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Adsense TOS Update

Jan 18, 2007Comments

Google has announced an update to the Adsense Program Policy. (Take a look at the new version)
I can only imagine the uproar that’s coming with this from site owners that use other advertising besides Google.
Competitive Ads and Services In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be [...]

Netflix Lets Subscribers Watch Movies Online

Jan 16, 2007Comments

Today Netflix announced a new feature that will allow subscribers the option of instantly watching movies on their PC’s. Yes I say PC because a Windows OS and High-Speed connection will be required.
What a great new feature though by one of my favorite sites online! I’ve been a Netflix subscriber now for well [...]

IE7 Reaches 100 Million Installs

Jan 15, 2007Comments

Tony Chor announced over on the IEBlog that IE7 has reached 100 Million installs on January 8th.
He goes on to state that over 25% of all visitors to websites in the US use IE7, the second most used browser after IE6. Of course because of the content of this site you can imagine that [...]

Is Your Site More Popular with Men or Women?

Jan 11, 2007Comments

I’m sure you would like to have an idea of the demographics of your website visitors. If so, Microsoft adCenter Labs has the tool for you.
The tool can be used to predict a visitor’s age, gender and other demographic info based on their online behavior. The report shoots you back a General Distribution [...]

Web 2.0 Deathlist

Jan 6, 2007Comments

Over on Wisdump Scrivs started a Web 2.0 Deathlist. The point is that if you could kill off three Web 2.0 companies, which ones would you pick?
My list is:

MySpace - It just seems that every time I look at a page from there it reminds me of the 90’s. As others have posted in the [...]

Online Feed Readers - What’s with them?

Jan 4, 2007Comments

So this evening I wanted to look into using an online feed reader as I was getting tired of having to update my bookmarks on one computer or another everytime I subscribed to new feeds.
In the past I’ve used Bloglines but it just didn’t feel right. I’ve also given Rojo a run [...]