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Volume 3.9 Issue 3
We at ArisHost share in the grief the country and the rest of the world is experiencing
at this moment. The terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania were condemnable
acts that wasted innocent lives. Our condolences to the victims' families. And our sincere hope
AH! News
NEW POWERED-UP SERVICE PACKAGES
AH! Trends
The Crossover Heat
Link Up!
www.entrepreneur.com
Our Site!
The ArisHost site of the week: www.thenortheasttheatre.org
AH! Relief
The times... they are a changin'. Time to take a break!
Archive
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AH! News
NEW POWERED-UP SERVICE PACKAGES
ArisHost has recently launched its Add-on powered-up service packages. According to one of
its executives, "We haven't stopped improving ourselves. Although I think ArisHost is already a
first-rate domain registration company, we continue to strive to offer more, to answer the needs
of our clients. That's where we have advantage… we have a pulse on what the market needs and we
give it to them."
And so they did-ArisHost gave their clients exactly what they wanted: DNS service, extra
POP accounts, extra FTP account, extra gigabytes of bandwidth and extra web space. And
what's so great about this is that they offer these additional services at such low prices!
Imagine DNS service, extra 5 POP accounts, and extra 5 FTP accounts at only $ 12 each per
year. DNS service lets users redirect specific parts of their domain to other Internet
addresses. POP and FTP accounts give clients leeway in assigning users email access and
file transfer rights to their ArisHost accounts. The gigabytes of network bandwidth are
especially useful to websites that experience heavy traffic, and ArisHost is offering
this for only $ 6 a month per extra gigabyte. The extra 50 MB web space on the other
hand means extra storage space, for accounts with increasing emails, graphic files, etc.
This web space package costs only $ 2 a month.
"This is just the start. Team ArisHost is currently working on fortified security features,
among other extras. Just watch out for them!" This comes straight from ArisHost-and it's
definitely something to look forward to!
AH! Trends
The Crossover Heat
The latest events in the country have brought to fore the convergence of technology and
traditional media. Online crossovers of news institutions like CNN, NBC and ABC News have
made it easier to be abreast with developments, and their reach allows a circulation that's
both global and interactive. Such convergence is indicative of an age when media blur into
multi-faceted operations. The Internet has opened up a broader market, and its technologies
have allowed the infiltration of the highly varied media.
In particular, broadband technology has allowed television shows to broadcast over the net.
This does not only pertain to Microsoft's Web TV, which is dissimilar such that it requires
a $ 300 set-top receiving box and $ 20 monthly subscription. Organizations, such as Pseudo
Programs, Real Broadcast Network and CNN Interactive, have been online, delivering video clips
of news reports and shows for users to download and view from their computers. Landmark
broadcasts include Real Broadcast Network's December 1998 bombing of Iraq and Clinton impeachment,
Netcast's 1998 live birth that reeled in 1.4 million online viewers, Broadcast.com's 1.5 million
viewers-strong Victoria's Secret fashion show, and the recent coverage of the terrorist attacks
in several US states by CNN.com, MSNBC.com and ABC.com. The power and reach of the Internet, as
multiplied by the tri-media, is undeniable.
Content that has been the defining factor in online success. A website is assured of regular
or/and increasing visitors because of its content, which eventually translates to advertisers
and Internet content syndication. Online advertisement has somewhat leveled down over the years,
but syndication is on an upsurge. Some content of sites like NBC, Lycos and Excite have been
syndicated to other websites or offline partners. Jupiter Communications estimates that in 2000
alone, close to $ 250 million were spent on online content licensing. This is predicted to grow
to $ 1.5 Billion by 2004. The growth in broadband-connected web users supports this developments,
which from 2000's 5 million US household, is expected to increase to 29 million by 2005.
