If you’re launching a new site, using Google Sitemaps is a must. The reason is simple - it alerts Google about your existence. Including all your pages in the XML file ensures that Googlebot will have an easier time crawling your site.
Just 10 years ago, all major search engines accepted and […]

According to Bob Parsons, 35 million domain names were registered in April. I trust him - GoDaddy’s one of the biggest registrars on the block, so they probably have their facts right.
Compared to a few years ago, this is a manifold increase. Surely, this is a good sign - a growing number […]

Bill Gates showed up at MIX06. Being a Certified Microsoft Partner, we [at iconcertina] had to tune in to what he had to say. You can do the same by clicking this webcast (Windows Media Player).
A BIG part of his presentation focused on how web sites and traditional application are coming […]

Ever since the advent of the internet, sending software on CD’s has seemed like a dying art. According to the blogosphere, the 95% profit margins on the software sent on these CD’s have been dead for some time already.
If you like grim predictions for the future of software companies who still stick […]

In a recent post on outsourcing, I reviewed a new book (Multisourcing: Moving beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth and Agility) which tries to change the way we think about outsourcing in general. It seems that the specifics are changing quite rapidly as well.
In an interview published Monday (in the German edition […]

The five-letter answer is ICANN. Nominally, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a private corporation. A recent meeting in Tunis of the WSIS sparked up the debate for the independence of ICANN and its transformation to a more “international” entity.
Currently, ICANN’s founding document states that “neither national […]

At her recent presentation at the Symposium ITxpo, Gartner analyst Linda Cohen officially announced the death of outsourcing:

You have to stop outsourcing now! Research suggests that 50 percent of outsourcing contracts signed during the last three years will fail to meet expectations.

The reason for the failure of outsourcing seems obvious, if […]

In a surprise move, IBM encouraged its 320,000 employees to blog. A set of draft rules was posted on the company’s Intranet site to govern blogs that are on IBM-related topics.
Big Blue’s own internal blogging system already hosts about 9,000 blogs (that’s less than 3% of employees). There are numerous […]

Normally, you’d have to wait till the end of the story to get the answer. I can’t stretch it that far. They have NOTHING in common. In fact, they’re more than that – they’re like Microsoft and Linux.
We all love our iPods. Who wouldn’t pay 0.99 for Coldplay’s new single? It’s all […]

We’ve all seen the recent images of bulldozers tearing through walls and driving thousands of people homeless in Harare. It made me realize the old claim, that domains (dot coms especially) are a lot like real-estate, still holds true today.
Mugabe’s campaign – promoted by the government as “Murambatsvina”, or “drive out […]