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History of the Web
Facebook Timeline of Events – A History Introductions
Typically, the introduction of new Facebook functionality is never warmly welcomed. I am guilty of showing resistance to new Facebook features, maybe because I am a control freak and I hate when my interface changes without being able to have any … Read more
Investigating Google, Verbatim
Google’s Verbatim update will make searching for specific terms easier, but what does that mean for SEO, PPC, and online marketers? In a previous life (read: last month), users could enter in search queries linking words with a ‘+’ operator … Read more
Locations Matter
When designing a website for your company, there are all sorts of things to take into consideration. Is there an appropriate amount of content? Is the site easy to navigate? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Do all of the links work? … Read more
About the User
Just as form follows function has guided generations of architects in designing magnificent structures, Panda, Google’s latest search update, is channeling good content to user’s eyes. Likewise, web substance likely to waste a searcher’s time is increasingly being kicked to … Read more
Center for Innovative Technology (CIT)
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) is a non-profit headquartered in Northern Virginia with a mission is to accelerate technology development in the Commonwealth of Virginia. CIT reports to the Secretary of Technology and the Governor of Virginia via the … Read more
Internet Millionaires
Latin (Hispanic) Social Networking site QuePasa buys (acquires) myYearbook from 21 year old founders (brother and sister) David Cook and Catherine Cook for $100M USD. Talk about an Internet bubble!
Barcode Generate, Barcode Scanner App
Barcodes are the hottest thing right now, its like a URL shortner on graphic steroids. This means www.inQbation.com but it could mean anything. How to create or generate a barcode? Go to www.BarCodesInc.com/generator/qr/ or Google Chart Tools Enter text that … Read more
SEOQ.com smashes Alexa 100,000
In less than 9 months, SEOQ.COM went from 10,000,000 to 100,000 on Alexa.com. http://www.inqbation.com/how-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site
RIP IE6: Microsoft makes it official, IE6 is dead
Via Twitter, Microsoft officially announces that IE6 should no longer be supported. It’s not often that we encourage you to stop using one of our products, but for #IE6, we’ll make an exception. As most web designers already know, Microsoft … Read more
SEO Quotient acquires WebStatsHQ
WASHINGTON, DC – November 5, 2010, Blake Newman and SEO Quotient is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of WebStatsHQ, a web traffic statistical analysis program similar to that of Alexa.com and SmartViper (by Markosweb). SEO Quotient, a product of … Read more
SEO Quotient buys BLVD status
WASHINGTON, DC – On its blog, SEO Quotient™ announced today that it acquired BLVDstatus.com along with the real-time web analytics code that tracks live web stats, keyword rankings reports, custom alerts and a white label solution for SEO professionals.
Foursquare Dennis Crowley Internet Millionaire
In a recent post covering Internet Millionaires, I listed over a dozen dot com entrepreneurs who cashed out – in the millions, sometimes tens of millions and, in a few cases, hundreds of millions – over a period of less … Read more
Internet millionaires & billionaires
With a billion people on this planet connected to the Internet and the barriers to entry relatively low, the Internet has created unprecedented opportunities for people to create unfathomable wealth. What is interesting and remarkable about many of these particular … Read more
Internet entrepreneur sells website for $22 million
Derek Sivers sells CD Baby for $22M The cat’s name is Derek Sivers and back in 1998, he created the website, CD Baby, as a personal need to help fulfill his personal passion (making music) and selling that music online … Read more
Recipe for Success: Facebook, Google, Twitter
Lessons from Silicon Valley If you look at the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies, a large proportion of them are Internet- or Information Technology-based companies. Never in history have so many people become so extraordinarily wealthy from a single industry. The IT … Read more
Voice of America News – History of the Internet
WASHINGTON, DC – Todd Grosshans, of Voice of America News, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first test of the Internet by producing video interviews with Blake Newman (Internet historian and founder of inQbation™), Lee Rainie (Pew Research Center – Pew … Read more
Happy 40th Anniversary – Internet is 40 years old
Although the launch of Russian satellite Sputnik was the inciting incident (1957) that set the wheels of Internet history in motion, it wasn’t until 1969 that the first nodes or web sites were installed on servers at UCLA, Stanford, UC … Read more
History of the Web – WordPress
Matthew Mullenweg, creator of WordPress Along with Google and Facebook and Twitter, I have to say that WordPress, developed by Matthew Mullenweg, must go down in Internet history as one of the most significant events and turning points in the … Read more
History of the Internet: Twitter
When Jack Dorsey sat down for two weeks in March 2006 to create the prototype for Twitter, do you think he had any idea that Twitter would change the course of history? Think about how quickly Twitter has changed the … Read more
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