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A Web Hosting for Your Online Store

Although creating business online means that you don’t have to rent space in a mall or open a real, physical store, you do have to set up a virtual space for your online business. You do so by creating a Web site and finding a company to host it. In cyberspace, your landlord is called a Web hosting service. A Web host is a company, makes your site available 24 hours a day by maintaining it on a special computer called a Web server.

A Web host can be as large and well known as America Online, which gives all its customers a place to create and publish their own Web pages. Some Web sites, such as Tripod (www.tripod.lycos.com), act as hosting services and provide easy-to-use Web site creation tools as well. Or you can choose free hosting like freeweb7 (freeweb7.com) which the feature is not like other free web host.

In addition, the company that gives you access to the Internet — your Internet service provider (ISP) — may also publish your Web pages. Make sure that your host has a fast connection to the Internet and can handle the large numbers of simultaneous visits, or hits, that your Web site is sure to get eventually.

Google for Programmers

All search engines operate by building an index of both Web pages and the content of those pages. This index is constructed with the help of bots, sometimes called spiders or crawlers. The index is a search engine’s prime asset, the ever-shifting body of information that the engine matches against your keywords to deliver results. The formula that each search site uses to compile and search the index is a closely guarded secret.

Although Google doesn’t breathe a word about its indexing formulas, it does do something else that’s unprecedented and exciting. Google has released its application programming interface (API) to the public. An API enables software programmers to incorporate one program or body of data into another program. For example, Microsoft releases its Windows APIs to authorized developers who write stand-alone Windows software. Google’s API lets software geniuses write programs that can access Google’s index directly, bypassing the familiar interface at Google’s site. The public API is more important than it might seem at first. In the short time that the API has been available, many alternate Googles have sprung up, each a legitimate and authorized new method of Googling. A few people have created instant message conduits to Google, so you can launch a search while chatting in certain IM programs.

Some graphic presentations of Google search results that are being developed are, frankly, mind-blowing. Google’s expansion through third-party development lends variety to a search experience that is basically a rather drab chore no matter how skillfully accomplished. And, like other Google innovations, the public API will probably serve to drive Google even deeper into the mass consciousness of the Internet community. Google will take over your soul. This, too, is a good thing. If you’re of a particularly geekish mindset or have some programming skills, you should know about Google Code, a clearinghouse for the publication of Google APIs. We can check at code.google.com

Do you Yahoo! or Google this

In my life as an online citizen, two destinations are indispensable. One is Yahoo!, a gargantuan domain that provides more free services than a sane person would try to count. The other is Google, which makes my virtual movements faster and more exact than ever. Online life without either is inconceivable. Google has embedded itself into the lifestyles of ordinary Internet citizens and the business practices of companies more profoundly and securely than Yahoo! has. Yahoo! is certainly more diversified than Google, with a portion of its empire devoted to nearly every activity in which a person could engage online: playing games, booking travel, researching stocks, meeting a soul mate, chatting about nothing, watching music videos on and on.

Yahoo! operates the most popular G-rated, legal, free activity platform on the open Internet, Yahoo! has, until recently, forsaken its roots as a search engine and left the fertile field of keyword matching open to Google. Each service is a cornerstone of the Internet. Prediction is a risky business, but when I’m in a divining mood, I can easily see Google becoming the most important online service in history, approaching the geek-idealist’s dream of indexing every bit of human knowledge and virtual expression, with an awareness of the surrounding context and with each contribution ranked by its peers and instantly accessible. The surprising part is how closely Google is chasing it already. With each passing day, the thought becomes more inconceivable for life without Google.

Empty calories

All food provides calories and calories provide energy. But not all calories come with a full complement of benefits such as amino acids, fatty acids, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Some foods are said to give you empty calories. This term has nothing to do with the calorie’s energy potential or with calories having a hole in the middle. It describes a calorie with no extra benefits. The best known empty calorie foods are table ethanol and sugar, the kind of alcohol found in beer, wine, and spirits. On their own, ethanol and sugar give you energy but no nutrients.

People who abuse alcohol are not always thin, but the fact that they often substitute alcohol for food can lead to nutritional deficiencies, most commonly a deficiency of vitamin B1, resulting in loss of appetite, an upset stomach, depression, and an inability to concentrate.

But many people who can afford enough food nevertheless are malnourished because they simply don’t know how to choose a diet that gives them nutrients as well as calories. For these people, eating too many foods with empty calories can cause significant health problems, such as having weak bones; being underweight ; getting bleeding gums, skin rashes, and other nasties; and developing mental disorders, including depression and preventable retardation