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WordPress to Facebook Integration Tutorial!

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How do I find a domain name?

Just written a post about how I find domain names to register.

I get asked about it a lot so thought I would share my method with you guys! Hope someone finds it useful?

http://www.webwiseforum.com/domain-management/how-do-i-find-domain-name-t1849.html

Let me know what you think?

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As more and more people become aware of the cybersquatting problem, more and more disputes are being brought to the table!

Make sure you register as many domains as you can to protect your brand and your name!

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Domain Name Registration Guide

Hi everyone!

From all the discussions we've been having over on the domain forum at Web Wise Forum, I've just finished a Squidoo lens that helps you get a bit of basic information if you're new to domain names.

There are tips on choosing a domain name and a registrar.  What makes a great domain name?

It's all there!

Go and check it out by clicking here. 

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Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. - Slate Magazine

Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and schools. Then he singled out the most clear-cut example of how government investment can spark huge business opportunities: the Internet.

“The Internet didn’t get invented on its own,” Obama said. “Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”

Until recently this wouldn’t have been a controversial statement. Everyone in the tech world knows that the Internet got its start in the 1960s, when a team of computing pioneers at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency designed and deployed ARPANET, the first computer network that used “packet switching”—a communications system that splits up data and sends it across multiple paths toward its destination, which is the basic design of today’s Internet. According to most accounts, researchers working on ARPANET created many of the Internet’s defining features, including TCP/IP, the protocol on which today’s network operates. In the 1980s, they strung together various government and university networks together using TCP/IP—thus creating a single worldwide network, the Internet.

Suddenly, though, the government’s role in the Internet’s creation is being cast into doubt. “It’s an urban legend that the government launched the Internet,” Gordon Crovitz, the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal,argued Monday in a widely linkedJournal op-ed. Instead, Crovitz believes that “full credit” for the Internet’s creation ought to go to Xerox, whose Silicon Valley research facility, Xerox PARC, created the Ethernet networking standard as well as the first graphical computer (famously the inspiration for Apple’s Mac). According to Crovitz, not only did the government not create the Internet, it slowed its arrival—that researchers were hassled by “bureaucrats” who stymied the network’s success.

“It’s important to understand the history of the Internet because it’s too often wrongly cited to justify big government,” Crovitz says. I’ll give him one thing: It is important to understand the history of the Internet. Too bad he doesn’t seem interested in doing so.

Crovitz’s entire yarn is almost hysterically false. He gets basic history wrong, he gets the Internet’s defining technologies wrong, and, most importantly, he misses the important interplay between public and private funds that has been necessary for all great modern technological advances.

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So as the New gTLD programme rolls on, we're finding out more and more about the New gTLD registries plans for these new domain name extensions. This is a great explanation of why dotAfrica has been applied for and the applicants plans for the TLD!

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How Mobile phones are changing the world.

How Cell Phones Are Dramatically Changing The World [Infographic] Simone Foxman, businessinsider.com

Tech/Media

Polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic ana­lysts alike have been awed by the pro­lif­er­a­tion of tech­nol­o­gy and social media to con­nect peo­ple and send ideas across bor­ders that never before been crossed.

The impor­tance of such…

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Hosting Solutions

We often get asked in the forum wether to used Shared hosting, VPS or Dedicated hosting.

The difference between the three is as follows:

Shared hosting : The cheapest of the three options and usually the best value. If you are running a basic site and you don't have thousands of users then this is for you. Even if you are running a few WordPress or Drupal sites, you are still best off with shared hosting. It represents great value for money! Shared hosting means you are allocated web space on a server that is shared by a number of other people. A single server may be hosting hundreds of sites, so performance can be somewhat lower than paying a lot more for a VPS or dedicated hosting.

Virtual Private Server : VPS hosting is when you are allocated part of a server, similarly to shared hosting, except now you have complete control of that area. You might even have a windows installation on your VPS which you can log in to and manage yourself. Normally brings better performance than shared hosting. Due to this higher level of access you can make your server more secure and make it easily accessible from wherever you are. If you are offering hosting to other people, you will certainly need a VPS or higher as you'll need to be in control of their files. Although hosting reseller programs are normally the best thing to go for if you are planning on offering hosting elsewhere. 

