Internet Marketing & SEO

Yahoo opens up social networking site MASH

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | Internet News, Yahoo | 2 Comments

San Francisco (CA) - Yahoo has launched a beta version of Mash, its latest attempt at social networking.

According to the site’s official blog, the service allows users to create their own profile using a variety of custom design tools, and they are able to interact with their friends’ profiles as well. These are the same basic features that outline Myspace and Facebook. Yahoo Mash also lets users create “starter profiles” for their friends to make it easier for them to get started with the service.

“Of course, there are extensive privacy controls in Mash and you set the boundaries that you’re comfortable with,” said Yahoo Mash developer Will Aldrich.

Currently Mash is in a beta stage and it is open only to people who have received an invitation. Those enrolled in Mash can also send invites to any other Yahoo user, much in the same fashion as when Google’s Gmail service first launched.

This is not the first entry into social networking for the online company. Yahoo 360 in the early part of 2005, but it failed to capture much of the fire that spread into Myspace and Facebook. Yahoo has not announced any plans to shut down Yahoo 360, so for now both it and Mash are actively supported.

MASH

Mash is currently an invitation-only beta service.The odds are good that one of your friends is in here already. Hit them up for an invite!

Already Mashing? Sign in.

You need invitation to use it in Beta

Google bans *everyone* for “make money online” Really?

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 | Google, SEO, Search Industry | 1 Comment

Well, You can see yourself
No SERPs but ads are viewing…:D

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&num=%30%30&q=make+money+online

It will work only when SERPs number changed to num=100

Currently These are only for google.com try other like google.co.in, google.au, works fine

Referring to Digitalpoint user post

Google Video Shutting Down

Friday, September 14th, 2007 | Google, YouTube | 1 Comment

Google have announced that Google video will be shutting down.

Google is shutting down its premium video service, leaving users who have bought or rented content unable to view their videos in the future.

In an e-mail to users the web giant said that money spent on videos would not be refunded.

Customers are being offered fixed credit on the firm’s online payment system, Google Checkout, instead.

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Bebo Adds Yahoo as a Friend

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 | Internet News, Yahoo | 1 Comment

Yahoo’s corporate culture is about caution and measured risks. And so it is perfectly in keeping with the way the company has been run that it announced today that it has been chosen to sell advertising in the United Kingdom and Ireland for Bebo, the most popular social network in Britain.

These days the competition to sell ads for big Web sites is a very dangerous game. Google right now can earn more selling ads on a given site than any of its rivals. It has better technology, more sites and more advertisers bidding, which creates a virtuous circle bidding up prices. The only way for Microsoft and Yahoo to break in is to build better advertising systems — which they are doing — and get bigger networks, which in turn will draw more advertisers.

Google knows that its rivals have an incentive to lose money on some big deals just to get scale, so it too has been overbidding to keep plum sites out of their hands. The biggest example was MySpace, where Google promised $900 million over three years, far more than it expected to earn, according to people involved in the negotiations. Microsoft, which has more cash than Fort Knox, later won the contract to sell ads on Facebook.

Yahoo looked at these deals, but just couldn’t face saying goodbye to so much money. It’s hard to imagine that the underlying economics are any different in the case of Bebo — I’m sure both Google and Microsoft would bid. The terms were not disclosed, but the scale is smaller, so what I assume will be a loss for Yahoo will be easier for it to swallow.

Free iPhone unlocking solution released for download

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 | Apple, Internet News | 1 Comment

A team of hackers attempting to unlock Apple Inc.’s iPhone for use with GSM-based wireless carriers other than AT&T appear to have finally succeeded in their efforts, and last night began distributing their solution as a free download via several websites.

Dubbed “iUnlock,” the SIM unlocking tool represents the fruits of a multi-month effort on the part of the unofficial “iPhone Dev Team” — a community of independent contributors who’ve banded together to discover and develop additional uses for the inaugural Apple handset.

