Web Design Ireland

posted by Robert on Nov 9

Accessing social networks like Facebook or MySpace while at work may not be possible as research from Barracuda Networks indicates that 50 percent of businesses using Barracuda Web Filters are blocking the sites.

Half Of Employers Block MySpace Or Facebook

Forty-four percent of companies using Barracuda filters block MySpace. 26 percent block Facebook and 19.3 percent block both sites.

In a separate survey of IT professionals conducted by Barracuda found that 53 percent of businesses restrict surfing with filtering systems and around 65 percent plan to implement surfing restrictions in 2008. Close to 23 percent growth from year to year.

Seventy percent of businesses said the reason they had Internet restrictions was due to spyware or virus prevention. Fifty-two percent cited employee productivity concerns. Other concerns were bandwidth (36%) and liability issues (28%).

“Spyware is still a major concern,” said Drako.  “Although the full implications of spyware are not always understood, many customers worry about spyware effects on productivity and security, and therefore want protection.”

While most companies restrict employee Web surfing only 21 percent actively monitor employee Internet activity. Six percent have time restrictions on employee use of the Internet and 3 percent supplement company policies with restrictions by department or employee.

“Businesses are increasingly applying content-control mechanisms to protect their networks and maintain maximum organization productivity,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks.”With the changing face of the Internet, companies need the flexibility to continuously monitor and customize Internet policy enforcement while providing their employees optimum use of the Web.”

Source: http://www.webpronews.com

posted by Robert on Oct 29

ike to upload video but haven’t or do not know how, here are the steps necessary to upload your video to YouTube.

Of course you will want to ensure that your video has been edited, is less than 10 minutes long, is smaller than 100 MB and is in an acceptable format (.AVI, .MOV, .WMV, and ,MPG etc.).

Steps for Uploading Video to YouTube

1. Create or Login to your YouTube Account. You can signup by going to: http://www.youtube.com/signup.

2. Click “Upload Videos” in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.

3. Enter as much information about your video as possible, including Title, Description, Tags, and Category. The more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!

4. Determine if you want your video set to Public or Private.

5. Simply click the “Upload a Video” button.

6. In the next window, click the “Browse” button to browse for the video file. Select the file you want to upload.

7. Click the “Upload Video” button.

There you have it, that’s it, seven easy steps to upload your video to YouTube.

Source: http://seo-space.blogspot.com

posted by Robert on Oct 16

Photo buffs and Picasa fans may have cause to celebrate - the Official Google Photos Blog has launched.

“We’ll be using this space to post feature updates, photography tips, and (of course) some of our favorite photo albums, all of which will keep you current with the latest developments from the Picasa team,” announced Jason Cook, a product marketing manager, in the first-ever post on the blog. Read the rest of this entry »

posted by Robert on Oct 16

Getty Images, known for its stock photos, has launched its new music licensing service called Soundtrack, which will focus on offering music tracks to broadcasters, filmmakers and advertisers. Read the rest of this entry »

posted by Robert on Oct 3

Adobe announced Monday the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, the maker of a Web-based, multiuser word processor called Buzzword. Adobe also spun out the beta of a new service called Share that allows users to share and work on documents together online, as well as publish them to wikis or Web pages. Read the rest of this entry »

posted by Robert on Sep 17

The Inquirer reports that Google may soon deploy slideshow presentation creation and display software which they’ll call “Presently”. This application was apparently developed out of code that Google got with their acquisition of Zenter and Tonic Systems earlier this year.

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posted by Robert on Sep 14

Ask.com’s AskCity, their business search product, has added the ability to share maps by embedding them in a website, just like Google Maps did 20 days ago*.

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posted by Robert on Sep 10

The company on Tuesday is expected to announce the release of a beta version of its Flash Player, code-named Moviestar, that adds support for H.264, the video compression portion of the MPEG 4 standard.

The updated Flash Player also will be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration in most PCs’ graphics cards and is optimized for dual-core processors, said Mark Randall, chief strategist for dynamic media at Adobe. It will support HE-AAC version 2, a more efficient audio compression standard that is also part of MPEG 4.

The new features will be made available in the fall as part of an update to Flash Player 9.

Support for the H.264 standard will lead to more Web video content being available in high definition, Randall said. He said Adobe chose to support the standard now because it is being adopted more by content producers and media distributors like cable companies.

Flash is a de facto standard for streaming video used by YouTube and other high-volume Web sites.

But Microsoft is challenging Flash’s dominance in Web video with Silverlight. Microsoft has signed on large video publishers to use Silverlight, including MLB.com.

Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video and another video compression standard based on Windows Media called VC-1. Microsoft has not announced plans to support H.264, but a representative said the company could add support based on customer feedback.

Source: http://www.webdesign.org

posted by Robert on Aug 22

Google is combining YouTube videos with Google News to offer users what it hopes will be greater perspective on news stories.

The company announced on its blog that visitors to Google News will see a “Video” prefix next to news stories. Clicking on these links will take them to a YouTube page where they can watch video about the subject.

Google is still testing the offering with news sources such as CBS, Reuters and local TV stations owned by Hearst.

“Today, viewing news videos or other content types on the Web can be a frustrating experience,” said Lucy Zhang, a member of Google News’ engineering team. “You often get videos that don’t play, sites that require different video player downloads, or have misleading descriptions of the content. That’s why we’re working with YouTube so you can easily view online videos without any downloads required and regardless of what browser you’re using.”

The offering is a sign that Google is looking for ways to get the most use out of YouTube’s vast video library. The service may also send a message to news providers that Google is ratcheting up efforts to become the Web’s main news stand.

Source: www.news.com.com

posted by Robert on Aug 22

Several readers blasted me for my blog post last week about the Skype outage. I assumed that many of the people using Skype’s messaging and voice over IP service didn’t rely on the service for their primary form of communication. But several people pointed out that many small businesses use Skype to communicate with clients, employees and partners.

These comments got me thinking about this segment of the market. And now I’m working on a story that will take a look at how small businesses use free communications services like Skype instead of products that they would have to pay for from Microsoft or Cisco Systems.

I’d love to get some perspective from business users who rely on Skype for day-to-day communications. Specifically, I’d like to know why these users have chosen a free service over one they’d have to pay for, and whether or not the recent outage would change their minds about this choice. On the flip side, I’d also like to hear from some small-business owners who decided to go with a unified communications solution from Microsoft, Cisco or any of the other competitors in that market.

Source: www.news.com.com