Archive for January 26th, 2008

  • Another Alternative To WordPress For Local Business Sites

    I’ve been blogging about using WordPress for local business site building. This may be a possible option for do-it-yourselfers: Tank.
    While your website is “in development” it’s free and it’s hosted at a subdomain of withtank.com.
    Once you stat talking your own domain, that’s when hosting fees kick in.  The price is in the South African “Rand” [...]

  • Google To Combat Domain Name Loophole

    You can read this article here…
    Basically, it’s a form of “cyber squatting” but not with trademarked names. It’s basically a form of online market testing. Google has announced they will try to crack down on the practice and not pay for ad clicks generated by people with a demonstrable history of “domain tasting.”
    Name tasting exploits [...]

  • Canadian Telecommutes To Work For Conneticut Firm

    Whenever I drive down to Florida or the beach, I tend to see lots of Canadian license plates. I guess this is one I won’t be seeing, unless she’s on vacation of course.
    From The Sault Star
    Sheila Hatherley makes it into her Connecticut office two or three times a year tops.
    The rest of the time, she’s [...]

  • Out-of-office positions give RuralEx employees more flexibility

    RuralEx is a new telecommunications service provider based in Saskatoon Canada.
    As you can read in this article about RuralEx the company’s purpose, in part, is to provide home based call center jobs in this rural section of Canada. Here’s how the owner describes what’s going on:
    Weber is planning to tap into a somewhat forgotten workforce [...]