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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Google Search: totaltravel

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The Elements Beach House Beaut of a sponsored site...familiar sort of look to it...by http://www.3053.worldstays.com/

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Sunday, April 24, 2005

Emails bigger threat to IQ than cannabis

Guardian Unlimited | Online | : "The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.
Doziness, lethargy and an increasing inability to focus reached 'startling' levels in the trials by 1,100 people, who also demonstrated that emails in particular have an addictive, drug-like grip."

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Monday, April 18, 2005

TiVo courts search giants

CNET News.com: "TiVo is in talks with Internet search giants Google and Yahoo over a possible deal aimed at bridging television and the Web"

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Yahoo Offers Free Sites for Small Businesses

Local Listings: "Now get a FREE web site when you list your business on Yahoo! Local."

Details: "Yahoo's offer of free Web sites for small businesses aims to expand those businesses' presence across the search engine's properties. With today's announcement, Yahoo also wants to expand Internet capabilities to the more than 50 percent of the 20 million U.S. small businesses without a Web site.

Promote your business to highly qualified prospects in your area by listing your business on Yahoo! Local. Each listing features detailed information that sets your business apart. Plus, now every business in the U.S. can get a FREE web site.

A Yahoo! Local Basic Listing includes:

FREE web site NEW! A FREE 5-page web site that you can easily customize with your logo, text and links to other sites
Business name
Contact information, including address, phone and fax, web site, email
Service information such as hours of operation, accepted payment methods, services offered, and brands or products available for sale
You can add or update, for no charge, your business' name, contact information and the categories under which your business is listed."

Quotes:
"We are not only helping them leverage the Internet, but also adding depth and comprehensiveness to our local product for consumers," said Paul Levine, general manager of Yahoo Local...

The second objective is to improve Yahoo's Web site, said Rich Riley, vice president and general manager of Yahoo Small Business. Yahoo adds the service to its Yahoo Local and Yahoo Small Business sites. Small businesses get five Web pages for free, choose from different templates, then use a Site Wizard to guide them through creating a site. The site then is automatically integrated into the company's Yahoo Local listing."

Yahoo! Media Relations - Press Release Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources), a new comprehensive online resource center designed to help entrepreneurs succeed by offering approximately 1,000 articles on key business issues around topics such as marketing, legal and human resources."

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How To Measure A Blogger's Cred - or anyone elses...

How To Measure A Blogger's Popularity And Reach: The Big Jump - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings

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Interactive Media Embrace Blogs

www.clickz.com/: "Carat Interactive said it is tapping into the burgeoning blog phenomenon by launching a new practice focused on blog media and monitoring.

'We see it as the fastest growing area of the Internet,' said John Cate, vice president and national media director at Carat Interactive. 'We're interested in it, our clients are interested in it. We see it as a great opportunity for two-way communication between our clients and their consumers.'

The new practice will focus on three areas: blog advertising, blog creation, and blog monitoring. Operationally, it will fit into the media planning and buying group at Carat, which works with the creative and content group. Rather than having a dedicated team to handle blogging, Carat will share best practices throughout its offices and account managers in those offices will be responsible for building blogging initiatives. "

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Trojan Disguised as Microsoft Security Update

eweek.com: "Trojan Masquerades as Microsoft Security Update By Ryan Naraine:

"The e-mail-borne attack comes just days ahead of Microsoft's scheduled patch day and highlights a growing trend of using social engineering tactics to dupe users into downloading malicious files.

It purports to come from "Windows Update" (update@microsoft.com) and includes links pointing to an "Express Install: High Priority Updates For Your Computer."

If users follow the link in the e-mail and attempt to download the fake patch, a Trojan Horse is installed instead, allowing the attacker to hijack the computer remotely.

Sophos has identified the file as Troj/DSNX-05, a backdoor Trojan that runs in the background as a server process allowing a remote user (using a client program) to gain access and control over the machine.


Microsoft does not issue security warnings in this way—so users should be on their guard whenever they receive an e-mail like this," he added.

Sophos has posted disinfection instructions for the Trojan."

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Google top host for Web logs

Internet Daily: "Blogger top home for Web logs" Google's Blogger is hosting an estimated 8 million blogs, more than any of almost three dozen competing services. In second place is LiveJournal.com, with about 6.6 million accounts, according to research from Perseus Development Corp., a Web-based survey firm.

