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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google spam suite primer — Google provides a full suite of services for the entry-level blog spammer. There are plenty of legitimate uses for all of these Google services, but Google's market-leading position in search creates a spam ecosystem that inflates corporate revenues, index size, and user data.
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Something Rotten in AdSense — Google AdSense is a system for web publishers of all sizes, from big newspapers to tiny bloggers. They sign up with Google to place a small box full of text ads on their site. You've probably seen it, but if you haven't, check out Michael's techInterview site for an example.
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
A LIST BLOGGER OPENLY RECOMMENDS CLICK FRAUD...WHO'S HAT IS BLACK? — To be honest, I normally think rather highly of Mitch Ratcliffe, but this anti blogspot spam comment is off the mark: … What is the best that would come out of that? Spam blogs would quickly and easily be built elsewhere …
Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
How to get Google to fix BlogSpot — Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Google spam suite primer: … One answer to this problem is counter-intuitive. The solution to the problem it to click gratuitously and never make purchases on the links at blogspot sites and to keep doing so to drive down conversion rates.
David / A design and usability blog:
The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance David — Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary. — In version 1., web masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified …
Shapdaddy / thefifthrule.com:
Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You're In Luck! — A buddy of mine just sent me a torrent for a hack version of the new Front Row application for the new iMacs. Download the torrent file and get the contents (2.8 mb file) follow the read me and you're golden! — Installation:
Tania Ralli / New York Times:
Brand Blogs Capture the Attention of Some Companies — Michael Marx loves Barq's root beer. He frequently wears a Barq's T-shirt. He brings Barq's root beer to parties. — So it should come as no surprise that Mr. Marx, 34, of Gilbert, Ariz., keeps a blog dedicated to Barq's.
Business Week:
"Working Late" Won't Work Anymore — New services can track you-or your loved ones-by cell phone — It sounded too Orwellian ever to succeed. In 2000, Korean cellular carrier SK Telecom introduced a service called "find friends" that lets others follow your every move, using a signal beamed from your handset.
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Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Cisco's new tool for emergency communications … Cisco Systems announced on Monday an Internet Protocol communications system designed to link radio networks used by police, fire, rescue and other public-safety departments. — Today, in most cities and towns, each department has its own radio communications network.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Rumors of Sun-Google Hosted Desktop Suite Quashed — Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. — Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans …
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Jonny Evans / Wired News:
Divvying Up the Download Payload — LONDON — Ever since the Beatles, British music has rocked the world. — But behind the scenes of Cool Britannia, British musicians and labels are fighting bitterly over money as sales of online music change the economics of the industry.
BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's weblog:
Budget Launches Blog-Based Up Your Budget 16-City Treasure Hunt — I've only posted about once a day here for the past three weeks. That's because I have had the extreme pleasure of providing both concept and creative management on the first entirely blog-based viral contest campaign, Up Your Budget.
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Hugh / gapingvoid:DOES THIS MEAN THE BLOG IS NOW OFFICIALLY MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
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Marketing Begins At Home
Christopher Null / Wired News:
No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs — Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn't allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set …
Stephen H. Wildstrom / Business Week:
Why Worms Shun Apple's OSX — Successful assaults by viruses and other malware on the Mac operating system are rare as it has better security and attackers are less keen — Ilya van Sprundel writes: In this article about the Mac Mini (see BW, 2/14/05, "And For Steve Jobs's Next Trick …
geektechnique.org:
how-to turn a digital camera into an IR-camera — First of all, I know this has been done before (with webcams for example), but I thought it would be nice to give you an extensive insight view of how I transferred my old digital camera (which would probably fetch only $30 on ebay or such) into a infrared camera.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Revisionist curmudgeons — Predictably, the backlashers are trying to make their marks and get their linkjuice by arguing that this web/citizens/blog thing just ain't what it's being blown up to be. But so much of the antihype is even sillier than the hype.
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