Trade Shows, Conferences, Summits & Networking 2011 EVENTS CALENDAR EVENT START DATE END DATE LOCATION Wireless Symposium & WiExpo 12 January 14 January Savannah, Georgia IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 18 January Taiwan DesignCon 18 January 3 February Santa Clara, CA Social Networking Conference 19 January 21 January Miami, FL WHIR Networking Event 20 January Los Angeles, CA DOMAINfest 1 February 3 February Santa Monica, CA IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 1 February Thailand Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition 1 February 3 February San Diego, CA SmartGrid Conference 2 February 3 February Miami Beach, FL VMware Partner Exchange 8 February 11 February Florida SES Accelerator: Search & Social 10 February San Diego, CA IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 10 February India (Mumbai) IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 11 February India (New Delhi) IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 15 February Korea Datacenter Dynamics 15 February Atlanta WHIR Networking Event 17 February Dallas, TX Data Centres 17 February 18 February Budapest SES London 21 February 25 February London Parallels Summit 22 February 24 February Orlando, FL Enterprise Connect 22 February 2 March Orlando, FL CIO Canada Summit 27 February 2 March Montreal, QC IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 1 March New Zealand Domain Roundtable 1 March 4 March Bahamas IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 3 March Sydney MVP Nation 3 March 4 March Seattle, WA IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 8 March Hong Kong SMX 8 March 10 March San Jose, CA IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 9 March Malaysia ad tech 9 March 10 March Sydney WHIR Networking Event 10 March New York, NY IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 10 March China (Beijing) eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit 13 March 18 March San Francisco, CA IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 15 March Singapore IDC’s Cloud For Business Conference 17 March China (Shanghai) SES New York 21 March 25 March New York Web Hosting Days 22 March 25 March Germany AFCOM Data Center World 27 March 31 March Las Vegas, NV Web 2.0 Expo 28 March 31 March San Francisco, CA ad tech 30 March 31 March Melbourne IT360 5 April Toronto SMX 5 April 6 April Munich eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit 5 April 6 April Munchen ad tech 11 April 13 April San Francisco Datacentre Transformation Summit 12 April Amsterdam IP Possibilities 12 April 14 April Kansas City, MO SMX 14 April 16 April Sydney eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit 14 April 16 April Sydney eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit 26 April 29 April Toronto ad tech 27 April 28 April India (New Delhi) WHIR Networking Event 28 April Chicago, IL SMX 28 April 29 April Toronto Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 3 May 6 May Boston, MA INTEROP 8 May 10 May Las Vegas, NV UptimeInstitute Symposium 9 May 12 May Santa Clara, CA DOMAINfest 13 May Ft. Lauderdale SMX 16 May 17 May London Future of Web Design 16 May 18 May London WHIR Networking Event 19 May Toronto, ON PHP TEK 24 May 27 May Chicago, IL INTEROP 6 June 10 June Tokyo, Japan SMX 6 June 7 June Paris eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit 6 June 7 June Paris Cloud Expo 6 June 9 June New York, NY SMX 7 June 8 June Seattle ICSOB 8 June 10 June Belgium WHIR Networking Event 16 June Atlanta, GA ad tech 16 June 17 June Singapore Hosting & Cloud Transformation 21 June 22 June London Social Networking Conference 22 June 24 June Beverly Hills, CA FOSE 19 July 21 July Washington D.C. WHIR Networking Event 21 July Montreal, QC HostingCon 8 August 10 August San Diego, CA DOMAINfest 18 August New York, NY SMX September Stockholm eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit September Stockhom SMX 13 September 15 September New York ad tech 21 September 22 September London WHIR Networking Event 22 September Scottsdale, AZ INTEROP 28 September 30 September Mumbai, India Social Networking Conference 29 September 30 September Moscow, Russia eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit October Washington D.C

Twitter.com Investigated by Office of Fair Trading Monday, January 10, 2011, 9:59:48 AM The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has proclaimed an interest in social networking and microblogging site Twitter.com. In a press release on the matter the OFT stated that celebrities and influential people that are paid to favour or promote certain products on sites like Twitter are breaching fair trading laws by deceiving the public with their relationship to the product. OFT says that any promotional activity “must clearly identify when promotions and editorial comment have been paid for, so that consumers are not misled.” Celebrities can earn thousands of dollars or pounds via paid-promotional tweets; The Guardian says how Snoop Dogg can earn a reported $3,000 (£1,900) for a single Tweet, while Reality TV star Kim Kardashian can earn around $10,000 for Tweeting to her 5.6 million followers.

Virtual Internet rolls out new website and products Monday, January 10, 2011, 5:38:37 AM Virtual Internet, the first UK web host to concurrently offer both Xen and VMware cloud servers has announced a revamped website along with new hosting deals, including colocation packages. The new website has been completely redesigned from the ground up to emphasise Virtual Internet’s pedigree as a leading cloud provider, which was strengthened by the recent unveiling of Xen Sandbox Cloud servers over the festive season

In this four-part series, we’ll explore how businesses can build and manage their online reputations Part One: Managing your Web reputation In early December, a Canadian Web hosting company found out the hard way just what happens when the Internet turns on a business.

An image of Bill C-28 from the Government of Canada’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – A new Canadian anti-spam law could cost violators up to $10 million, according to a report Thursday by ITbusiness.ca . Individuals violating the law could be fined a maximum penalty of $1 million, while organizations could be charged up to $10 million. While Bill C-28, or the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, received royal assent on December 15, the report says the new law will not be enforced until approximately eight months from now.  A year ago the Canadian government prorogued Parliament , postponing the Bill from being reviewed by the senate until May 2010

What’s Happening to the Web 2.0 Generation? Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 11:54:36 AM With the rumours that Yahoo! will be getting rid of Delicious.com and AOL will be either selling or shutting down Bebo.com, is it only a matter of time before we start seeing some of the other leading social networking sites going down the drain?

Facebook.com CEO Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s ‘Person of the Year 2010’ Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 11:23:11 AM It was announced this morning that the founder and CEO of social networking site Facebook.com was crowned TIME magazines ‘Person of the Year 2010’. The recipient of the award is selected by TIME’s editors and this year’s decision has caused uproar with TIME readers; nearly half a million of which voted Wikileaks.org founder Julian Assange as their Person of the Year. Assange beat the likes of Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and The Chilean Miners to the top spot while Zuckerberg entered in 10th place, receiving an estimated 350,000 less votes than Assange.

LInkedIn announced the move over the weekend in a blog post by senior director of operations Stefan Apitz (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Business-focused social networking site LinkedIn ( www.linkedin.com ) made the move to a new data center in Los Angeles over the weekend, a move that included some scheduled downtime as well as some performance issues on Monday, according to reports. The company announced via a blog post by senior director of operations Stefan Apitz – over the weekend – that it would make the move, which would include several hours of downtime on Sunday evening (the site’s lowest-traffic time), as it switched over to the new location. The last major data center move by LinkedIn was the opening of a new site in Chicago, back in 2008

Cloud Computing – Out of Control? (Google Chrome OS) Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 11:52:34 AM Google’s Chrome Operating System was only released for Beta testing a week ago and already its demise is being speculated by critics.

LInkedIn announced the move over the weekend in a blog post by senior director of operations Stefan Apitz (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Business-focused social networking site LinkedIn ( www.linkedin.com ) made the move to a new data center in Los Angeles over the weekend, a move that included some scheduled downtime as well as some performance issues on Monday, according to reports. The company announced via a blog post by senior director of operations Stefan Apitz – over the weekend – that it would make the move, which would include several hours of downtime on Sunday evening (the site’s lowest-traffic time), as it switched over to the new location