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SitePoint introduces new trust system
Internet News SitePoint today announced a new feature for their popular trading marketplace called ‘The User Trust System’. The new system adds a trust score to your profile. There are two main ways to boost your trading rating. The first way is to add your telephone number to your profile. Once SitePoint has verified your number you will get a rating boost of 60%. The remaining 40% is determined by the positive and negative feedback you receive ...
Continue readingFireFox 3 released
Internet News Tomorrow, June 17th 2008, is the official launch of FireFox 3, the latest FireFox client which has been in development for a whopping 34 months! To coincide with the release Mozilla are trying to set a Guiness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. I used Opera for years but switched my main browser to FireFox a year or two ago and haven’t looked back. You can make a pledge to download the browser tomorrow if you like but ...
Continue readingAlexa improve rankings system
Internet News Alexa, the traffic tracking site which has always been criticized for being unreliable (by me anyways!), has announced that it has improved its ranking system. Website statistics are now calculated using a wide range of sources. In their announcement they do not give much away as to the sources of their new data but I’m sure this will come out in the next few months. I have never been a fan of Alexa as ratings can be manipulated very ...
Continue readingNewsGator Consumer Products are Now Free
Internet News On January 9, 2008, NewsGator announced that it made a big change in its business model. Now, users can get all of NewsGator’s consumer products for free. Those free products include: NetNewsWire 3.1 FeedDemon 2.6 NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0 NewsGator Inbox 3.0 (beta) NewsGator Go! for Blackberry All of NewsGators online platform products (iPhone Reader, HTML Reader, etc.) NewsGator is promoting its free suite of products ...
Continue readingDMoz could be getting dropped by Google – About frickin time!
Internet News I cam across a post today by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land regarding the open directory project (aka Dmoz). They realised that Dmoz isn’t listed when you search for dmoz on Google. Fingers crossed that is an indication Dmoz is finally going to go to the website graveyard in the sky. Dmoz has been currupt for as long as I can remember, I once waited more than 2 years for my site submission to be accepted. This sort of timescale was ...
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