Digital River’s Destructive Acquisition Strategy

Most of us have grown weary of Digital River's acquisitions and are no longer shocked when the announcements are made. How many of us have considered the implications involved in the volume of "takeovers"? I, like almost everyone in the industry, have been fairly complacent about the acquisitions, but now I'm seeing limited choices for developers and the fact is the "little guy" can no…

Intro to Darwinism

No, this isn't going to be a religious or scientific battle about the origin of our universe. It's going to be a first look at Darwin, the underlying level of Mac OS X. Right now you are probably asking yourself why, how, or are confused as to what Darwin really is. I can give a you a great nutshell answer for each. Strap on your…

Local Search Explodes

Happy New Year! Cheers to big clicks in 2004! In Tuesday's issue we looked at Google predictions for 2004. As we all know, Google's not the only search engine, and those of us whose rankings dropped after the Florida update learned that it's not profitable to expect traffic from Google.

6 “Life or Death” Factors For Any Website!

Not a week goes by that half a dozen people don't ask me what separates a great, money-making website from a bad one. In response, I surveyed a number of different websites, large and small, to find what they share in common to make them so successful. With few exceptions, every extraordinarily great website contained the following elements:

The Wrong Way to Upgrade Your RPMs

Most Linux distributions use the RPM[1] format for their software packages. RPMs are managed by the rpm program, which typically lives at /usr/bin/rpm.[2]