Archive for April, 2007

A plan to totally acquire Right Media by Yahoo

Yahoo just announced a plan to acquire Right Media - an internet company on advertising market. If you would remember way back October last year (2006), Yahoo made an investment to this company around 20 percent of its market share.
A rumored US$680 million will suit the stock and cash on this remaining interest Yahoo have. […]

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Added a new comment spam plugin

Just activated a new comment spam plugin called Spam Karma 2, because of lots of spam comments I am recieveing. Akismet seems not o be working on my end, my host is not allowing to communicate in akismet server. That at least according to the message i recieve when I try to enable the akismet […]

Monday, April 30th, 2007

AOL facelift

AOL is testing its new page out on beta form. Look at the layout, very much like Yahoo. http://www.aol.com/?optin=beta3
A Yahoo like design and the search powered by Google. A trio or combination of 3 big sites in one. Take a visit on AOL and you will know, I wonder how Yahoo would react on this […]

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Microsoft Content Ads

As you will notice Microsoft Content Ads is like Adsense that display contextual advertising in a webmaster site. Tracking back the post from adcenter blog dated October 18, 2006 here, http://blogs.msdn.com/adcenter/archive/2006/10/18/calling-all-us-content-advertisers.aspx
They are testing it on their own site in msn directories like health.msn.com and others and only available to US markets. There are also […]

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Another pagerank update

It seems google is updating now its webmasters long awaited pagerank on their sites. Most of the sites I have visited have either increased its Pagerank or lower it by one(-1) rank based on google algorithm of Pagerank.
The main page of this site got a PR of 5, dont know if it will changed over […]

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

It’s been a week

It is been a week since I made my last post. Whew! been busy this last couple of days and also projects that are line-up on my calendar this coming weeks.
Guess I have to rest first on updating this blog, or maybe if I have spare time then post something interesting. Oh by the way, […]

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Will google surpass StumbleUpon with their own version

With the latest release of google on its toolbar addition stumbleupon like dice, the question lies, will it surpass stumbleupon? This little dice can also be used or put into your personalized page under google.
On their post on searching without query at their blog,
The first is a recommendations button on the Google Toolbar that looks […]

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Yahoo embraced Paypal

Yahoo just announced the acceptance of paypal by putting a shopping cart icon on their engine to all results or sites accepting paypal payment method. You can checkout directly without sharing your credit card information with sellers when you see it on yahoo search.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/paypal/
New on Yahoo! Search - online shopping made easier and safer with […]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Was the new move by Google to cut link selling a good one?

On the recent post by MattCutts here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/ where how google stands for link buying for page rank boost is somehow shocked some webmasters engaged in link buying and selling.
There are already lots of comments and reactions on this implementation. What happen next if someone report your site selling links or someone have bought a […]

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Google Adsense to process payment via Western Union?

Will google adsense adding western union as a form of payment to adsense earnings? I have just check my account and you will below some tips that are showing up on the bar. And one caught my eye.

 If you will look into the TIP: you will see Western Union!!! hmmn, interesting maybe they are planning […]

Thursday, April 12th, 2007