http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com A blog tracking current topics and trends in the IT business community and Internet culture as a whole. en-us http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com/?PostID=210 January 24, 2008 - Web hosting is an industry flush with "green" initiatives and "carbon-neutral" programs. It seems there are environmentally friendly hosts springing up left and right, each and every day. And yet, without a definition for what "green" or "carbon neut... http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com/?PostID=208 January 19, 2008 - Read that title again. Network Solutions preregisters searched domains. If you visit NetworkSolutions.com to search for and find an available domain, Network Solutions will pre-register it, on your behalf, for a full year -- and then force you to pay... http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com/?PostID=207 January 09, 2008 - The Story Behind Overselling Because web hosting is a highly technical service, potential customers in need of web hosting may not know what to look for in a good provider, and so fall back on the basic economic principle of value for their money, or... http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com/?PostID=206 January 09, 2008 - Last week, the Associated Press reported that Comcast Corp. is interfering with certain types of data transfers on their network.   In an article entitled "Comcast blocks some Internet traffic",  Peter Svensson reported Friday the AP had co... http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com/?PostID=205 January 09, 2008 - We recently saw this question posted to a web hosting forum:   "What hosting companies we should avoid?"   The user is new to the industry and was trying to work up a basic list of the types of companies that you would -- and would not -- w... http://canvasdreams.nwgrapevine.com/?PostID=203 September 13, 2007 - In today's global economy, more companies than ever before are choosing to have a web site. While some companies have IT and design staff to assist in this task, many smaller companies defer the job to an outside design company or independent webmast...