In fact, content has made it possible for the Internet to crossover to television. Apart from
syndication to television partners, as in the cases of AtomFilms (Exposure at the SciFi Channel)
and Mondo Media (Thugs on Film over at BBC), the Internet has been the testing ground for
television programs. It's an apparent scramble to grab the attention of the different market
segments-in particular, the young adult segment which is estimated to grow up to 11 million in
online users by 2002. Cases in point: WhirlGirl, an initially web-based program about a
superheroine out to save the world, has become a television series; as well as NakedNews.com's
crossover to cable. Television remains up in the media pedestal, with Americans spending an
average on 1,565 hours per person each year in front of it. Crossovers from the Internet, with
their original content and loyal web fan-base, will very easily cut into this market and encourage
more cross-media mergers and cooperation.
References:
www.mayfieldpub.com
Introduction to Mass Communication 2001 Update
Media Literacy and Culture
"Converging Video and the Internet"
April 1999
Providers of Web Content Finding Value in NATPE
By Laurie Freeman
Electronic Media
Jan. 8, 2001
www.kidscreen.com
TeenScreen special report
Teen cyberseries gear up for TV crossover
by Paula Aquilina
KidScreen Magazine, April 1, 1999
www.csmonitor.com
World Wrestling Federation or world events?
Jay Lawrence
January 31, 2000
Link Up!
http://www.entrepreneur.com/
Entrepreneur.com is a full-packed e-zine especially for the business and marketing newbie.
It focuses on small- to medium-scale businesses, like dotcoms and home-based enterprises.
The site surprisingly has tons of e-biz advice and info-rich articles. They have everything
from the need-to-knows of legally establishing home-based businesses, start-up checklists,
investing tips and mistakes, to website management advice for non-technology businesses, among
other very varied business articles. This variety, although great for an online magazine,
actually compounds a frequent complaint about entrepreneur.com-that is, it's easy to get lost
inside their website. We tried to follow several links and would often not know where we were
or how to get back. Lest we are given a map or have to keep on hitting the 'Back' button, the
site should implement a less-entangling navigation system. Good thing the site has an internal
search engine that provides links to its present and past articles.
Our Site!
The ArisHost site of the week:
www.thenortheasttheatre.org
Thenortheasttheatre.org is the perfect example of technology helping the arts. The online site
of this Keystone College-based theatre organization has facilitated a reaching out to its
communities, with the website's dedicated pages. Visitors are quickly informed about the
organization's current season (complete with play synopses), ticket sales, creative staff,
and even directions going to its home theatre (yes, complete with maps). It's a wonderful
D-I-Y website that inadvertently sparks feelings of hope for good ol' theatre.
AH! Relief
The times they are a changin'. Time to take a break!
The Top 10 Signs You're Living in the 21st Century
- You try to enter your password on the microwave.
- You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
- You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk next to you.
- Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
- You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
- Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
- Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
- As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends"
- You got this list from a friend that never talks to you anymore, except to send you jokes from the net.
Finally… some points to ponder:
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't
remember where they leave things. (Anonymous)
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AH - Q
How do I get the word out about my website? Are having meta tags within my pages' header enough?
--- Kenneth J.
Vernon, TX
According to Dr. A:
Theoretically KJ, it's good enough just to have meta tags within your website's header. Search
engines have web crawlers that literally crawl through the Internet to seek out these tags and include
their information into the search engine. Problem is this takes a long, long time. You have an option to
use a software that auto-submits to search engines, and this method is much faster-the problem with this,
on the other hand, is that some search engines have programs that reject spammed submissions. So if you
use an auto-submitter, anti-spam search engines will most likely reject your website's information. The
best and most sure solution is to submit manually to each search engine. A submission to one search engine
will, at the most, take 5 minutes.
AH- Tips
Want to make sure your site turns up and is ranked high when people do
searches on a particular topic? Remember this: more doorways and keywords equal better search results.
That is, if you submit several doorway pages and with a lot of keywords, you'd most likely be listed
amongst the top ten for that particular topic.
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