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Sometimes You Shoot Yourself in the Foot and Don’t Realize It Until Later (Affiliate Marketing)
I have been having a phenomenal month with Amazon.com due to a couple of RC Helicopter Reviews that I did for Air Hogs Havoc Heli and Air Hogs Laser Battle. I have search engine results for both and current have over a 20% conversion rate for people who click through to Amazon.
There was [...]
iPhone + Google Reader + Digg - Playing Together Better Today
Well Google Reader, Digg, and the iPhone seem to be getting along better today. Then links to the original articles have re-appeared when clicking on a digg article from Google Reader.
I am still getting the “Bad Request” error in Google Reader when trying to mark things as read. Due this I only try once a [...]
iPhone + Google Reader + Digg are Not Playing Well Together
I have been using Google Reader on my iPhone since almost the first day that I got my iPhone. It has worked great up until a few days ago when people started talking about it getting “updated” for the iPhone.
Since the “update” I get continual “Bad Reqest” errors when trying to mark all posts on [...]
Outlook Webmail Sucks Compared to Gmail
My company just ‘upgraded’ from Exchange 5.5 to 2007 which includes an upgrade to it’s webmail feature. Version 5.5 as you may guess was so 90’s so I was expecting the 2007 version to be much better.
It sucks just as bad.
The first thing is that there is no search. We live in the age of [...]
Zookoda - Blog Email Subscriptions Done Right
I do not if anyone noticed but I recently removed the email subscription box in my sidebar. The reason for it was that it felt a little dated and I am pretty sure most people were subscribing to my feed as opposed to wanting email updates. I pretty much thought that the idea of email [...]
Companies and Slow Releases
Protopage just released their V3 of their customer start page.
I started using Protopage as my start page near the beginning of the year as it was nice to have all me RSS feeds and links that I use daily all in one place. I would check their blog on a pretty regular basis and it [...]
Good Resource for Starting a Web Hosting Company
I have a reseller account that I use for the couple of customers that I have design sites for over the years. It makes me enough money to buy some toys throughout the year and I also get to host as many of my personal sites as I want for free.
I have be tempted to [...]
WordPress.com is Slowly Coming Back Up
Still no word about what happened but WordPress.com looks as though it is slowly coming back online although it is running pretty slow.
I can now get into my dashboard and see the front page of my blog.
Hope they fix whatever is causing this soon.
Technorati: WordPress.com, WordPress, Blogging, Internet Outage
WordPress.com is Down
Wow, I went to post something on one of my WordPress.com blogs and my site did not come up. I thought at first that maybe my site got pulled but then I tried my other site - no dice.
I then tried the just wordpress.com and the same message -
503 Service Unavailable
Whoops!
We just got a “503 [...]
The Browser War Takes a New Turn - IE vs Firefox
Well within the last week both Microsoft and Mozilla has launched the latest versions of their browsers - Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0.
The differences that I have noticed in both of the new browsers is minimal. Internet Explorer now offers tabbed browsing, some CSS fixes, and some anti-phishing tools. Firefox new offerings are spell [...]
