We all know the story by now: Whistle-blowing website gets a few big scoops, annoys a government or ten and gets itself cut off by the ‘neutrals’ that it relies on. Paypal, Visa and Mastercard have all pulled the plug on helping Wikileaks take donations, while late last week EveryDNS and Amazon put a spanner or two in the works by removing DNS and hosting services respectively.
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Wikileaks: The start of a digital skirmish
Amazon Route 53
Amazon have just announced the launch of their ‘Route 53′ DNS service. Priced at $0.50 per million queries for the first billion and $0.25 thereafter it’s the first step in creating a cost effective DNS lookup service that will eventually integrate with the rest of their offerings. Their aim is to offer a service that is scalable (as with the rest of their cloud services) and, just as importantly, fast. By automatically routing traffic to a location near to the end user look-up speeds should be much faster, meaning a better experience.
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301 redirects in .htaccess – redirect http to www
Search engines think of http://yoursite.com and http://www.yoursite.com as completely different domains, which means that you split the potential value of your website content by keeping them separate. Fortunately there’s an easy fix which involves creating what is called a 301 redirect.
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WordPress Maintenance Mode – Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.
A very quick note on the WordPress maintenance mode ‘feature’ that many people seem to be having trouble with.
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Zynga about to declare war on Facebook?
According to Tech Crunch, Zynga are gearing up to effectively declare war on Facebook. My first thoughts on reading this were ‘talk about cutting your nose off’, but after a day or so to mull things over I think this could be very, very interesting.
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After Tomorrow’s Web
What a great weekend – the most important happening being our visit to Buckingham Palace. Second to that, stopping in at the Tomorrows Web Conference to see what was going on and partake in the aftershow drinks was the perfect way to spend Saturday evening. Although we felt a little old (the conference was aimed at teens) it’s amazing how switched on and clued up on their business everyone is.
The most impressive was probably James Proud (@jamesproud on Twitter) who is about to launch giglocator.com. He won the startup of the day award and rightly so – it has potential to be a great service and one which should be hugely profitable and popular… I just hope it gets off the ground quickly and without too much tech pain.
Other than that, it’s been business as usual. Pet Pupz has its new code which means we can move onto the new layout and extra functionlity. At the same time we’re still working on the two massive projects that were started a couple of months ago… they’re taking time but so far things are looking good – they really have potential to take social gaming to a whole new level!
Hidden Pixel to sponsor the Tomorrows Web Conference
The Tomorrows Web Conference is a one-day gathering in Central London to discuss and learn about the future of the Internet and Technology industry. The conference is the first of its kind in the UK, and with over 9 hours worth of fantastic talks, panels and pitches.
Although Tomorrows Web is primarily aimed towards Teenagers in Technology, those who wish to be on the cutting edge of the industry, meet and chat with the very people who will be building the web in 10 years time, are more than welcome to attend.
At Hidden Pixel we firmly believe in supporting those who are up and coming in the world of technology, both in the UK and abroad. So, take a look at the web site -here.