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For today's discussion, I have one simple question for you, 'How big can the cloud get?'

I'm not going to leave you with something that cryptic, so let me explain. Earlier this week at GDC 09 (Game Developers Conference), a new video game service was announced: OnLive. It has been receiving a lot of buzz online, and for good reason.

A short summary is that OnLive is a streaming service that allows gamers to play a wide array of titles. I'm not talking flash based games, but standard games that release in retail. All someone needs is the browser plug-in, and a fast enough connection to utilize the service. If you want to know more details, I did a write-up for it.

When cloud computing, and SaaS first took off there was a large amount of applications that followed. I believe with OnLive we could be seeing a second revolution of sorts. If they're able to be successful and stream as much data as it takes to run a game, I think some inspiration could hit other companies. That is 'if' they succeed.

Earlier I asked how big the cloud can get. I'll provide my own answer, and say it has the potential to block the sun. However, potential doesn't always translate to reality. We have much work to do with increasing bandwidth, and connection speeds before our heads can get too big. Where do you see the cloud going?

Attention WebProWorld: I wanted to let everyone know that one of our fellow members, ctabuk, will make an appearance on BBC Radio. He will be discussing his upcoming book, 'The Adventures of Michael Fane' with Lincolnshire host, Melvyn Prior. The interview will be next Thursday (Apr 2nd) at 3PM GMT. Here's a link to Lincolnshire radio, so show your support and listen in. Might hear something about WPW.. ;)

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Changing Domain Name for 3 Year Old Site. Is My To Do List Correct?

Changing Domain Name for 3 Year Old Site. Is My To Do List Correct?
So our domain name blows and we decided to change it to an existing domain with some cred.

What's missing from this to-do?

1) Copy everything onto the new domain.
2) 301 redirect each page to correct page on new domain. (telling google it's permanent and to pass pr.
3) Contact the thousands of pages linking to me and request domain name change.
4) Pray

Anything missing?

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Looking at Swap Shop Software

Hi all

A client of mine would like to set up a swap shop on his current website. Basically he wants an area of his website where people with similar products (in the craft industry) can post items they wish to swap and if interested they can contact the poster with an offer.

my question is: is there a software that can do all this or does it have to be developed from scratch?

Any help as always will be gratefully received.

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First Time Ever

For the first time ever I'm going to have to beat the streets and use traditional marketing techniques to sell a product.

We've made a new product targeting small to medium used auto dealers. Ones that want an online auto inventory, but were turned off by the price of existing products in the market.

The problem with most of the existing application that allow an auto dealer are:
1- They do too much, making them more expensive and harder to use.
2- There's no training available for under-confident non-tech dealers.

Our application is easy as e-mail, seriously.
And the cost is only a few thousand. No we won't continually keep charging per car or anything like that. We also will do on site training (it's to locally marketed to 6 counties in Florida) and even add your first round of cars. Florida Auto Sales (FastWay)

I'm just too short on money to wait for interest to come to me.

Question is, Besides cold calling dealers who don't have a web site, how else does traditional marketing (when broke) actually work?

Got any ideas for pushing this product?

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Internet Explorer 8 Cross Site Scripting Filter

Playing around with my new install of Internet Explorer 8, I got the following message in the information bar that shows page-related security alerts...

"Internet Explorer has modified this page to help prevent cross-site scripting. Click here for more information..."

As usual, clicking the information bar only opened a generic help window, with no information about what triggered the filter, or how to correct whatever problem was detected. This tells me that if such a message is encountered on one of my sites, tracking down the issue will be difficult to say the least.

I have already encountered sites that have triggered the filter. Most of these issues were related to advertising code. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to diagnose these issues. A developer needs to install Microsoft's Compatibility Viewer to view the event log generated by the filter. This application can be downloaded from: Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0

Information on the filter can be found here: IEBlog : IE8 Security Part IV: The XSS Filter

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