Is it possible for the medium sized guys to make money? You bet. Network Solutions, bought for $20 million in 2003, was just sold for $800 million three years later. And amazingly enough, this deal was done by a Persian – Iranian American Jahm Najafi. So do the Iranians know how to play a poker […]
Archives for May 2007
Should Software Be Donation Only | Minimum Donation Levels
Philip Dow’s Journler Philip Dow is the developer of the very well received Mac PIM (personal information manager) Journler about donationware. His application Journler had an open donation policy for personal use. Contribute whatever you like. A single commercial use license was/is $25. Phil is going full-time as a developer now and is starting to […]
Why aren’t Ad Agencies buying More Search Companies
Some gentlemen search colleagues are thunderstruck by the acquisition of 24/7 Real Media by advertising holding company WPP for $649 million (a tidy sum it is – congratulations 24/7 – although I’ve always hated your technology). Raycam wonders why more ad agencies aren’t snapping up the smaller search houses. It’s simple. All the assets go […]
XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only – WordPress Error
Lost an hour today to trying to debug Ecto posting to this weblog (if you’re not using Ecto, you should consider it). I was constantly getting this error: XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only Finally I wrote up a nice little support ticket for Dreamhost with all the details. Surprisingly I got the fix back […]
Social network SEO spammers complain Digg closes playground
Some of my SEO colleagues are bemoaning their lack of success in getting their annoying marketing materials to the front page of Digg. Bravo to Digg.
AdSense Arbitrage Coming to an End – Internet Marketing
It’s official – Google will be kicking the AdSense spammers off the network. What AdSense spam is are those sites which you arrive on via either organic search or PPC results (usually the former) and you find nothing but RSS feeds or chopped up articles on a very basic template. The sites rarely have any […]
Stats: Statcounter versus Mint
We’ve compared two real-time web analytics services to find out which one understands site’s visitors better.
Redesign the WordPress Login via a Plugin
The WordPress login page just doesn’t look good. What to do about redesigning it? Two solutions.
Shopping Cart for WordPress: WP e-Commerce
Just discovered a very nice shopping cart for WordPress…. We will take WordPress from weblog software to CMS, bypassing bloat.The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind.