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Hit counts measures the number of requests sent for a file to the server.   This is a dated and largely unhelpful metric because every request for any file is counted. Although it sounds useful, in actual fact it gives you little actionable information. If you have a page containing four images, one request for that page is counted as five hits. To increase your hits, you can add images to the page!   Due to the misleading nature of the metric, few people use … Read more

Apture’s Contextual Search keeps users engaged with your content by giving them the tools to search and share without even leaving your page. Give your readers the power to search the web for rich content from Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Flickr, YouTube and others all through your site.

Facebook announced major changes today to the design and functionality of its Pages, bringing them closer to individual user profiles in look and functionality. We’re excited about these updates, as they will improve the ability of our customers to connect with audiences.

On March 16th, 2011 windows live spaces will close. Who really uses it?

Its not only links you can select on YouTube, you can now change the story line or ending of a video by changing the title of the video. It kind of beats the Old Spice Man campaign, in that multiple endings are already created.

Can you imagine an entire television series on one disc? Still only 7% of Americans owned a blu-ray player and 51% of people in all age groups watch television online.

I found this article at OpenForum.com What is interesting is that many companies and organizations (big or small) do not pay attention to their website. Its your online business face, it should always be clean, maintained and reflect professionalism. When it comes to websites, small business owners tend to fall into one of two camps: The first are those whose website is vital, and they integrate it into their overall business. They look for the latest and greatest trick, they understand SEO, they blog and … Read more

If you live in Mexico you certanly have TELMEX for your telephone, DSL and TV needs. Well it looks like they are not only going social but also app crazy.

Hate it or love it, the Flash Player is here to stay. HTML5 is the called the Flash killer. But when it comes to games, video and media in general, Flash is a winner. But the Flash Player has yet another Ace up the its sleeve, Augmented Reality. AR has many uses when it comes to directions, presentations and games. And now it does not need any other special plugin but the Flash Player, and since its in 99% of all machines installed, we should … Read more

I remember the time that when you wanted some cool interaction you needed to do it flash. That meant learning a hole new language (ActionScript), plus learning how to use flash. Then the hole web 2.0 came to be, AJAX. It sounds more like some kind of soap… well in a way it is, you could say it cleaned up a lot of how web programming was done. Now for AJAX all you needed was your old school basic knowledge of XHTML, CSS and JS. … Read more

I have been researching various social networks dedicated to learning languages. Interestingly they all have there unique twist. From embedding flash cards for your websites to writing and becoming official translators (like yahoo answers). Here are the few good ones I found: http://www.byki.com/ http://www.italki.com/ http://www.livemocha.com/ http://www.voxswap.com/ http://www.babbel.com/ Byki for example lets your create your own flash cards, with voice and share them on websites and other social networks. VoxSwap and iTalki reminds me more of a MySpace for learning languages. But very professional looking with … Read more

This new online tool is pretty cool. With Factual, it’s easy to collect and present content that will keep your readers coming back for more. By using open data sets and building a community of contributors, you can create enormous databases of useful information – and keep them up to date – at almost no cost. Why should you care about open data? Keeping proprietary data fresh and accurate costs money and time. But “open data” is emerging as an alternative sourcing model that can … Read more

Don’t you just hated when your working on a project and everything looks perfect… but the font displaying the message is just not cutting the cake. You spend half an hour just scrolling your systems font list just end up frustrated. Next step, you go online to look for the perfect font and it has a price tag on it, and you have a budget. If your that person, I have compiled a small list of sites that offer FREE fonts, no catch: www.searchfreefonts.com www.dafont.com … Read more

YouTube is great for sharing videos, easy and fun. But what about live events, specially events talking place in your business. Well you could use YouTube, Vimeo or other video services, but nothing gives you the power like uStream.tv. Its a free live streaming service you can use for security your own cams, live cams in business and streaming events. It gives you the power to add text, videos, polls, twitter, viewer stats and communicate live with your viewers. If you can learn to wield … Read more

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Eran Stern demonstrates how you can create the illusion of time bending with a special focus on the correct way of using the CC Time Blend FX.