http://techbusiness.com.au KEYWORDS: technology - business - research - online surveys - Australia Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:13:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last September, there was this commotion at Twitterland brought about by changes in Twitter's Terms of Service (TOS). As we saw it, the issue mainly revolved around ownership of users' tweets. One criticism hurled at Twitter was something like: If Twitter can do what they want with 'our' tweets, including reproduction for ... http://techbusiness.com.au/who-owns-your-twitter-updates/ Here are some pointers we have collected to help you decide when registering a new domain name or buying an existing one. 1. The name passes the so-called “radio test.” By this is meant that the domain name can be understood if said on the radio. Try to avoid domain names ... http://techbusiness.com.au/how-to-choose-a-domain-name/ According to the 2008-09 Multipurpose Household Survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 72% of Australian households had home internet access and 78% of households had access to a computer. The ABS survey also reported that between 1998 to 2008-09, household access to the internet at home has ... http://techbusiness.com.au/internet-access-of-australian-households/ In an earlier post, How to customize your blog with widgets, leanpearl asked: “How do I put text widget in my header? I wanna use it for social networking sites’ icons.” I thought I use my response to that question as a separate post so it wouldn’t get lost as ... http://techbusiness.com.au/how-to-put-a-text-widget-in-your-blogs-header-2/ When a WP blog shows off on its sidebar the following: Blog Stats • 3,000 visits or worse, Blog Stats • 3,000 hits without any additional information, I start asking: “What exactly does that mean?” If a blog stats are presented in this fashion, the numbers look like a block of meaningless information. Blog Stats ... http://techbusiness.com.au/how-to-correctly-show-off-your-wp-blog-stats/ By way of background, below entry was meant to be posted at my WordPress.com blogsite to conclude my seven weeks of blogging there. Instead, I decided to post it to this site. Hopefully, this will explain why most of my posts and articles in this site refer to WordPress.com. I ... http://techbusiness.com.au/4-reasons-why-i-prefer-a-self-hosted-wordpress-blog/ I mentioned in my earlier PollDaddy post, I am not a great fan of polls, but here is an opportunity to have another demo of a poll created using PollDaddy. Someone asked me if a poll created in my WP blog can be displayed outside WordPress.com. Yes, you can. I don’t think ... http://techbusiness.com.au/a-polldaddy-poll-outside-your-wp-blog/ Our post two weeks ago on Publicize: Twitter is about automating the process of sending an update to a Twitter account each time a new post is published in your blog. But what if others want to tweet and retweet your posts? One simple solution: Place a Twitter sharing code at the ... http://techbusiness.com.au/a-simple-solution-to-tweet-and-retweet-your-wp-posts/ Following a tip in Comments to a WP’s support page on how to embed a Vimeo video, here’s a demo: Click here to view the embedded video.] The above video was embedded using this shortcode (no space after [ and before ] ): [ vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/7243598 ] How to resize The above video can be ... http://techbusiness.com.au/how-to-embed-a-vimeo-video/ I didn’t realize that embedding a video in a WordPress.com-hosted blog is so easy until I tried it. I guess my initial impression of not being able to install any plugin in my WP-hosted blog was mentally blocking me from even trying it. In my company’s self-hosted WP sites, we have ... http://techbusiness.com.au/how-to-embed-a-video-in-your-wordpress-com-hosted-blog/