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This is the first post in a new section called “Cool Tools” (I know, very original). Anyway, I just found a new plugin for wordpress that allows a visitor to sign up for sms alerts. I have no idea whether or not people will enter their cell phone numbers but I will give it a [...]

If you are an Adwords advertiser, you may have gotten an email today saying that Google decided to show actual numbers for traffic estimates! This is a beautiful thing as it will allow me to better estimate how many clicks and impressions I can expect from a particular phrase in any given position of [...]

I just came across an article in MSN about the world now having 10 million millionaires! It is a bit a counter intuitive information given the current recession but it makes perfect sense. People who recognize the movements in their markets can profit no matter what the conditions are. Tags: millionaires, rich, money, msn

In a move the reeks of desperation, Microsoft has decided to start paying people to click on ads and subsequently make a purchase. Year over year, MSN Live continues to lose market share to the Googleplex so it is looking for anything to start getting people to get familiar and actually use Live.com. They have partherships [...]

Okay, this just falls in the “what the hell were you thinking” category and is a bit outside of my normal types of posts so please forgive me. But. . . There is a couple in Germany that tried to sell their baby on ebay for 1 Euro. They now face child trafficking charged and claim [...]

Talk about a case of too much government! You may have heard about the recent legislation that New York state passed that give it the authority to charge sales tax to ANY entity selling to a resident of the state no matter where they are based. That love also extends to affiliate sales! Can you [...]

Finally after months of grand standing and covert ops, it appears that Microsoft decided to drop it’s pursuit of Yahoo. Here’s a link to the official press release. Although the deal may have created lots of synergies between the two online media behemoths, it would not have done much in the way of [...]

You are not going to believe this but Forbes posted a story about the richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, building a home costing nearly $2,000,000,000 dollars! 2 billion dollars? It will be 27 stories tall and have over 400,000 square feet of space including 6 floors of parking. While impressive with it’s [...]

I recently came across a video, that a friend sent to me, that defines RSS and it’s uses in a light hearted manner. It’s the best explanation that I have seen so far so I wanted to include that video for you. After that there is another video about getting RSS feed for specific tag [...]

If you haven’t already heard by now, China officially passed the US in the sheer number of online users, according to Nielsen Net Ratings.  While everyone knew this would happen it still is a huge reminder of how quickly the world is going digital.  China boasts some 233 million users!  Now his sounds really impressive [...]