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The Death of the Yellow Pages

by Pete on May 23, 2010

Why you should be actively promoting your business online Many business owners out there may wonder why they should spend money post their company on the web. Why they can’t stick with the tried and true methods that has kept them in business for years, possibly decades. The tools people use to gather information now, [...]

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How to Upload HD Videos to YouTube

by Pete on May 11, 2010

This Tutorial is meant for a Flip Mino HD Camcorder, but this tutorial would work for any other HD camcorder as well. You may have just bought a Flip HD camcorder, tried to put the videos on YouTube, and found that the video quality wasn’t nearly to the level that you expected. In this tutorial, [...]

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BitTorrent Explanation

by Pete on May 9, 2010

What Is BitTorrent? BitTorrent is a method of transferring large amounts of data (huge files) from one computer to another (peer to peer) over the internet. Types of files could be music, movies, software. It was developed in 2001 and has since become an extremely popular method for transferring files over the web, some estimates [...]

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Facebook Privacy

May 4, 2010

Why it’s a bad idea to post your party pics on facebook, or anything else incriminating on the web for that matter Although it may not seem like a big deal when those party pics of you first got posted on the web back in university, it could definitely turn into something more consequential in [...]

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Google Ads

May 2, 2010

how they make money and how you can make money on the web _ How Google Makes Money with their Web Search When the founders of Google first conceived their web search idea, they had no clue how it would make them money; they just knew they had a superior product to anyone else out [...]

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Search Engine Optimization or How to get Noticed by Google Part 2

April 30, 2010

Here are a few simple steps you could follow to increase your Google PageRank, and to actually start making money with your online business. Without any hits to your website, you’re not going to generate any money. There is an overwhelming amount of text, media, and god knows what out there on the internet, so [...]

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How the Google PageRank Algorithm Works, or How to Get Yourself Noticed on Google

April 30, 2010

How did Google collect such a thorough knowledge of what a person may be looking for when he or she types in a small phrase to a Google web search? Especially when you consider what little knowledge Google has of that specific person. I mean the person is completely anonymous, the only thing that is [...]

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Google Maps Extensions

April 29, 2010

The first Google Maps “mashup” was created by a developer named Paul Rademacher. A mashup is a term meaning an extension to the usability of Google Maps beyond just satellite images and street maps. Rademacher envisioned that housing ads on Craigslist could be linked to Google Maps.  His idea was whenever anyone searched for a [...]

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Google Maps and Google Earth Creation

April 22, 2010

When Google decided to take on these projects, it was already a well established web search company, one of the heavy-hitters in the internet world. However, no one else decided to tackle such a large project because Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google’s cofounders , would never be satisfied until they fulfilled their mission from [...]

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