Xavier Media Group » Xavier Media® Group http://www.xmg.biz At this site you'll find information about all companies included in the Xavier media Group, our projects and our investments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:07:12 +0000 en hourly 1 IE6 no more http://www.xmg.biz/group/ie6-no-more/ http://www.xmg.biz/group/ie6-no-more/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:06:23 +0000 Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/?p=5470 IE6 no more is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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3700 people in UK is asking the UK government to replace IE6 as the web browser when people surf on external pages. This will put some pressure on most of the other European countries to start similar campaigns to replace IE6 or use other web browsers when surfing externally. Google has also announced earlier this week that they will remove support for IE6 in Google Docs, Google Sites and Gmail later this year. One of the reasons for these kinds of campaigns are the security issues involved in using old and out-dated web browsers.

On XavierMedia.com about 25% of the users are using a version of Internet Explorer an as much as 30% of them are using IE6. To encourage all the users of IE6 we're adding a text at the top of most of our pages letting them know that they're using an old and out-dated web browser. The users with IE6 will be suggested 4 updated web browsers: Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome.

At the same time as we're asking users to upgrade to a newer web browser with much fewer security issues, we will also stop testing our web projects in IE6. This means that if you use IE6 you may or may not be able to use our services in the future.

If you as a web developer, blogger or web site owner also would like to add the same message box asking people with old web browsers to update you can find the code you need at IE6 no more.com. They have codes for several languages like for example English, Spanish and Swedish. Users with new web browsers will of course not have to see the message box at all since it will only show when people with IE6 visit your site.

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Happy birthday to Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/group/happy-birthday-to-xavier-media/ http://www.xmg.biz/group/happy-birthday-to-xavier-media/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:17:13 +0000 Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/?p=102 Happy birthday to Xavier Media® is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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Today Xavier Media® is becoming a teenager (13 years old), so we would like to give our selfs a big congratulations ;-)

If you would like to see some of the things we've worked on during this time we have a "time machine" available for you at www.xmg.biz/timemachine/

Over these years we've developed over 200 web sites and many of them are still online today. Some of them we've sold to others, but they are still active. What we will continue to focus our development on the next 13 years depends on the global trends and technology development. My guess is that more social media networking related sites and projects will be done, but I hope we will see new innovative sites in other areas too.

Once again congratulations to the Xavier Media® Group and all our companies :D

Andreas
Business Development Director
Xavier Media

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The weakening of the dollar http://www.xmg.biz/finance/the-weakening-of-the-dollar/ http://www.xmg.biz/finance/the-weakening-of-the-dollar/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:31:19 +0000 Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/?p=94 The weakening of the dollar is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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If you are like us and live in Europe, while you earn most of your income from USD based companies you must have noticed the horrible change in exchange rates between the euro and the dollar this year.

When you do business online today the most popular currency is the dollar, but that's not good if you're located in a country which doesn't use dollar since the dollar have lost a lot of buying power this year.

To get an idea, just have a look at how the exchange rate between dollar and euro have developed over the year:

USD/EUR exchagne rate at 2009-11-17

The dollar has gone from an high-level of 0.79 against the euro down to 0.67 today!!!! This means that for every dollar you make you're actually earning 15% less that you would in April this year. And that's without losing any sales at all.

There's a similar trend for other currencies too, like for the Swedish Krona (SEK):

USD / SEK exchange rate at 2009-11-17

The drop here is from 9.25 in March down to 6.87 today. That's even worse then the development for the euro since that's a loss of 25.7%!!!

Lets hope the development changes soon, or Internet companies will have to start paying in euro instead.

A big thanks to Xavier Finans for the graphs.

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Support freedom of speech http://www.xmg.biz/group/support-freedom-of-speech/ http://www.xmg.biz/group/support-freedom-of-speech/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:22:18 +0000 Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/?p=82 Support freedom of speech is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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Do you have 87 minutes to spare, then you should see the movie BANANAS!* and support freedom of speech.

The movie is about how Dole (the fruit company) used harmful pesticides at their banana fields they knew where dangerous to
the workers. The movie is really something Dole doesn't want you to see, since they're trying to sue the filmmakers just to stop the movie….

Read the full story at XavierMedia.org.

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Blog Action Day: Climate Change http://www.xmg.biz/media/blog-action-day-climate-change/ http://www.xmg.biz/media/blog-action-day-climate-change/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:01:20 +0000 Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/?p=88 Blog Action Day: Climate Change is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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Today it's time for the yearly Blog Action Day when bloggers should write about the same subject. The subject for 2009 is Climate Change and Xavier Media Group is of course writing about that today.

At XavierMedia.com you can read about web hosting powered by renewable green energy (like for example energy produced by wind power plants). By selecting a web hosting company that powers their servers a "green" way you reduce the CO2 impact on the environment.

Our other blog XavierMedia.org is writing about how Xavier Media is saving money by only using energy produced by wind power plants at the office. To save money at the same time as you reduce the need for CO2 produced energy is a great way of doing some change.

If you have a blog and haven't joined Blog Action Day it's still not too late, you can still write about climate change!

If you don't have a blog yet it could be a good idea to start one already today so you're prepared for Blog Action Day next year. At eXavier.com you get a free blog with every domain name you register, so it's both easy and cheap to start your own blog. All you need to add is a little bit of inspiration.

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New layout for our company web site http://www.xmg.biz/group/new-layout-for-our-company-web-site/ http://www.xmg.biz/group/new-layout-for-our-company-web-site/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:54:53 +0000 Xavier Media® http://www.xmg.biz/?p=51 New layout for our company web site is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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We've upgraded our company web site with some information about the Xavier Media group. Our old web site company.xaviermedia.com will still be used, but only for back-office purposes like graphs, PDFs for investors etc….

We're doing this to separate news about the group from the actual business and to make it easier for our investors to find valuable information by accessing just one site. XMG.biz will of course also be used for our online office functions, but that will be done in a separate step.

Under the menu called "Companies" you will find statistics and reports from the different companies within the Xavier Media group. So far we only have statistics from Xavier Media, but pretty soon we'll add something about the other companies as well ;-)

For the average Joe we know this site will be pretty boring, but please remember that XMG.biz is mainly for just information about the group for people interested in our statistics and other numeric data :D

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AboutUs.org http://www.xmg.biz/group/aboutusorg/ http://www.xmg.biz/group/aboutusorg/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:56:19 +0000 xaviermedia http://company.xaviermedia.com/2007/11/06/aboutusorg/ AboutUs.org is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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AboutUs.org is a Wiki about all domain names in the world (or at least soon will be I guess). The Xavier Media™ staff is currently active at AboutUs.org writing descriptive articles about our own domain names like XavierMedia.com for example and we encourage you all to do the same, i.e. contribute to this fantastic Wiki about domain names :D

Please check out the following pages at AboutUs.org to see what AboutUs.org is all about:

If you like AboutUs.org you should also have a look at our own encyclopedia XavierPedia, the encyclopedia about everything called Xavier: XavierPedia.com

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Site updated http://www.xmg.biz/group/site-updated/ http://www.xmg.biz/group/site-updated/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:45:01 +0000 xaviermedia http://company.xaviermedia.com/2007/03/09/site-updated/ Site updated is a post from: Xavier Media Group

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We've just updated the site company.xaviermedia.com to WordPress to make it easier to update and maintain. At the same time we moved the about page and the time machine from the Xavier Media blog.

In the near future we'll add some more statistics and cool graphs :D

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