How’s your speed? Here’s a good resource for checking.

Here’s some benchmarks. How did you measure up?

384.0 – 768.0 Kbps - DSL/Cable
1500.0 Kbps – Cable/DSL
1544.0 Kbps – Full T1
3000.0 Kbps – High Speed T3

We configure and setup a lot of websites and email solutions for our clients. Because of spam, viruses and client’s with limited IT resources, we’ve nearly gone exclusively to recommending Google’s Gmail service for email. Now that doesn’t mean our client’s give up their company’s URL for a Gmail address, but with Gmail you can keep your company URL and only you will know that you’re using Gmail.

Gmail’s features are many, but the one that stands out is the spam is completely eliminated. Gmail also has powerful smartphone applications and integrates well with all email clients. With Gmail, you can also check, write and manage your emails in any web browser. It’s so good, that I now only use my web browser for email.

This article walks you through the process of setting up Gmail for your business.

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Ever wonder about the popularity of a website, who’s going to that website or what keywords they’re targeting for search? Well there’s a way to get that information and more for free.

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The newest threat to traditional media companies: Online aggregators who profit from their content and lure their audiences away. Here’s how to beat them at their own game

Traditional media companies face fast-growing challenges from small, often one person online content aggregators, who can channel content from hundreds of sources and draw ever-increasing audiences away. By implementing an online aggregation strategy themselves, traditional media companies can use their credibility and resources to reinforce their online presence—and add to their own growth. This executive brief presents an overview of content aggregation practices and provides practical information for implementation. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Tools and techniques to scour the Web for content and news, track competitors, and monitor social buzz, industry blogs and company Websites.

This guide gives content and Web editors a strategic advantage with:

• tools and techniques for targeting a specific niche
• ways to efficiently identify breaking stories
• secrets for discovering essential information before competitors do
• methods for finding interesting and compelling content that can be reported on, featured or aggregated on their Websites [Read the rest of this entry...]