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Microsoft Underwhelms Again
OK, when I heard Microsoft was hiring Jerry Seinfeld for its marketing campaign, the hopeful part of me thought perhaps that Microsoft was suddenly growing a clue on how to market. But, alas, I thought wrong.
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I am not alone in the sentiment that this commercial was not funny. It was also a waste of airtime [...]
Lively.com? What the F**k Is Google Thinking?
Remember Orkut? The social network might be popular in Brazil, but it is a tiny fish when compared to Myspace or Facebook.
Now we have Lively, a new virtual reality site which, as Andy Beal puts it, will be the the Orkut to Second Life.
My question? WHY?
As Google posts in their blog,
A while ago, I looked [...]
Iran to Kill Bloggers?
When you see stories like this one, it makes you step aside and really think. As you know, yesterday was July 4th - Independence Day - here in the United States. I am actually able to make a living by blogging. We don’t have any governmental agency trying to regulate us (yet). But, over in [...]
New York Screws Affiliate Businesses
As a lot of people know, selling products and earning affiliate commissions is one of the leading ways to generate an income online. I, myself, have made quite a bit of money by selling products as an affiliate.
We also know that government typically has a reverse midas touch - everything they touch turns to shit. [...]
Yahoo Strokes Google, Puts on Show for Microsoft
Yahoo is in a pickle. Microsoft is setting up for a hostile takeover of Yahoo and Yahoo is doing everything it possibly can to puff it’s chest and look valuable.
Part of this strategy is apparently to woo Google. Yahoo was to run a 2-week trial of running Google Adsense ads on the Yahoo properties. Yahoo, [...]
China To Bypass U.S. As Leading Internet Market?
Techcrunch has posted a story about how China is close to becoming the world’s largest Internet market. According to the story, China is now only 5 million users shy of breaking past the United States as the leading country online.
Here’s the catch, though, that Techcrunch doesn’t really talk about. This information is put out by [...]
Google Adjusts Click Spots on Adsense - Lowers CTR
Google has made a change to the clickable spots on their Adsense ads. The change might be good for the quality of their ad network, but it is not working out well for web publishers. In fact, Google is sacrificing revenue on their own to make this change.
Usually, almost the entire space of an Adsense [...]
Last Week In Short, OpenSocial, Google Mobile Alliance
Well, I did it again. It has been over a week since I posted here at WebbyOnline. Other than being extremely busy, you can head on over to PC Mechanic for the long story. The short version is that I began using a Mac last week. The conversion to Mac has not exactly been hassle [...]
Google Slaps Webmasters Around Using PageRank
There has been a lot of talk about Google going after paid links. In other words, if you sell links on your page, Google has a problem with you now. Well, it also appears as if Google is in the process of updating PageRanks. And a lot of blogs are all of a sudden finding [...]
AOL Actually Launches Something New?
Yeah, remember AOL? That company that used to equal the internet to a large portion of the surfing public? That company that used to litter out mailboxes with AOL software CDs? Yeah, those people. Well, they are apparently launching something new: AOL Mobile.
AOL is today launching a mobile version of it’s AOL.com portal as [...]
