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Want to know what your visitors are thinking? iPerceptions has launched a free version of their MarketMotive service to help site owners with that very task. Called 4Q, it asks randomly selected visitors who opt in four fundamental questions:

Why did you come here?
Did you accomplish what you hoped?
Why or why not?
What [...]

Last week, we wrote that the registrars were under increased pressure. Their higher-margin businesses, such as turnkey hosting, were threatened by third-party hosting, simplifiers like Google, and the trend towards distributed SaaS applications. The pressure went up a notch with Google’s relaunch of Jotspot, now running on the Google computer, as Google Sites.  What’s most [...]

The promise of virtual machines is that operators don’t need to worry about where their servers are. You can have one big server running on five physical computers, or a hundred tiny servers running on one physical machine. This makes it easy to adjust capacity; it also means creating a new server is as simple [...]

Defensio recently introduced support for OpenID, which allows the blog spam blocker to track posters’ behavior. In theory, knowing someone’s commenting behavior can make spam blocking more effective. Will it, in reality, help Defensio replace Askimet?

Registrars face hard times. Regulatory changes, price increases and free hosting offerings from Google mean the future looks rough.

Folks over at SANS have warned of a recent antivirus update that blocks access to servers and generates lots of false positives. One system administrator at a large financial services firm told us, on condition of anonymity, that the new Trend Micro pattern file took down 300 systems within his organization.
“A pattern file caused slower [...]