Google Places (99 luft balloons) and Google Tags for small businesses.
Have you ever Googled a location and noticed all those cool little red balloons on the map with businesses attached to them? Well now, like a starry-eyed child at the google circus, you can have your own balloon – only this time, no clowns! If you have a small business, restaurant, cafe, bike shop, book shop, any shop, non profit etc.. head to http://www.google.com/places  and follow the instructions there.
While you’re at it, Google has a new offering called tags …

Middle of the Sea – Ambient Video – Stretched 800% from stacy bias on Vimeo.
This morning on Facebook a few folks had posted a hilarious link from Gawker.Com on how to make Justin Bieber actually sound good by slowing down one of his songs by 800%. Inspired by how lovely you can make something that’s utterly vapid by simply stretching it out to its essence, I researched some Macintosh sound-stretching software (here’s the PC version) and set to work stretching one of my own compositions.
To my surprise, it turned …

Before I dive into the list I want to cover some web analytic history, because I’m nerdy like that. In the neolithic era of the web (see: geocities) we had these nifty little hit counters. Remember those? They were rad! You could track people “hitting your site” which was pretty darn cool, and if you were bored on a tuesday afternoon you could inflate the numbers yourself by shotgunning a Jolt Cola and pounding the refresh button like a deranged monkey. Also they usually sparkled. But that’s beside the point.
From …

In simplest terms, bandwidth is the amount of data that can pass between your website and everyone on the Internet who wishes to see it.
Bandwidth is measured in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes.  What creates that measurement is both the number of requests (the number of people who request to access your site) and the size (number of bytes) of the files they request.
Each website is made of digital files. Each character of text and its containing file, each image, video and mp3, has a …

Hello, Taprootians!
In our thinking about how to celebrate Earth Day this year, we knew we wanted to offer incentives to folks who aren’t on green web hosts to move over and further green their projects/organizations. So we made an offer of a 30% discount for new clients today (enter: earthday2010 at sign-up if you’re interested.)
That didn’t feel balanced, however, as it didn’t honor the folks who have already taken action. In reward and thanks for those of you who have already chosen to green your websites, we’ve made a …