Monday, January 14, 2008

Toshiba cries "It ain't fair..": Cuts HD DVD Hardware Prices

...boo hoo... HD DVD is on death's door step and Toshiba is set to do something about it !

Broadband Service in Malaysia

You won't believe it that I'm still accessing the net via dial-up service when I'm at home. Reason is because I travel a lot and I'm only sourcing for a good broadband service now. What's available in Malaysia right now?

6 Effortless Ways To Build High Powered BackLinks

Link building is an essential promotional process for any ones internet business. If you neglect this task you will be at risk of losing a sizable amount of potential profits. SEO and Link Building is a successful affiliate marketers best friend.

Ready to Make Tax

Google Adsense we'll begin sending eligible publishers a Form 1099-MISC on January 31st. Whether you're new to AdSense or just find it hard to keep tax details straight, please remember that all publishers are responsible for paying any taxes resulting from participating in the AdSense program.

Million BBC users watch 3.5 million programmes since Xmas

More than 3.5 million programmes have been watched by more than a million people using the BBC's online video service iPlayer since 25 December. On average, 250,000 programmes were either streamed or downloaded each day following the Christmas Day launch.

6 Free SEO Tools You Absolutely CanĂ¢€™t Live Without

I use a variety of SEO related tools on an almost daily basis, and the best part is, all of them are totally free! However, I remember back in the day when I didn't have all of the awesome tools bookmarked for my convenience, and I would never remember which ones were which...

Plaxo Implementing I-Names for OpenID

Plaxo provides support for open standards. Finally someone taking a leadership position on Identity and data-portability on the internet.

Plaxo Implementing I-Names for OpenID

Plaxo provides support for open standards. Finally someone taking a leadership position on Identity and data-portability on the internet.

The Three Biggest Mistakes in Search Marketing

Yahoo Search Marketing team mentioned one or more mistakes of the search marketer who misses the marketing part. Marketing is more about marketing than search, because the search technology piece seems so new and different.

BlueHost, HostMonster Reach Milestone

BlueHost and HostMonster, a domain registrars and Web hosting providers, announced that their combined hosting platforms

Be on the Cutting Edge!

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Best of Photo Sharing and Photo Storage Websites

Here are the top websites in photo sharing and networking ranked by users. These sites allow you to upload all your photos and keep them private or share them with others. Many of these site have no ads and offer unlimited uploading.

CES 2008 brief review

CES 2008 brief review of items I found interesting.

.99 Domain Names - a Professional Webmaster's Secret Weapon

The cheap domain frenzy is back. Trust me, you want to take advantage of this while you can!

QinetiQ North America's Gunshot Localization Technology

A SYS-CON.com Story

Treat your blog like a business.

If you blog with the view of earning money, this one is for you. An interesting and different look at the do's and dont's.

How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

Many great articles go unnoticed on social bookmarking sites because their headline is not catchy enough. Your headline is the first (and very often the only) thing users will see from your article, so if you don't make the effort to provide a catchy headline, your chances of getting to the front page are small.

Leading Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence

The basic theories broken down

The Diminishing Value of the SEO Shop

Good writeup on how SEO firms are going to need to offer more than just the nuts-and-bolts of SEO or they're not going to be around in the not-so-distant future.

Email marketing service providers, reviewed, compared - 2008

Are you looking for an email marketing service provider? Here are your top choices which were reviewed and compared.

New Research Shows Online TV Episode Viewership Doubles

Horowitz Associates' just-released report, Broadband Content and Services 2007, tm reveals the rapid growth in consumption of broadband video among adult Internet users. Complete details at this post.

Microsoft Surface

I'm sure you all heard, I think, that Bill Gates is stepping down this July from being a Microsoft CEO to a retired IT Ninja. Anyway, in his last keynote speech, at CES 2008, he introduced Microsoft Surface, a new cutting-edge surface computing. Amazingly designed user interface and way too stunning, at least for me as I love technology,

CES All Keynotes Audio/Video Available Online

All the audio/video presentations at CES 2008 are available for streaming or download as Podcast

The Site Therapist: e-Solutions For Your Business

Following A New Path: The Internet Yellow Brick Road – understand what is needed to create a functional, professional and successful website. Topics include: website purpose and project details, building your web team, planning, design and testing process, maintenance, marketing, and selecting a domain name.

