Vimeo have just launched Vimeo Pro. Vimeo Pro accounts claim to be the easiest and most affordable professional video hosting solutions aimed at the UK’s ever-increasing entrepreneurs and will be available today at www.vimeopro.com.
Vimeo Pro costs $199 US per year and you get 50GB of video hosting and 250,000 plays.
“Until now, quality video hosting has been expensive, confusing, and extremely difficult for a small business owner to understand. Small businesses have fallen between the cracks of free video services and massive enterprise video solutions,” said Dae Mellencamp, Vimeo’s General Manager. “Vimeo PRO resolves the contradiction that best-of-breed video quality and hosting can also be easy and affordable.”
CSS Crush is an awesome new PHP based CSS Pre-processor. Basically CSS Crush minimizes many of the hacks and workarounds used in CSS development. CSS Crush means there is no need to use any browser specific properties, rules, functions, etc.
And, there is support for minification and caching for serving them as fast as possible.
Diglo is a new file sharing social network that is getting a huge amount of buzz at the moment. Diglo provides users with a place to share unlimited files, have unlimited storage and even keep anonymity. Diglo is your perfect match between a social network and a file hosting and media search engine.
It will be interesting to see if Diglo can become a strong service if they will just get taken down by Hollywood, Major record labels, etc.
Google has announced that they have tripled the speed of their +1 button. The Google +1 button is their answer to the Facebook Like button. The aim of the +1 button is that readers can show which content they like across the web. With more +1′s improving the search ranking of that content.
“We’ve begun to roll out out a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster on your site,” software engineer David Byttow said.
“No action is required on your part, so just sit back, relax, and watch as the button loads more quickly than before.”
This is great news, because the +1 button was loading very slowly compared to other social media buttons, so about time Google sorted it out!
It has been reported that uTorrent will soon be releasing a paid version of their service. At the moment uTorrent has over 100 million active users worldwide and this is going to really shake up the market.
The paid version will offer the ability to convert videos and transfer files to external devices such. Thus, you will be able to move videos downloaded via uTorrent onto your iPhone, PS3, iPad, Apple TV, etc.
uTorrent Plus is the name of the product and it is expected to launch later this year in an invite only beta.
Hosting can be a complicated issue. There are a plethora of different hosting platforms, and within these platforms even more sub-divisions. Once you manage to decide on the correct hosting solution for your needs, you then have the drama of selecting one hosting company from an army of able competitors. What you need is some friendly, impartial advice from people in the same boat. A place where fellow webmasters can hang out and discuss what’s happening in hosting. What you need is webhostingtalk.com.
What Is Webhostingtalk.com?
Webhostingtalk.com is a hosting-based community board that attracts both average website owners and industry experts. It is a site that provides a soap box for people to ask for hosting help, and for others to provide answers to questions posed. There are no hidden agendas because the site is unaffiliated.
It may be true that some members may favor different hosting solutions, and some may be directly associated with certain hosting services, but if you ask a question you will receive a wealth of impartial, reliable advice.
You can view most forums without registering, but to post you will need to sign up. This is a simple, unobtrusive process that involves no more than providing a username, password, and date of birth.
What’s Being Discussed?
The web hosting main forums (at time of writing) include the following categories:
Web Hosting (general)
Dedicated Servers
Colocation and Data Centers
Cloud Hosting
Speciality Hosting and Markets
VPS Hosting
Reseller Hosting
Managed Hosting and Services
Hosting Security and Technology
Programming Discussion
Hosting Software and Control Panels
Running a Web Hosting Business
Ecommerce Hosting and Discussion
Domain Names
Web Design and Content
SEO/SEM Discussions
As you can see, webhostingtalk.com covers all the hosting bases and then diversifies into other aspects of website design, implementation, and management. It is a multi-faceted community of highly active users. Posts are regular and topically relevant. Search for related subjects and you won’t be left with a series of results from 2008, this is a current forum with committed participants.
Using Webhostingtalk.com to Find Truthful Hosting Reviews
Webhostingtalk.com makes an excellent research tool for locating a quality web host service. There are a multitude of hosting reviews, including popular large-scale providers and smaller companies, to select from. The site moderators ensure that all reviewer’s domain Whois data is validated, so no fake reviews are posted.
