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MSN Live To Pay You To Search
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 [...]
Sell Your Baby On Ebay?
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 [...]
New York Wants To Charge Affiliates Sales Tax
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 [...]
Microsoft And Yahoo Merger Not To Be
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 gaining on [...]
A Billion Dollar Home!
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 features the [...]
Using RSS Feeds To Simply Your Web Experience
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 [...]
China’s Quiet Milestone
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 [...]
Google’s Tweaking Universal Search And Dumping SEM
If you have done some searches recently you may have noticed that Google is playing around with video placement in the search results. This allows for more videos to be displayed in its regular search results. If you are a marketer, if you haven’t started capitalizing on using video in your business, you are missing [...]
Don’t Like Your Life? Then Sell It????
Okay, this is one of those things that just makes you go, huh! There’s a guy, Ian Usher, in Australia that has decided to sell his life via auction as a way of clearing out stuff that reminds him of his marriage and that time in his life and start “fresh”. He is even giving [...]
Yahoo Buzz, The Next Digg?
I just found out that Yahoo is in alpha test mode for its own social news site. It continues to amaze me how many of these site seem to constantly pop up. It is definitely a sign of the dramatic expansion of the participatory web (breaking news, huh). It makes you wonder about how many [...]