ARTICLE ARCHIVES

One (6/6/02) : Netscape 7 Debuts
The last time anyone was interested in Netscape was version 4.x. Since then, they've brought out 6.0 and just now, 7.0. Should you care? This is the first of a two-part IMHO that will at least give you reason to ponder.

Two (8/1/02) : Worldcom and XO Connectivity Customers out on a Limb?
Having seen a number of large telecom organizations go kaput within the past year, customers of Worldcom and XO should be considering alternative suppliers. At the very least, they should be exploring back-up connectivity such as a precautionary additional line from another carrier. In either case, there's a lot involved in taking these precautions; this issue of IMHO lists some of the tasks necessary. Also: a look at transfering to Priva's hosting services, a report on the Mozilla 1.0/Netscape 7.0 release party Priva held in Cleveland, some words about SOAP, and the dangers of unsecured wireless networks.

Three (8/29/02) : Priva Announces Praxis Online Retailer Software
Priva has completed programming and validation of its best of breed software to process online retail transactions. Upon installation, it lets any organization become e-commerce enabled: retailers can securely sell their products over the web. It is the first deliverable in Priva's E-commerce suite, which provides mid-tier companies all the advanced web capability heretofore affordable only to the Fortune 500. Also: Jake's findings about usability testing at Lycos, using webrings (!) to drive traffic to your site, and an some thoughts about using peer-to-peer software to fight spam.

Four (11/10/02) : Priva's Jake Baillie to Speak at Search Engine World
Our Jake Baillie will be discussing technical options for optimizing search engine rankings at Search Engine Strategies Conference in December. Priva Announces Usefulness Survey :: Priva, in conjunction with Crain's Chicago Business, will conduct a survey of Chicago area websites to evaluate their usefulness. The exhaustive survey will allow all businesses to see how their own sites measure up. Priva Hosting Achieves 99.9995% Uptime :: For the four months ending this September, Priva's server maintained an uptime record that puts us among the very elite web hosting services. Challenging Problem Posed by Chicago Equity Fund :: Priva is providing strategy to the Chicago Equity Fund to help this high profile real estate organization streamline its compliance operations by utilizing the Internet. And because of the number of parties involved, it's no cakewalk. Deep Thoughts on Writing for the Web :: Is writing for the web different from writing for other media? The answer is yes and no. And the reason for saying "no" may surprise you.

Five (2/4/02) : Priva to Introduce First Stage of Prizm
Our e-commerce visitation analytics software sees its first version release with Prizm PPC. Danbury Mint Launches Online Service Center :: Danbury's new site will assist their customers in ordering from their offline marketing efforts. Yahoo! Buys Inktomi... What! Does! It! Mean!? :: One of our senior team members' views on how Yahoo's recent acquisition will affect the search engine industry. Jake Baillie Does Boston :: Once again, Our Jake Baillie will be speaking on optimizing dynamic websites for search engines, this time at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in March. Worm Sacks Internet on Superbowl Weekend :: How Sapphire bogged down the Internet by creating huge amounts of traffic.

Six (3/25/02) : Priva Launches Website for Prizm
We've just launched a site explaining our new advanced web analytics system. Priva Adds to Total Managed Hosting Services :: How our new trouble alert system benefits our hosting clients. Diecast Zone Gets More out of Google! :: In order for one of our clients to get the most out of a new feature made available by the web's most popular search engine, we had to make some changes... Prediction: Next Generation of User Experience :: We foresee changes in how easy it is to shop online.