As a tip, it is best to use a Google operator-based search rather than rely on the actual webhostingtalk.com search facility. So to search for a specific host review on the site you would type the following into your Google search box:
site:webhostingtalk.com webhost review
(Note: Replace webhost with the name of the actual host you are searching for)
Another tip would be to make use of Google’s date range feature when searching for larger hosting companies, such as Hostgator. There will be hundreds of reviews for a company like Hostgator, so search for results from the past year, or use the custom date range feature and input your own date fields. Like this:
Remember to search through the entire search results, not just the top results. Your ideal solution may be hidden on the second page. The same goes for the actual threads. As more people reply and post, the answer you’re looking for may appear a few days after the original question/query was posted. So read the entire thread, not just the first few replies.
One final tip when it comes to reading hosting reviews on webhostingtalk.com. You can get some insight into a posters reputation and reliability by looking at the total number of posts they have amassed and the quality of said posts. You will soon develop your own trusted circle of favorite posters.
Remember It’s Not Just About Hosting Reviews…
Webhostingtalk.com provides in-depth general hosting advice. So if you have a question about Cloud hosting or server security, for example, you can find numerous posts on these subjects.
Webhostingtalk.com provides webmasters, interested in hosting solutions and other aspects of website management, with a community-focused platform to ask questions, research topical subjects, and offer helpful, impartial advice. Why not go see what all the fuss is about?
Webhostingtalk.com – Your one stop place for hosting!
This article is written by Borko Simms who is always glad to help fellow webmasters with choosing reliable web hosting services.
HTML5 is going to revolutionize the web, but not just yet. W3C have announced that the full release date for HTML5 will be expected by 2014, so you’ve got a few more years to have an experiment if you haven’t done so already. To give you an idea of what you’re missing out on and to show the potential that HTML5 has for advanced, compliant and accessible web design, here are 5 exceptional examples of HTML5 website. Say goodbye to Flash….
1 | Ben The Bodyguard
Ben the Bodyguard is a slick scrolling website that features a suave Frenchman, reminiscent of Jean Reno, hell-bent on keeping the data on your iPhone secure. As you scroll vertically down the page, Ben walks through a rather rough neighborhood; he discusses the potential pitfalls of losing your phone. Featuring some slick animation and a fancy jQuery box activated by clicking on neon rooftop signs, the site does an excellent job at promoting Nerd Communications iPhone Security App.
Simon Foster puts a modern spin on the infographic by representing what’s left of his record collection as an HTML5 and CSS 3 infographic. For the Record is by no means as fancy as Ben the Bodyguard, but is does show very well how HTML5 and CSS3 can be used hand-in-hand to replaces images with code. Simple code with a slick look, that’s what we like!
The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive music video website for the Arcade Fire’s song ‘We Used To Wait’ and it is insane. The site first asks you to type in the name of the town you grew up in. The site then starts to play the music video in a number of different pop-up windows pulling in elements from Google Earth and utilizing HTML5 to incorporate visuals over the top of the images supplied by Google Earth. You can also manipulate the direction of the birds flying around on the homepage with your mouse, which is a nice touch.
For the gamers among us, Agent 008 Ball offers the user the ability to play a rather precise game of billiards through their browser. Created by Pixel Labs, the site utilizes the canvas element, which can be used to render graphs, game graphics, and other visual element in real time. Developed alongside Microsoft, Agent 008 Ball was created to show off the advanced features in the new IE9 browser.
20 things I learned is an interactive book created by the Google Chrome team to help explain to users how the web works. The site uses HTML5 effectively to display the book like as an interactive eBook with the user having the ability to scroll through the pages by clicking and dragging their mouse from one page to the next. For best results, view this site in Google Chrome.
Alex is a web developer and SEO working across a number of different clients. He loves swimming in Above ground pools and treating them with swimming pool chemicals. You can find him on Twitter @harvey1dash8.
Wibiya has just been acquired by Conduit. Conduit is the worlds biggest network or web and mobile publishers all around creating toolbars. Wibiya has been developing a very popular toolbar product for some time now, so it was only a matter of time before they were acquired by conduit.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and neither have their plans on both products for the future.
If I was looking to use the Wibiya toolbar I wouldnt start using it now as it could get merged into conduit at any time.
I have been using Google Reader since launch, but there is a new kid on the block: Tiny Tiny RSS. Tiny Tiny RSS is a great new open source web based RSS feed reader that has a great user experience.
Tiny Tiny RSS is built upon PHP and Mysql, but the actual user interface is completely Ajax.
A brilliant feature is that Tiny Tiny RSS can not only grab RSS feeds, but it can merge them and then republish an independent RSS feed. This is a great way to group together certain topics.
Google has 
