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Entries from May 2007

Google Street View is Creepy

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Seeing a close-up of this woman jogging is just a little spooky. Privacy concerns anyone? Here is a screen shot (2mb+) in case that link doesn’t work.
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Tags: Google · Maps · Search Engines

The Buzz: Increasing Foreclosure Opportunity

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

There is still a huge foreclosure opportunity. The folks over at Yahoo Buzz have reported on the increasing interest.
Studious flippers made mad dollars in an overheated real estate market, but crafty speculators have now moved on to the foreclosure market. Searches on “foreclosure homes,” “foreclosure listings,” and “bank foreclosures” have all jumped in the past [...]

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Tags: Business · Foreclosures · SEM · SEO · Search Engine Marketing · Yahoo

Introducing…Lucy

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

My new “assistant”:

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Tags: Dogs · Lucy

Happy Memorial Day

May 25th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: America · Memorial Day · Music · USA

Text Link Ads…Works For Me

May 24th, 2007 · No Comments

A while back I tested out Text Link Ads on a couple of websites I have that are pretty low traffic and were making close to nothing with Google Adsense and some affiliate links.
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Tags: Advertising · Business · Marketing · Text Link Ads

Google Video Piracy

May 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Type in a lot movie names into Google Video and you can watch the full length version. Some movies only take a couple of seconds to find. No stealing, no downloading, just streaming movies courtesy of Google. Hard to believe this kind of piracy is still so easy to find…here is the Enron movie.
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Tags: Enron · Google · Google Video · Movies · Piracy · Video

You can get it on eBay

May 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

“Whatever it is…you can get it on eBay” is how that slogan goes, right?

They really mean it! I couldn’t find any bloody kittens or dead puppies, but I did see this:

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Tags: Advertising · SEM · Search Engine Marketing · Shopping · eBay

.CM Scam Details

May 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I never understood why most domains ending in .cm (usually happens when you miss the “o” typing a domain, which I seem to do at least once every few days) land on a shady looking agoga.com page filled with ads. Now I see why.
The .CM pages are served based on a wildcard. If the domain [...]

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Tags: Business · Cameroon · Domain Parking · Domains · TechCrunch

Affiliate Summit 2007 East

May 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Affiliate Summit 2007 East is coming up July 8-10 in sunny (okay, hot) Miami, Florida. This will be my second trip to Affiliate Summit, and my first trip to the Miami Summit. This time around, I’ll be on a panel discussing how “major online traffic and transaction channels fit together”.
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Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Affiliate Summit · Conferences · Events

YouTube & The 2008 Election

May 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Every little political misstep, no matter how human, is uploaded online…

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Tags: Election · Politics · Video · YouTube