Over at the Windows Server Divison Team WebLog, news that a couple of new addons for IIS have been released. Take advantage of these new technologies and the latest Windows Server operating system and see your site soar up the rankings!

Developers looking to take advantage of the new features in R2 should be delighted to hear about a new training kit made available for download by MS.

Over at MS they’re developing a whole load of web addons (as discussed in previous WebPI post). This particular little number might be useful for the wider community of developers who might not need such automated tools to configure their servers.
Bing Maps beta (http://www.bing.com/maps/)
MSDN: Developing a Silverlight Application Using Bing Maps Web Services (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879136.aspx)
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Is there a more dominant business in its market than Google is today? The word ‘giant’ is over used to describe the size of companies but in Google’s case is seems inadequately small. So let’s say the galaxy-sized company this week reported record quarterly profits of a £1 billion, up 27% on the same period [...]

The last few months have been non stop for myself and the UKFast Research & Development team. The summer has seen the release of a plethora of fantastic new systems into the UKFast software arsenal, using some of the latest coding forms and techniques the open source world has to offer. I am not going [...]

This week, Microsoft launched their Web Platform Installer 2.0 tool.
This simple to use, extremely lightweight piece of software allows end users to quickly and easily install a plethora of free Web Platform software.
See here for information and download: http://www.iis.net/webpi
What’s great about this is that it really does make it a lot easier for administrators to [...]

New figures show that UK businesses are leading the way in utilising the Internet for advertising. According to data released by the Internet Advertising Bureau, the UK has become the first major world economy where advertisers are now spending more money on online advertising than on more traditional television options.

It is no secret that commercial [...]

UKFast’s contest to find the next big ebusiness will soon kick-off and this means that the deadline for applications is rapidly approaching.
Anyone with a great idea for an online business can get the chance to benefit from six months of free hosting from the UK’s fastest hosting provider by entering the UKFastTrack. However, they must [...]

Guinness Premiership high flyers Sale Sharks have launched their new home kit, proudly adorned with the UKFast branding.
The snappy new strip, created by the visionary partnership of the club’s merchandise manager Lisa Robinson and long-term kit makers Cotton Traders, is designed to infuse the speed and power of the Sharks’ style of rugby into their [...]

To be a success online you need many things – a great idea, determination, a little capital etc. But top of your list has to be Google Love. Trying to grow an online business without it would be like trying to hold back the tide – impossible.
But what is Google Love?
Google Love: (Goo gle Love)|goo:gul:luv|noun
What [...]