Michael McDonald of San Francisco used to post his videos on a blog, but now he uses Facebook. Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started posting his clips on Facebook, where his friends were sure to see and comment on his editing skills.
“I don’t use my blog anymore,” said Mr. McDonald, who lives in San Francisco. “All the people I’m trying to reach are on Facebook.”
Analysts are predicting that 2011 will be the year that smartphones will go mainstream in the U.S. market. Research firm Asymco states that 50 percent of the U.S. population will be using smartphones by the end of the year, which is up from 30 percent at the end of 2010 and 18 percent in 2009. Asymco also estimates that some 80 million Americans – approximately one out of every three smartphone users – will be armed with either an Apple iPhone or an Android-powered device by the start of 2012. What does this mean for you as a personal or business website owner? It means you need to consider that more and more visitors to your website will be using mobile technology and you should subsequently be prepared with a mobile theme, or be prepared to lose those same visitors quickly if your site doesn’t show properly. At Hansen Web Design, we can help you by either ensuring your current site shows up correctly for mobile users or by designing an alternative theme that shows up when a mobile user visits your site.
We just added two recently completed sites to our portfolio – Wisconsin Dairy Products Association, a site developed for a local trade association, and Tony’s Armoires, a unique site in that it is an e-commerce site developed on a WordPress platform (works beautifully!). Be sure to check them out when you get a chance!
Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee published his proposal for the World Wide Web. Today, the web is an explosion of pages and apps teeming with videos, photos and interactive content. These powerful new web experiences—such as “The Wilderness Downtown,” our HTML5 collaboration with the band Arcade Fire—are possible thanks to cutting-edge web technologies that bring all this content to life in the modern browser.
But how do browsers and the web actually work? What is HTML5—or HTML, for that matter? What do terms like “cookies” or “cloud computing” even mean? More practically, how can we keep ourselves safe from security threats like viruses when we’re online?
A Silicon Valley trade delegation, led by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, visited President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia in Moscow.
You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other e-mail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth. With 200 billion spam messages in circulation each day, there is still plenty to go around. But police officials in Russia, a major spam exporter, say they are trying to do their part to stem the flow. On Tuesday, police officials here announced a criminal investigation of a suspected spam kingpin, Igor A. Gusev. They said he had probably fled the country. Moscow police authorities said Mr. Gusev, 31, was a central figure in the operations of SpamIt.com, which paid spammers to promote online pharmacies, sometimes quite lewdly. SpamIt.com suddenly stopped operating on Sept. 27. With less financial incentive to send their junk mail, spammers curtailed their activity by an estimated 50 billion messages a day.
Why the site closed was unclear until Tuesday, when Moscow police officials met with reporters to discuss the Gusev case. The officials’ actions were a departure from Russia’s usual laissez faire approach to online crime.
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