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Google Adsense Now Permits 3 Ad Link Units
Google Adsense may be many bloggers’ best friend, but their communication is pretty poor. I’ve been using Google Adsense for nearly 2 years now, and I’ve never received a newsletter or an update. Instead, I have to rely on the blogosphere for news.
The latest change to Google Adsense’s TOS is that 3 Ad [...]
CD Wow Taking CD Battle To European Courts
After being fined £41m and told to stop selling Cheap CDs in the UK, CD Wow are very bravely going to fight on and take their case to the European Courts. If you missed the original story, CD Wow were fined and forced by the UK recording industry to stop giving customers a good [...]
5Jun2007 | Everton | 3 comments | ContinuedI’ve Installed The AGLOCO Toolbar And It’s Just Sitting There…
Well, after getting the heads up from Deepak that the AGLOCO toolbar was available for download I decided to take the plunge and install it. Installation went smoothly enough, and it attached itself to the bottom of my screen without any fuss.
The problem is, the AGLOCO toolbar doesn’t seem to be doing anything. I’ve been [...]
StumbleUpon Falls To eBay For $75m - Thumbs Up Or Down?
Ibrahim just buzzed me with the news that eBay have acquired StumbleUpon for $75m, creating yet another set of .dot com millionaires. According to a eBay spokesperson, StumbleUpon has approximately 2.3 million users and delivers about 5 million recommendations every day.
To be honest I’m a bit disappointed that StumbleUpon decided to get into bed [...]
What’s Your Favourite Firefox Extension?
If you could only install only one Firefox Extension what would it be?
31May2007 | Everton | 14 comments | ContinuedScriptovia.com - New Site For Students To ‘Share’ Work
A new startup, Scriptovia.com announced its existence to the world this week. Scriptovia.com provides an area where students from all over the world can ‘collaborate and share resources’. Hmm, sounds a lot like a site to where essays can be downloaded to avoid doing the work yourself to me.
Aseem Badshah, [...]
Last.fm Sold for £140m
Last.fm was sold yesterday for £140m to CBS Corporation, making it the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition. Great news for the company, as Last.fm had definitely reached the point where it needed an owner with deeper pockets to fund its continued expansion.
31May2007 | Everton | 1 comment | ContinuedCD-Wow Fined £41m And Told To Stop Selling Cheap CDs
I just spotted a very sad story on the BBC, reporting on how UK Online retailer CD-Wow must pay £41m to British record companies after breaking a deal to stop selling illegally imported cheap albums in the UK. CD-Wow were selling albums for as low as £6.99, which is roughly half the [...]
30May2007 | Everton | 12 comments | ContinuedHas Anyone Used The AGLOCO Toolbar Apart From John Chow?
Ok, here’s a question for the approximate 7,000 people who will see this post today - Has anyone seen the AGLOCO toolbar in the wild apart from John Chow? AGLOCO claimed a few weeks ago that they were starting a staggered rollout to people who had registered for the service, so surely some of [...]
30May2007 | Everton | 7 comments | ContinuedBloggers Face-Off: JohnTP Vs Everton Blair
Well, I guess it had to happen eventually. I’m currently being featured in Daniel’s popular Bloggers Face-Off series. This week yours truly is going head-2-head with JohnTP. May the best blog win - only kidding!!
30May2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued



