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	<description>John McKown: President of Delaware.Net, Inc.</description>
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		<title>Twitter and Facebook API Upgrades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We updated our Facebook and Twitter APIs today to take advantage of the OAuth method where you can authorize our CMS-Logic system to post to those sites. Works pretty well, should have it all rolled out tomorrow.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/twitter-and-facebook-api-upgrades/</link>
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		<title>Google Changes Search Algorithm &#8211; You&#8217;ve Been Warned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your search engine ranking for your website is about to change &#8211; again.  And this time, most business owners are going to get a piece of bad news that I have been warning about for a long time now.  This Wednesday, Google launched a new search algorithm, called Caffeine, and they masked this by simultaneously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/google-changes-search-algorithm-youve-been-warned/</link>
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		<title>Ignite Dover Coming to Schwartz Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are hosting Central Delaware&#8217;s larges social networking event next month at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Dover on July 14th. Admission is free but you have to register online ahead of time. There will be free food, beer, and awesome Ignite presentations by 10 local movers and shakers in IT, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/ignite-dover-coming-to-schwartz-center/</link>
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		<title>GoDaddy Suffering MAJOR Hacks This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GoDaddy has been suffering MAJOR WordPress hacks this week, and some were even today.  This is happening on other sites that are running on PHP that aren&#8217;t running WordPress too. Here are some news posts about the hacks: http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/second-round-of-godaddy-sites-hacked.html Note all the GoDaddy WordPress hack news here: http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/ SlashDot http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/26/1527215/Massive-Number-of-GoDaddy-WordPress-Blogs-Hacked?art_pos=1 My thoughts after the jump. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/godaddy-suffering-major-hacks-this-week/</link>
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		<title>Google Maps Builder added to CMS Logic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just launched our new Google Maps builder in our CMS-Logic product.  This allows our customers to build their own Google Maps in their websites, and add pushpins to the map automatically.  We added a search to the map builder, so that you can build a searchable map for your website in minutes.   A great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/google-maps-builder-added-to-cms-logic/</link>
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		<title>My Ingite Sussex Presenation on Social Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great time presenting at the Ignite Sussex event at Dogfish Head Brew and Eats in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.   If you have never heard of Ignite, it is a new type of networking event where local artists, professionals, and technology-related folks give short, 5-minute presentations.  Giving one of these presentations is tough &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/my-ingite-sussex-presenation-on-social-networking/</link>
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		<title>Please, Please, Please stop using Internet Explorer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the web design world, web design professionals HATE HATE HATE Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer web browser. Its the one topic that even feuding web designers agree on. Typically, our customers look at us funny when we suggest that they stop using Internet Explorer. It feels to me as though the customers think we are being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/please-please-please-stop-using-internet-explorer/</link>
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		<title>Delaware.Net Office Remodel, and Our Cool New Desks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I became inspired to improve our office environment. My goals included: Open up the space &#8211; we knocked down three walls in the office, combining the tech and design areas. Bring in more natural light &#8211; knocking down the walls allowed more light in from the perimeter offices. Get rid of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/delaware-net-office-remodel-and-our-cool-new-desks/</link>
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		<title>iPhone coming to Verizon in June?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This website says that Verizon is currently testing a 4G version of the iPhone with 4G, multitasking, videochat, and a removable battery. http://hubpages.com/hub/The-NEW-iPhone-4G-Coming-2010]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/iphone-coming-to-verizon-in-june/</link>
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		<title>How to accept credit card payments in your website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive questions just about every day from prospects and existing clients about taking online payments through their websites.   In this article, I will give you all the information that you need to get started accepting online payments. Here are answers to the most common questions about accepting payments in real-time through your website: Question:  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/how-to-accept-payments-in-a-website/</link>
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		<title>Do you lose pre-paid domain money when you change hosts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got this email inquiry from a potential customer yesterday: Comments: I recently started a website with (deleted name of host) which is a do-it-yourself web hosting site.  After a week or so, I think I&#8217;m about ready to throw in the towel!  The problem is that I&#8217;ve paid for my domain for the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/do-you-lose-pre-paid-domain-money-when-you-change-hosts/</link>
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		<title>Search Engine Friendly URLs Now in Our Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We updated our Store-Logic and Team-Logic CMS applications to take advantage of a new way to handle page URLs, which will make our client&#8217;s websites come up higher in Google and other search engines. I posted an in-depth article about how this works on our company blog today which you can view here.    These new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnmckown.com/search-engine-friendly-urls-now-in-our-applications/</link>
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