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Internet phone battle reviewd

Net Sense: "The battle to offer consumers phone services over Internet is heating up this spring and everyone from cable companies to phone carriers to Web giants is getting in on the act."

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Monday, April 11, 2005

fantomNews Archive � Blogging Anonymously His Way

fantomNews Amongst his top tips for keeping blogs et al private is the following gem: "You might also try to do all those dodgy things with your blog site the search engine optimization �white hat� crowd are so happy to get worked up about all the time. The intention being, of course, to actually get banned from the engines� indices � now is that applied iconoclasm, or what?"

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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Making money out of muck....

Products and Services

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Spammer is sentenced to 9 years by Virginia judge

marketwatch.com Announcements: "The first person convicted of felony spam charges in the U.S. was sentenced by a Virginia judge to nine years in prison, the Washington Post reported."

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Friday, April 08, 2005

Women outnumber men on line: report

MediaPost: "FEMALES NOW CONSTITUTE 51.6 PERCENT of the U.S. online population--up from 35 percent in 1997, according to an eMarketer report released Thursday. The report, 'Women Online in the U.S.: A Growing Majority,' predicts that women's online presence will continue to grow "

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Microsoft free Web logging service launch

Internet Daily: "Microsoft officially launched MSN Spaces, its free Web logging service, "

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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Future :: EPIC 2014

EPIC 2014

The source for info re semantic web stuff.....Prof. James A. Hendler: "This page is marked up for use by Semantic Web agents.
Try our new Experimental Semantic Web Site completely powered by Semantic Web technologies"

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Monday, April 04, 2005

Richest man in Wales via Google

icWales: "WALES has a new richest man - the financier who helped launch the internet search engine Google.
Michael Moritz, pictured, makes a shock appearance on The Sunday Times' Rich List this year. With a fortune of �1.35bn he has shot to the top as Wales' second billionaire, replacing Sir Terry Matthews as the richest Welsh person on the prestigious list."

icWales - Search engine's power pays off: "Google billionaire Mr Moritz, 51, a father-of-two, is a partner in Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. He became a director of Google after investing $12.5m in 1999.
Sequoia is one of the most successful private equity firms in IT and has a stake in Google worth about 2.7bn. As Sequoia's 'star player', Mr Moritz is expected to net the lion's share of that.

Mr Moritz worked previously as a journalist and writer. He is now based permanently in California.Richard Beresford, compiler of the Rich List described him as a financial 'genius'. He said, 'I don't know what he was brought up on in Cardiff but his brain for spotting these opportunities is phenomenal.'

The secretive world of private equity in which Mr Moritz works is notoriously difficult to pene-trate. But Mr Beresford said Mr Moritz 'is probably the best person in the world in spotting investment early'."

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Yahoo influences Hollywood

Forbes.com: Update 2: Yahoo Raises Profile With Hollywood Push Hype and hyperbole...: "analysts suggest a profound shift may be at work, with Yahoo using its enormous reach to force Hollywood studios, among other video creators, to produce programming with the Internet in mind.

Yahoo can offer up a worldwide audience of more than 300 million - a number that some analysts say could reach 1 billion by the end of the decade...

Yahoo says it's in the earliest stages of developing its entertainment strategy and thus would not make an executive available to discuss it with The Associated Press.

But the company has made it clear that one of Braun's mandates is to find new ways for Yahoo's music, games, news, sports, kids and other divisions to draw more visitors...

Ultimately, whether Yahoo morphs into an online TV network or produces its own content its strategy all boils down to keeping visitors within Yahoo's virtual walls as much as possible.

Said Martin Pyykkonen, an analyst with Janco Partners Inc.: 'The more content and interesting things they put there, the longer they keep you there, the more opportunities they have to monetize you through advertising.' "

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The One Year Internet Marketing Challenge - Mr 500 - How To Make $500 Per Day

Mr 500 - How To Make $500 Per Day Straight into my favs...
Mr 500 wrote:

"Your Mission, Mr 500 - should you choose to accept it - is this:
From April 1st 2005 to March 31 2006 - launch 3 different marketing projects based on three different business models; all with the aim of (each) generating $500 per day in revenue at the end of the project period.
Report your findings on this blog.
Thats it. Piece of cake...

I will dedicate one full year of my life to the interesting world of internet marketing - and report the results along the way to anyone who is interested. (And I have left my day job so I’d better make some money. Don’t try this at home folks… I am getting a bit nervous…)"

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