Michigan Schools Get Google Apps For Education

Google occasionally works out deals with individual universities, but it appears that the search engine company is starting to think big.  Not Texas-big, perhaps, but Michigan-big.  It’s in this latter state that Google intends to roll out Google Apps for Education.

Keep WordPress From Overwriting .htaccess Rules

For as long As I care to remember I’ve been having issues with my Wordpress .htaccess file. .htaccess file is a small Apache file that lets you do all sorts of funky things with requests made to your server. It’s also one of SEO’s best tools. I have a lot of custom 301 redirects set up, including a redirect which makes my site available only…

Social Burnout: MySpace & Facebook

One question online community operators wrestle with is how many communities (social networks, blogs, forums, wikis, etc.) one individual can participate in.

Plans For Google Kenya Kick Into High Gear

Starbucks, McDonalds, and Google - I’m starting to think that, by 2040 or so, there will be at least one building per company on every square mile of this planet.  The latest bit of evidence supporting this theory is Google’s plan to expand into Kenya.

Google May Ask You To Prove You’re Human

British digi-rag the Inquirer's Fernando Cassia had a run in with the "GoogleMind," as he calls it, after entering a query that sent up red flags. To continue his search, Cassia had to prove he wasn't a robot.