Most free, user-based Web sites will quickly remove any offensive language added by an unscrupulous visitor.
In 2010, fee-based dating Web sites grossed over a billion dollars.
Drupal is one of several open source-based frameworks for creating web sites.
In another new development, both camps are taking a page from big corporations, customizing their ads to individuals, based on their favorite Web sites.
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Early strategies from renting space in malls to Web-based merchants and gearing up their own Web sites went nowhere.
Many location-based sites provide guidelines for businesses on their Web sites.
New York-based 800America.com touted its Web sites, offering everything from online payment services to sales of closed-out merchandise.
Instead of submitting users to a test, the Atlanta-based company's technology plugs into Web sites and invisibly analyzes users' online behavior to determine who's a human and who's a bot.
In December, the company's U.S.-based Web-search, sports, finance and email sites all had 12% to 25% fewer unique visitors compared with a year earlier, according to comScore Inc.
Web sites such as New York City-based Value Forum and San Mateo, Calif.
From mapping sites to social networks, web-based software evolves much faster than desktop software, which often looks old-fashioned by comparison.
The shop now is one of the top two in automating Web sites (the other is BroadVision, based in Redwood City, California).
For instance, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America helped CI and other partners to launch the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for Business, a web-based platform that provides information on the highest priority sites globally for conservation.
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Analysts also expect to see MP3-based handheld audio systems, which let users download music files from Web sites and carry them around "Walkman" style.
What started as a small online web-based community four years ago is now among the United Kingdom's busiest sites.
The Stockholm-based web host PeRiQuito AB, or PRQ, has long attracted some of the most controversial sites on the Internet.
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Both McAfee and UK-based antivirus software vendor Sophos PLC said they posted an alert to the variant on their Web sites.
Rather than opening up the web, the current popularity of social networks, discovery sites, and algorithmic based recommendations puts a huge amount of power into a very small number of sites.
Oxygen, based in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, is still planning to unveil its Web sites on May 1.
"There's a fundamental flaw in the way people approach social community Web sites, " says Mike McDerment, chief executive of FreshBooks, a Toronto-based online-invoicing outfit that mainly serves small companies.
These Web properties have become an increasingly more important contributor to growth as consumers turn to Internet-based commerce sites for their convenience and value.
The predictions, it says, are based on a wide swath of data AOL collects, from the Web searches people make on its site to the sites visited by subscribers to its Internet services.
They offer several different approaches to integrating collaborative capabilities into the IT infrastructure: standalone on-premise application platforms, remote or cloud-based hosted applications, components that integrate directly into other enterprise tools or those that integrate into enterprise portals and web sites.
"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on Linux, " Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still recommend its AIX Unix-based server to customers that wanted to run large, serious enterprise applications.
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