Search Engine Trends and SEO

The past year has been one of major transition in the search engine industry. Changes to the landscape have been enormous with mergers, acquisitions, and the easing of several formerly big-players out of the sector or, in the case of AltaVista, Lycos and LookSmart, into the minor leagues. We've seen new technologies and revenue models being tested by search firms, along with fresh promises of…

Using XML to Store States and Provinces

With every single project I've ever worked on, I've had to deal with displaying U.S. States. Sometimes I needed to include territories like Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; sometimes I needed to include Canadian provinces. It varied across projects so I wanted an easy way to store the information I needed and to be able to easily and quickly add, edit, and delete…

Lycos Founder on Venture Capitalism

Bob Davis, a partner with Highland Capital Partners, offered his insight into the world of investment banking during a presentation at last week's Search Engine Strategies conference.

…And How Do You Expect Me to Audit SQL Server?

Is your organization faced with pending audits resulting in long and tedious meetings to try to achieve compliance? Have you been hearing a foreign set of acronyms around the water cooler like HIPAA, SOX, GLBA and SAS 70? Have these new sets of requirements been causing consternation for your DBAs, Developers and Management? Have you been trying to figure how you are going to write…