Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
That's the rumor around the internet today. I strapped on my trusty spyware-infested Internet Explorer with PageRank Bar installed and headed out to see. The only thing I can see is:
Pages that are updated:
Pages created before April or so
Existing pages apparently haven't been update, so this is sort ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
The moment that PayPal has been dreading has arrived: Google debuts Google Checkout. Analysts were allegedly unsure if whether the system was designed to compete with Ebay's PayPal:
The new offering, referred to in news and analyst reports as GBuy or Google Wallet, promises online sellers an easy way to ...
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Google has had enough of hiding their light under a bushel barrel. They need revenues, and they need'em now. I know the feeling, so I applaud Google's newest attempts to get people to look at ads. One ad unit in particular I've been enjoying lately is the ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Google is ready to compete with everyone. This time they have a major battle on hand as they go up against PayPal in a battle of electronic payment systems. Paypal is the current champ of processing payments with over 100 million account holders.
There's no word on ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
I know most people love search engines, and hackers are no exception. They use search engines to make nice lists of targets. This is quite a common thing, with signatures from certain websites targeted:
"Search engines crawl sites, and some information that you don't want exposed is also exposed ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Microsoft is looking to migrate their blogging service Spaces to Windows Live. It's part of an ongoing effort by them to integrate some of their services into Live, which would allow them to leverage loyalty with a consistent user interface. Live has been a bit of a dud, ...
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
I'm beginning to think of blogs as content channels. A user dials in and selects a channel by URL and expects to receive a certain amount of entertainment, and/or enlightenment. Users can handle a lot of choice, as they prove in every industry. 10,000 channels on one ...
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Main man Aaron Brazell says People don't want the stinkin' RSS, in large part because they don't understand it. He has a point. I guess I view RSS as being easy because it's easy to me. But we all know that things that may be easy to ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
One of the keys to the online marketing game is to never give up on pulling revenue out of a website. There are a number of ways to do it, and you always benefit from taking advantage of them. Some of these ideas may be basic, but they ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
The success of MySpace continues to amaze everyone, but we now may be at the point where the party is definitely over. There are huge numbers of estimated child predators visiting the social networking site for teens, and one mother launched a massive $30 million lawsuit against MySpace after ...
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