The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have announced that it will be possible to apply for your own domain extension if you have suitable justification, most likely these will be the reserve of big corporations and cities. This is down in part to the $185,000 application fee attached, don’t be surprised if you find .apple, .coke and .london being picked up by their respective companies and councils.
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Monday 06/06/2011 – eBay have today announced they are purchasing the remaining 51% stake in Magento Inc. the company behind the open source eCommerce platform Magento.
The full announcement is available to read here and states that Magento will join X.Commerce, eBay’s newly created integrated open source platform group, this hopefully suggests that Magento will continue to be available free of charge as a Community Edition, as well as their commercial editions.
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Most of you will have heard about Chromebooks now from the keynote at the 2011 Google I/O developer conference (If not where have you been? Skip to the 40 minute mark to get up to speed on Chromebooks!), my first impression was that they sound impressive but best suited to casual users, seeing as they were pitching to developers though I wondered if this was really the case?
Here’s a recap of some of the positives that they pushed:
Many affiliate sites are run using the WordPress platform which is a great idea due to it’s flexibility and ease of use, not to mention the huge community and range of plugins available. There are a few plugins that can make your life easier straight away when starting a new site, here’s a list of some of the best for an affiliate site:
SEO:
Many website owners are not aware of how to utilise the tools that they have been given to create the most value for their customers. Few websites pay enough attention to their readers and realise that they are the most important part of the site, without visitors there is no reason for the site to exist. When you consider there are thousands of people creating new websites each and every day, the bar for entry is raised as someone who is engaged and enthusiastic about a topic starts a new site. Read More »
Search engine optimisation allows for individuals who own websites to grow their website as well as to be successful in moving up the search engine rankings. Search engines send a large amount of traffic to websites on a daily basis, depending what kind of site you run this could easily account for 90% of traffic. However, many websites do not take full advantage of the amount of traffic they could receive by neglecting internal link structure. Read More »