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Why Yahoo is the worst company on the Internet

So I got an email today, saying that Yahoo has decided to terminate Rightmedia, which it purchased not to long ago.
Perhaps terminate is the wrong word, they’re basically going to end all existing Right Media services for small publishers, which is most of what the company offers.
Coming on the heels of their implosion of [...]

People Change, Things Stay the Same

Woe for the sexy days of SEO. In watching the Watchmen this weekend there is Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” during the opening credits, and that song fits my mood now. Situations have changed, but more so I have changed rather than the times, and I imagine I’m not alone.
SEO used to be [...]

Copyright Clearance Center, Not a Scam

When you start officially registering various forms of intellectual property, be they copyrights or trademarks, you’ll get a lot of junk mail. Not unlike the junk mail anyone who registers a domain name gets where some unscrupulous companies try to confuse you into thinking that you owe them money to renew your domain membership, you [...]

Google Malware Filter Goes Haywire, Internet Breaks, Google Slanders Millions

This morning Google’s malware filter went berserk. This is a feature where if Google detects that a website hosts a malicious download, it will put a barrier between Google search results and that website. This barrier explains that this site has badware hosted on it, and that the user may want to choose a different [...]

Backup Your Data

The world recently conspired against me to make my hard drive on my primary computer fail, and fail big time.
Thankfully, I had backups… my backups weren’t as extensive as I would have liked and I did lose some stuff, but overall, my most important stuff was backed up and secure.
How horrible would it have been [...]

User Tracking Isn’t So Bad

There has been much privacy broohaha for the past years about privacy and user tracking. Specifically how ad companies will “track” users across websites.
This, I think, has mostly been overblown, and really, is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I’m taking my wife to Vegas this Spring and these past two weeks I’ve been [...]

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for 44b

Read it up here.
Honestly, I don’t understand this move.
Yahoo sucks. Their search engine sucks, their advertising service sucks. Who here doesn’t think Microsoft Adcenter is better than Yahoo Search Marketing? I believe until just very recently YSM didn’t even allow you to opt out of their syndicated results, so to advertise on their search results [...]

My New Nutrition Site

I finally have something to blog about, after awhile of not getting any inspiration. I’ve finally launched a new site (more or less).
Nutriquiz.com a nutrition quiz site.
I am really into nutrition, both as I like to cook and I like to look good naked. So I’ve been “into” nutrition for awhile and was hit with [...]

Another Day, Another Death Threat

This is a dangerous profession we’re in I guess.
A few years ago on my literature site forum there was a problem member, he was banned a few times, would reregister, I’m sure all the forum admins who read this know the type I’m talking about. One of the things I’d do to find his new [...]

Finding Programmers

When I asked what I should blog about one person mentioned finding programmers, so I’ll talk about that a little in this post.
I’ve had a hard time finding reliable programmers to do work for me. Invariably they take longer than they say, sometimes much much longer, and 50% of the time they tend to just [...]

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