Owning A Website Is More Than Just Having It Built

Things you need to know before building a website of any kind. Internet business is big whether your business is solely Internet based or not. It's also true whether you are a large corporation or a mom and pop business with a small site for local clients only.

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Whitelist Stays: AOLs Goodmail Dance

Let's start by putting out a fire. America Online is not, repeat, is not phasing out its Enhanced Whitelist email system and rewarding that elite group of good emailers by extorting a fraction of a cent per hyperlink and image laden emails through Goodmail as a new type of email postage charge.

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Comments are Integral Parts of the Conversation

While I'm still having a bit of difficulty figuring out whether the 30Boxes calendaring service is worth spending any time with or not, I'm having no such difficulty in seeing the value of a service like coComment.

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Book Search Praised From Lions Den

Google's Book Search project got major kudos from University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman speaking from within "the lion's den" also known as the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The AAP launched a lawsuit against Google in October 2005 alleging copyright infringement as a result of the search company's massive book digitization project.

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