looks like it came from Best Buy.  People are more likely to respond to auto-responders if they don’t know it’s an auto-responder

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7 Principles for Drip Email Campaigns that don’t suck