How To Take the Personal Out of the Workplace
Bringing your emotional baggage into the work place is inappropriate for all the reasons you may imagine. Yet employees, managers and business owners do it all the time.
UK Privacy Issues Cleared For Google
Google’s new email service Gmail, source of much criticism based on ad placement procedures, may be getting some good news. As long as UK users are not being deceived by this practice, Gmail should be clear of its legal issues.
Gmail Open To Changes, Perhaps Opt-in For Ad Placement
Intense criticism from privacy groups concerning Google’s email service Gmail have led to Google considering changes to some of Gmail’s practices. The main issue is the scanning of all emails for keywords in order to place contextual ads.
Building Your Web Business With Links
Read the advice on SEO boards and tutorials these days and you will find a lot of information about linking. There are debates and “facts” on whom you should link to and whether reciprocal links are good or bad. The reality is that the Web is made up of links and you should link to sites that your users will find helpful.
Should you Put your PCs Out to Pasture?
PC shipments to businesses are expected to be substantial in 2004, with a projected 12.7% increase compared with 2003, according to International Data Corp. This is good news for corporate users who have been waiting patiently to invest in much-needed PC upgrades.
Injecting Client-Side Script from an ASP.NET Server Control
While, technically, all of a Microsoft ASP.NET server control’s functionality can be performed on the server-side, often the usability of a server control can be greatly enhanced by adding client-side script. For example, the ASP.NET validation Web controls perform all validation checks on the server-side. However, for uplevel browsers, the validation Web controls also emit client-side script so that validation can be performed on the client-side as well. This means that users of those browsers get a more responsive, dynamic experience.
Gmail And Its Optimizers May Hurt Online Publishers
OK, how many times have you searched online today? Now, how many times have you checked your email? If Gmail passes through the gauntlet of privacy activists and gets the number of users it will take to provide real value to advertisers, then AdSense in Gmail will become a crucial product in the advertising mix.
Branding Your Business Part I
Branding is the process of creating a specific strong, memorable image and identity for your business. Besides utilizing good design and media that will help sell your product or service and stick in consumers’ minds, a good brand should inspire loyalty and confidence in your company by emoting specific responses and associations in your target audience.
File and Email Encryption with GnuPG (PGP), Part Two
Jumping right in, let’s create our PGP public/private key pair. I’ll use GnuPG, the Gnu Privacy Guard, available at http://www.gnupg.org, and which is very likely already available with your Linux distribution. If you want to use older free or commercial PGP versions, the commands are very similar. Any GUI front end will also have the same functionality.
Amazon Enters Search Engine Fray With A9
Online retail giant Amazon has entered the search engine wars with their own search engine. Called A9, Amazon’s search is built around the Google search engine and uses AdWord placements, but the similarities stop there.