Weekly posts about web hosting and the web hosting industry. With HostDime updates and announcements.
With technology constantly changing, it can be hard for some to keep up with the latest gizmos and gadgets. However, even the most technologically challenged can tell that tablets and laptops seem to be the in thing right about now. It is a fact that more and more individuals, businesspersons and casual consumers, are relying on such devices in order to get the job done.
It seems that these items are hot…literally.
We all know that when it comes to social networking, Facebook and Google+ seem to be where it’s at. In fact, it’s even been proven that both are pretty good for business. However, with those two prevalent forms of social media, along with Twitter, continuing to be dominant, other social networking sites are being kicked to the curb. Perhaps it pays to know what else is out there. To that end, here is the lowdown on three social networking sites that you may have heard of, but never took the liberty to visit…
For small businesses, new cloud-based communications solutions are beginning to kick over long-standing barriers, enabling a new wave of innovation in customer service and business processes. In his 2012 predictions blog, John Engates, chief technology officer for Rackspace computing, talked about the growing awareness of the advantages of cloud solutions, “A huge advantage for SMBs is that economies of scale in managed services means they get access to dazzling IT sophistication for very little money.” That’s really what the promise of the cloud is all about: making business-critical solutions widely available at a cost that scales up or down with the size and requirements of a given business.
It seems to be an accepted fact that the minds at Google are always up to something. Just last week, it was announced that the corporation was designing their own tablet, and now it seems they’re trying to offer users more insight into their Google account doings. It was recently announced that Google is launching Account Activity, a new feature that enables users, that sign up, a chance to take stock of what exactly they are doing online.
Two years ago, if anyone would have told me that I’d be working in web hosting, I’d have called them a liar. It is an accepted fact among my peers and colleagues that I like writing. Putting pen to paper just seems to beguile me — hence the reason I majored in journalism and communications. I wanted to meet people, inspire others and interview legends while clutching a digital audio recorder and asking pressing questions. It’s funny that sometimes the things that we plan on doing don’t quite work out the way that we expected – not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, sometimes our trajectories in terms of a career can lead us to something we didn’t quite anticipate…like web hosting for example.
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