Unlike commercial efforts from groups such as iPhoneSIMfree and UniquePhones, iUnlock was released Tuesday evening as a free download, and has since begun to spread rapidly across the web. Several iPhone owners and members of Apple online communities claim to have tested and verified the solution as genuine.

In its current state, however, the iUnlock solution is not for the technically-challeneged or faint-of-heart. It requires a “jailbroken” iPhone, rudimentary knowledge of using a unix terminal, experience with SFTP and some patience. Some tutorials on how to apply the hack have also begun to crop up, but they’re currently rough around the edges.

Several more user-friendly installation guides are believed to be under development at the present time, as is a version of iUnlock that will be based around an installer for the less technical savvy.

Unlocking mobile phones for one’s own use, for instance to place calls with a different carrier, appears to be legal under an exemption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. However, the same may not be true for the specific steps taken by the iPhone Dev Team’s unlocking solution, which has not been scrutinized in that regard.

Because the iPhone is GSM-based, U.S. consumers who unlock the phone will be limited in their alternative wireless carrier choices to just T-Mobile, the only other national GSM-based service provider outside of AT&T. Internationally, however, the unlocking solution would seem more compelling due to the proliferation of GSM-based networks and carriers overseas.

AppleInsider assumes no responsibility for any damage or legal issues caused by readers who install iUnlock, and is providing links to the downloadable files and associated tutorials strictly for information purposes. AppleInsider is also not linking directly to the iPhone Dev Team’s wiki site in this article per its request that publications refrain from doing so out of server stability concerns. Readers can find the website easily by searching Google.

Unlock application

-Giz Mirror (Associated Report)iUnlock tutorials

-ModMyiPhone version
-Hackint0sh version
-FreeiPhoneUnlock version
-iphone.unlock.no version

-iphone.unlock.no version

Sun and Microsoft Team on Windows Server, Virtualization

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 | Internet News, Microsoft & MSN | No Comments

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems announced a new agreement this morning whereby Sun will serve as an official Windows Server manufacturer. That’s not too earth shattering, considering Sun customers can already run Windows on the company’s x64 servers. Nevertheless, the new agreement supposedly expands that interoperability, with both companies providing additional software and support for each others’ server systems.

Additionally, the two companies will work together on Mediaroom, Microsoft’s IPTV software platform. According to Sun, AT&T’s U-verse digital TV service has selected the company for one of world’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Mediaroom platform, which will include both server and client software.

John Fowler (pictured right), Sun’s Executive Vice President of Systems, said that because the company’s server business is continuing to grow at a rapid rate, it simply made sense for Sun to sell and support pre-installed Windows Server 2003.

“One hundred percent of our customers use Solaris and Windows, so it was a very natural thing for us to work together on,” Fowler explained during a teleconference this morning. In addition to the tech aspect of the agreement, Fowler also said that an interoperability lab will be established on the Microsoft campus.

The purpose of the lab will be to ensure that Solaris runs well as a guest on Microsoft virtualization technologies and that Windows Server runs well on Sun’s virtualization technologies. Windows Server 2003 will be available on Sun x64 systems within 90 days, both companies said.

Microsoft Introduces a Trio of New Mice and a Pair of Webcams

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 | Internet News, Microsoft & MSN | No Comments

Microsoft announces new mice and webcams

Today Microsoft has announced a pair of new LifeCam webcams and a trio of new mice aimed at notebook users. The new webcams include the LifeCam VX-7000, which is intended for desktop use with its universal attachment base.

The design of the clamp allows the camera to sit closer to the display for a more integrated look. The VX-7000 has a 2.0 megapixel sensor that allows it to shoot high quality video and uses an all glass element lens.

The camera can also shoot still images at 7.6-megapixels interpolated and uses a 71-degree wide-angle lens. The VX-7000 also automatically adjusts for low-light conditions and will retail for $99.95 in September. Microsoft also announced the LifeCam NX-3000, which is for mobile use with notebook computers. The NX-3000 has a max resolution of 640 x 480 and can shoot still images at 1.3-megapixels. The lens swivels to allow notebook users to adjust the camera for ideal shooting conditions. Microsoft also included video effects for video calls and included a carry case. The NX-3000 will be available in September as well for $59.95.