Dedicated Hosting : You only need to consider this option if you have huge amounts of traffic and need huge amount of web space. Dedicated servers are expensive. To get a good one you need to be earning some money from your site, otherwise the return on investment is minimal, you might be better off with a much cheaper, slightly less powerful VPS. However with a Dedicated Hosting server, you can do everything! Email hosting, provide hosting services to others, start your own hosting company, split it up into a number of VPS and host unlimited sites with total flexibility. There is also usually uptime guarantees provided by the company who offers the server. Great for a super busy site that would result in serious loss of revenue were it to go down! A great set of features to have no doubt, but they really do come at a cost!

I would say for 99.9% of the sites out there, shared hosting or a VPS will suffice. In probably 95% of cases shared hosting is enough, if you're only running a blog using a content management system, or a basic page for your business, don't spend more than you have to! Make sure you get a decent hosting package, with unlimited bandwidth if possible. You don't want to have to pay more when your site gets busier.

Come and share your thoughts over on the hosting forum if you need more questions answered! 

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Create a Website - It takes 2 to tango ... or create a website.

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Domain Reseller

Are you a domain reseller? Have you thought about becoming one?

There are so many reseller platforms out there that it can be very difficult to choose the one that's right for you.

Our personal favourite is Domainbox but there are plenty more out there.

We're discussing this in the domain reseller section over at Web Wise Forum. 

There is definitely good money to be made being a domain reseller. We have one member who started life coding html sites in his bedroom. Step by step he started to learn his craft and produces some amazing websites for clients. He needed a domain reseller platform that let his clients manage their own domains. With the help of our other members he managed to find the right one and has since reduced a substantial amount of cost from the design process by registering the names for the clients, in their names and charging them a pretty fee!

This kind of inclusion can take your web design offering from a basic site to a fully featured online presence! Make sure you throw in social media by the way!

If you want to learn more about how to become a domain name reseller, what it involves and where to get the best value, head over to Web Wise Forum now and get yourself signed up!

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SEO Tools | Web Wise Forum

Hope you have all been having fun on Web Wise Forum!

We've been building an SEO Tools forum in recent weeks and would love for you to check it out and know what you think.

There's list after list of the best SEO tools according to each of our users needs and opinions. Basically it's all the resources you're ever going to need to know what SEO tools to use on your latest project.

We've got a whole SEO Forum too!

Hope to see you all there! Don't forget to introduce yourself at Web Wise, the premier domain forum online!

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Web Hosting Forum

Don't know how many of you are yet signed up to the forum yet. However our Web Hosting forum is a great place to get advice on web hosting, from value to stability to tutorials. 

You can also identify special offers on web hosting, whether it's VPS or Shared Hosting you are after. We also talk about what to do once you've got that hosting. Lot's of advice on one click installers and content management systems.

As some of you might already know our forum is visited by a number of industry experts who will always aim to give you the best advice!

Hopefully you have signed up as an account is free and always will be!

See you on the boards over at Web Wise Forum

Thanks All!

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The ultimate web hosting forum online. Primarily a domain name forum but giving you the best advice on hosting too! 

Visit Web Wise Forum for all the best advice on domain names, web hosting, SEO and Social Media!

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IBM Research produces bacteria-killing “ninja polymers”

via gizmag:

Bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can not only cause potentially lethal infections, but they are also unaffected by commonly-available antibiotics. Even when it comes to bacteria that can be more easily controlled, we are still constantly being warned about the danger of them becoming antibiotic-resistant. Now, however, researchers have discovered a new antiobiotic-free method of killing bacteria including MRSA … and it’s based on semiconductor technology. […]

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Domain Name Sales

Hi Tumblrs.

Do you have a domain name lying around that you know you are never going to use but that you think someone might value?

Why not head over to Web Wise Forum and find out if you can turn a quick profit by selling a domain name on our forum. We discuss all aspects of the domain name industry in our forum. Buying and selling domain names is certainly a part of the industry. Some people make their living trading domain names. We understand most people aren't like that though and just want to sell a domain name for a reasonable price. 

To help you along the way we have developed a feedback system that lets trusted buyers and sellers be marked as such. This lets you know that you can go ahead with a domain name sale or purchase with this trusted user knowing it's secure. Please don't think that means if you have no feedback you won't be able to sell! Quite the opposite! Our members are happy to help you make your first sale.

Head over to Web Wise Forum now for the ultimate domain name forum online!

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Meet the apes - and other animals - that can memorise 10,000 pictures, use tools, recognise words, express empathy and put humans to shame at a touch-screen number game.