March 20, 2011
For domainers there is a new coming soon domain extension: ICANN Approves new .xxx top level domain: Today the ICANN Board of Directors authorized the CEO of ICANN to execute the proposed registry agreement for the .xxx sTLD with ICM Registry. ICANN’s Board of Directors didn’t agree with GAC advice on the issue. It’s unclear [...]
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March 1, 2011
Amazon to Texas: Adios! Amazon.com shutting Irving office over tax dispute As a result of an ongoing tax dispute with Texas, Amazon.com has decided to take its ball and go home. The online retailer said Thursday that it would shutter its Irving distribution facility April 12 and cancel plans to hire as many as 1,000 [...]
March 1, 2011
If you are a mybloglog member you already got an email saying that they will close on March 24, 2011. That is a real bad news for me, as one of the tracking tools that I use in some of my niche sites is Mybloglog. You would not believe how many new keywords I have [...]
February 12, 2011
The New York Times has quite an article about white hat and black hat SEO – entitled “The Dirty Little Secrets of Search.” It seems that all through the holiday season, Penney’s website was at the top for all kinds of retail searches, including single keywords like “dresses”. Given the amount of competition for all [...]
December 5, 2010
Last month, e-commerce marketplace Amazon launched a relatively unnoticed new feature that brings content from Wikipedia pages to its own servers, in a shadowy new project that appears to be called “Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages.” Hosted on the Amazon.com domain, they replicate Wikipedia’s content but have added links to where a book can be purchased [...]
November 24, 2010
Facebook is just a payment away from trademarking the word “Face.†As of today the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means they have agreed to grant the “Face†trademark to Facebook. Source: TechCrunch I think this is beyond ridiculous! That was my first thought [...]
November 24, 2010
According to ComScore, consumers spent $9.01 billion during the first three weeks of November, representing a 13 percent gain over the $7.95 billion spent during the same period last year. For the months of November and December combined, ComScore is forecasting $32.4 billion in online spending. Last year, consumers spent $29.1 billion during that two-month [...]
November 20, 2010
This is really amazing how Facebook is getting bigger and bigger each year. By some metrics, Facebook is by far the single most popular website in the United States. This really tell us that there is money to be made with Facebook. According to data from analysis and intelligence firm Hitwise, Facebook’s year-over-year growth has [...]
November 15, 2010
Few weeks ago, I have registered a new email in one of my new domain names. After that I remember that I only registered in one email list. I was shocked when I received 5 emails in one second about viagra. Then after an hour I received again those nasty spam emails. Then I decided [...]
October 30, 2010
NEW eBay Selling Limits October 2010, eBay has changed it’s policy once again, this time it seems quite serious! The Internet is alive with reports on blogs and forums about these new eBay selling limits. It is not yet clear what effect this will have and exactly which sellers this will affect. If you read [...]
October 19, 2010
No more UK Yahoo Directory listings UK/IE Directory Closure FAQs When is the UK & Ireland Directory Closing? The Yahoo! UK & Ireland Directory will be shutting down on 18th of November 2010. Source: Yahoo closes directory listings in UK
October 14, 2010
Seems like they’ve been sliding for a long time, but AOL to buy Yahoo!? Such a shame how they’ve gone downhill over the years and ignored search and data which is the backbone and the key to all the success Google has had. Seems like under Bartz they’ve purposely tried to turn themselves into just [...]