The trio of new mice Microsoft announced starts with the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000. Microsoft is billing the mouse as the industry’s first notebook mouse to include 1GB of flash-based storage. The flash memory is inside the USB wireless transceiver. The mouse uses a magnetic recharging cable that connects to the end of the USB adapter and to the mouse allowing for charging without the need for a dock.

The 8000 gives you the option of using the wireless adapter or with the flip of a switch, turning the mouse into a Bluetooth device for use sans USB adapter on notebooks equipped with internal Bluetooth. The mobile Memory Mouse 8000 will be available in October 2007 for $99.95.

Other new mice from Microsoft include the Wireless Notebook Mouse 7000 and Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000. Both these mice will retail for $49.99 each with the 5000 available in October and the 7000 available in September. The 7000 uses 2.4GHz wireless technology, connects via a USB adapter to your PC, and has built-in Vista shortcuts. The 5000 is a Bluetooth mouse requiring no transceiver for use with notebooks that have Bluetooth built-in. The last desktop mouse announced by Microsoft was the SideWinder Gaming Mouse.

Allowed sites now an option in Google AdSense

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | Contextual Advertising, Google Adsense & Adwords | No Comments

Google is acknowledging that this is a concern for publishers. From their help center:

We’ve added the Allowed Sites feature because we’ve learned that some AdSense publishers are concerned about potentially malicious behavior from others on the web, such as stealing their ad code and placing it on an inappropriate site. By offering this feature, we allow AdSense publishers more control over which sites or URLs can have their AdSense code.

The two selections in the account are “Allow any site to show ads for my account” or “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account”. Then you get the option of adding domains or subdomains to your approve list.

If you belong to any revenue sharing forums or blogs, be sure to include those URLs in the allowed list. But do be aware that your ads will no longer show on cached copy pages or archive.org unless you add those URLs as well (including all the Google cache IP addresses).

However, there is one VERY odd thing about this new feature. If your AdSense code is on a site that is not on your approved list, ads will still show. Which means while your ads are displayed, you won’t get any revenue from the clicks (or show impressions either). I think a better option would have been to show PSAs or alternate ads if one is specified, although I suppose that might not be the best option for user experience, although it might mean we get to see some new PSAs other than the Katrina fund one.

Domain Fraudster Faces 20 Years In Jail

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | Domain Names, Internet Marketing | 1 Comment

A man in Nevada is facing a possible 20 years in jail after trying to defraud people out of their domain names. David Scali pleaded guilty in court to a charge of mail fraud after being caught out in the scam.

Scali registered an email under a false name and pretended to be an intellectual property lawyer, threatening $100,000 lawsuits unless domain name holders signed over their property within 48 hours.

The man targeted websites with similar names to popular sites. When internet users mistype URLs the traffic these sites generate can be used to sell advertising on the misspelt sites, a practice known as domain-squatting or typo-squatting.

http://www.vnu.co.uk/vnunet/news/2198454/cybersquatter-faces-twenty

Netscape Relocates Social Site to New Domain

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | Domain Names, Internet News | No Comments

Netscape Relocates Social Site to New Domain
Netscape.com will return to original news format

The Netscape social news experience that you are currently using today will be migrated and revealed soon at http://www.propeller.com/. We’re working hard behind the scenes to ensure a smooth transition before we officially launch at this new destination.
It is important to us that you feel empowered to choose how you want to consume your news and participate in the community. As we mentioned in a recent post, the Netscape.com site will soon be redirected to the new Netscape portal, a more traditional and editorially-driven news experience. It’s already live, so you can check it out now if you haven’t already. You’ll notice some elements of our social news site there in short order, so that it will be easy for you to go back and forth and engage in each if you like.

http://blog.netscape.com/2007/09/11/social-news-update/