Technical
Experiment: Merging a Store With a Blog
Yesterday, I did some research into some business development strategies. One of the things that crossed my radar was the idea of merging an online store with a blog. My situation is this… PCMech gets a lot of traffic. The online store, however, is linked in the top menu but is otherwise a completely separate [...]
Spammers = Assholes
For the last several days, I have been getting bounce emails containing gibberish. This morning, I get this in my email: That’s right. Some asshole is out there mailing penis spam with MY email as the return address. I wouldn’t be surprised if MY email is being added to blacklists. Chances are, one of my [...]
Alexa Overhauls Stats: You Seeing Changes?
Alexa has long been used as a source for data on traffic for websites. Problem is, it has also long been known for being wildly inaccurate. It is a decent indicator of trends, but not actual traffic. Well, Alexa has announced it is changing the way it counts traffic, according to a story on Techcrunch. [...]
Why PCMech Was Sluggish Yesterday
Some may have noticed that PCMech was slower to respond yesterday than usual. Here’s why: That is what they call, in technical terms, a big-ass traffic spike. In other terminology, it was a Digg Effect from our article Why Use Linux? getting onto the homepage of Digg and basically coming in as the #8 most [...]
Importing List to Aweber – Very Drawn Out
I talked earlier about how I decided to move my email lists over to Aweber. As many who have done this know, it is the importing process that is the most grueling. Today, I am on the 5th group of 2000 imports into the Aweber system. Tomorrow, they are supposed to review my email list [...]
WYSIWYG Flash Programming Sprouts Up
This looks to have "super-cool" written all over it. Sprout is a new web-based application which serves as a WYSIWYG editor for Flash applets. It was released today Tuesday at DEMO. From the website: Building a sprout is easy. Choose from dozens of pre-built templates or start from scratch. Drag-and-drop shapes, text, images, video, and [...]
Reality TV Meets The Internet
Love it or hate it, reality TV is a new media phenomenon. It is obviously huge business for the television industry. It was only a matter of time before reality TV came online. And it has. The Next Internet Millionaire is a new web-based reality television show. As far as I know, the show is [...]
Paypal Subscriptions are Currently Inoperable
Ouch! There are already those who are a little skeptical of using Paypal for business transactions. Now we have a little more fuel to the fire. Paypal is currently having problems with their subscription service and is not processing any transactions for subscriptions. A lot of users are reporting big time problems with it right [...]
Understanding Facebook Basics
OK, after a couple of posts which discuss the impact of Facebook on the web, let’s get down to “brass tacks” here and see what Facebook is all about at the ground level. After all, like about 150,000 people do every day, I recently created a Facebook profile. On the surface, it appears like most [...]
Does Facebook Represent a Google Killer?
I saw a really interesting (and controversial) viewpoint by Robert Scoble that I thought was very fitting into my look at Facebook this week. He contends that Facebook, along with Mahalo and Techmeme, represent a force that will spell trouble for Google within the next four years. Here, check out these videos by Scoble: Part [...]
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