Good SEO Companies Diversify.

Followup to an article by Mike Grehan on the ClickZ Network. Good writeup about how SEO firms won't be around in the not-so-distant future if they continue to put too much focus on the nuts-and-bolts of SEO and not much else.

Coghead moves UI over to Adobe Flex

Coghead took a giant step toward taking Web 2.0 application development mainstream with the announcement today of Coghead version 2.0 which will use Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Computer Cloud) hosting service and incorporate the Adobe Flex development environment into its infrastructure.

Lawrence Lessig's Final Free Culture Talk

Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2008.

Lawrence Lessig's Final Free Culture Talk

Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2008.

Porn industry decides to go with Blu-ray

In a stunning announcement the porn industry (which now has to make its performers become fitter, tighter and with less blemishes for extreme close up sex scenes)

New Variant of Crimeware Toolkit

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) has identified yet another significant new web attack -- the latest in a genre of crimeware that threatens to turn highly trusted web sites into insidious traps for unwary visitors.

MYSPACE.COM TO ADD ONLINE PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN

MYSPACE TO ADD ONLINE PROTECTION UNDERAGE USERS

Mobile platform for publishing your content free

MYiOTA, the mobile service providing fast Internet and SMS services to it's world wide users, have launched the MYiOTA Developer Zone, providing a unique environment for developers, entrepreneurs and businesses to create services for use by MYiOTA users.

Take Your Show On The Road: Tips To Help Escape the Office

Skellie's new blog is a winner, and in this guest post by Mark Hayward, the principles of using online marketing to free your life are further built upon. Travel anywhere in the world whilst maintaining a fulltime income. Wahay!

Myspace,FunkySexyCool Take Social Networking Mobile

Well it seems that the ever so popular social networking trend is making its way to the mobile phone, according to a TV broadcast in which MySpace, Google and FunkySexyCool were interviewed.

Catching up on Mentions

Shoemoney on various topics

Happy 7th Birthday Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, launched in the teeth of the dotcom bust, turns seven today. It is, by all accounts, still acting its age.

CES 2008 - Top 10 Gadgets

Top 10 CES 2008 Gadgets.

Facebook: The Roach Motel of Social Media

Debunking Web 2.0 mysticism...

EU says costs for Galileo satellite project reliable

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission defended on Monday its 3.4 billion euro ($5 billion) cost forecast for the Galileo satellite navigation program following a report the budget is bound to be seriously overrun. The German weekly Der...

MySpace's New Child Protection to Set New Standards?

I personally think that ALL social sites will tighten their child protection. MySpace is indeed just setting a new standard.

Will Digital Watermarking Rise From DRM's Ashes?

Okay, so DRM is dead dead dead. Hurray, right? Well, Wired says it's simply being swapped out for digital watermarking, which will lay out breads crumbs for the labels to follow as songs make their way across P2P networks, and the bundle of evidence will allow them to place pressure on ISPs to engage in large-scale network filtering.

The Curse of Technology

What is the biggest impediment to the advancement of technology today?

5 simple reasons: Facebook is not a threat to Google

Simple put, Google is like a splendid old library, Facebook is a bit like the pub.

Google can bid in wireless auction: regulators

Communications regulators have cleared Google to bid in an upcoming auction of coveted wireless airwaves, according to auction documents released by the Federal Communications Commission on Monday.

Time for Universal Computer Education-Dvorak sais, Rightly!

It really is surprising the kind of problems that flood PC services on campuses and in business establishments worldwide! This should have been done a long time ago like other problems with education here in the US!

Partners launch MonkeySee.com - Washington, D.C.

My clients rock! Check out their new how-to video site!