Zimbra

Zimbra is a groupware email server and web client that connects people and information with unified collaboration software which includes email, calendaring, file sharing, activity streams, social communities and more.   Zimbra is used by thousands of companies, service providers and government agencies including well known businesses like Comcast, Dell, Investec, Red Hat, Mozilla, H&R … Continue reading Zimbra

Litespeed

LiteSpeed is an information technology company, founded in 2002, that produces web server software that is specifically designed for high-traffic servers, like the ones for Internet service providers and corporate data centers.   LiteSpeed Web Server is the company’s main product. It is a lightweight proprietary web server, which is able to read Apache configurations … Continue reading Litespeed

BuddyPress

BuddyPress is an open source social networking software package owned by the web company Automattic since 2008. It is a plugin that can be installed on a WordPress site to transform the site into a social network platform. BuddyPress is designed to allow schools, companies, sports teams or any other niche community to start their … Continue reading BuddyPress

Wowza

The Wowza Media Server is gradually becoming the main platform for video streaming, and since online video streaming is currently one of the most popular platforms available. With the shrewdness and experience of co-founder and CEO, David Stubenvoll, Wowza is positioned for greatness.   Wowza is the fifth new business Stubenvoll has developed, “If you’re … Continue reading Wowza

Drupal

Drupal’s beginnings started out the same as some of the other well known and successful websites of today. It started as a seemingly insignificant idea with meager beginnings. In a small apartment during college that Dries Buytaert created what would become one of the most popular open source content management frameworks of today. It was … Continue reading Drupal

vShare

A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video content to share or place on a website. Users generally will upload through the hosting service’s website, mobile or desktop applications or APIs. The type of video content uploaded can be anything from short video clips through full length movies. The video host will then store the … Continue reading vShare

Boonex

Boonex is a private company that has focused solely on social networking software since 2001. The company’s main product is BoonEx Dolphin which is used by over 150,000 webmasters around the world and can boast that it is used in all languages, niches and localities. Dolphin, thought of as the world’s best community management systems, … Continue reading Boonex

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS). Currently WordPress is the most popular blogging system, which is being used on more than 60 million websites, including 19% of the current top 10 million websites.   Founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little launched WordPress on May 27, 2003 as … Continue reading WordPress

The Importance of Site Speed and Google Rankings

Since 2010, Google has used page load times as a factor in its search ranking algorithms. Google’s reasoning behind this thought is that faster loading pages should be ranked higher because they provide a better experience for users. In their own words, they stated that, “Faster sites create happy users. Like us, our users place … Continue reading The Importance of Site Speed and Google Rankings

Highlights from the MOZ.com 2013 Ranking Factors

Moz is a software as a Service (SaaS) company located in Seattle, Washington that sells inbound marketing and marketing analytics software subscriptions. Founded by Gillian Muessig and Rand Fishkin in 2004 as a consulting firm, Moz then switched to software development in 2008.   Every two years, Moz runs a survey that collects the opinions … Continue reading Highlights from the MOZ.com 2013 Ranking Factors