www.haggle4me.co.uk gone – shame
Haggle4me was a site where you went when you wanted to buy something (online) but didn’t know if you had found the best price. You entered the details of what you wanted and the best price you had...
View ArticleOut the Google sandbox after exactly 6 months
I have a site consistently getting around 700 uniques a day – has been for a long time, it’s a long story about the creation of the site but suffice it to say, most of the traffic comes from Google...
View ArticleGaming Google Trends
1. Pick a phrase (e.g. “coupons for online savings”) 2. Set up a machine to continually search Google for it over and over again (99% – Conroe, TX) 3. Start writing blog posts on that subject 4. Google...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Elmo Live
Wouldn’t it be great of someone released a generic, programmable robot that was designed to be covered. Something like http://www.robocommunity.com/forum/thread/14258/Elmo-Live-Dissected/ (which is the...
View ArticleWhy does Google reveal pagerank?
Google spends a lot of time and effort trying to stop people selling links on high pageRank websites so why does it reveal the pagerank? I see no need for it to be revealed, website owners will know...
View ArticleNext versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox to have built in advert blocking
OK, so maybe not (or maybe?) but what if they did?, Microsoft’s biggest rivals Google and Yahoo derive pretty much all their income from online advertising, disable that and those 2 will go down the...
View ArticleDid Sitemeter forget to reregister sitemeter.com
Just went to sitemeter.com and it’s not Site Meter Whois info shows the domain name sitemeter.com was due to expire 03-April-2013, looks like someone else registered it. Could be time to change all my...
View ArticleUpdate: Sitemeter.com is back (nearly)
As of this morning, sitemeter’s whois information is back to what it should be. So it looks like they were lucky and got their domain name back quickly. If you’re still being redirected to the...
View ArticleCommunications Tax On Early Termination Fee at Sprint
It took a long time and a lot of digging but I finally found the answer to why a communications tax would be charged on top of an early termination fee. The answer is yes, it is a charge levied by the...
View ArticleBitcoins – How much are they worth?
The interesting thing about bitcoins is that for them to succeed as a currency the value isn’t important, what’s important is stability. If I exchange $10,000 USD for 1 bitcoin then that’s OK as long...
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