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| Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Effect on OpenID |
Yahoo! has some experience in merging identity systems. It has switched Flickr users over to its unified Yahoo! ID system, for example. But merging the hundreds of millions of accounts across the Yahoo! and Microsoft web ecosystems will make the Flickr job seem like child's play. OpenID, though, could make merging the two systems a relative snap. OpenID is a decentralized identity management system that lets users log into multiple sites using a single set of sign on credentials. The idea is that if everyone supported OpenID, you'd only have to remember one username and password for all your various accounts. Emre Sokullu wrote a great overview of the system last year. Both companies have dabbled in OpenID support. Last February Bill Gates told a group at the RSA conference that Microsoft would collaborate with JanRain, Sxip, and VeriSign on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace. Earlier this month Yahoo! gave OpenID its biggest bump by becoming an OpenID provider. But while Yahoo! is letting its roughly 250 million users make their accounts OpenID compatible, and thus log into other sites using their Yahoo! ID, they're not authenticating OpenIDs from outside providers. That would be necessary in order to use OpenID to merge the sign on systems of Microsoft and Yahoo! If Micosoft became an OpenID provider via its Live ID system, as Yahoo! has done, and both companies authenticated outside OpenID account on their systems, then users could log into any Microsoft or Yahoo! service with the ID they already have. All that would be left would be a utility to let people link two accounts (i.e., tell OpenID that when I log into Hotmail with the Yahoo! ID I use for Flickr I want to see the Hotmail account I've had for 10 years). As far as I know, this isn't very difficult and is something both companies have experience with from past acquisitions. Full support of OpenID by both Microsoft and Yahoo! would be a huge win for OpenID, as well. When Yahoo! announced support of OpenID a couple of weeks ago, TechCrunch reported that there were 120 million active OpenID accounts. Adding Yahoo!'s 250 million accounts triples that number. I'm not sure how many accounts are in the Live ID system, but with over 260 million Hotmail users and over 240 million Windows Live Messenger users, you can bet that it's a lot. So how likely is it that Microhoo adopts OpenID? My best guess is: pretty likely. |
The takeover of Yahoo! by Microsoft is almost a foregone conclusion (see | Poll: Has Google Lost The Plot By Attacking Microsoft's Bid For Yahoo? |
Further, Drummond queries whether Microsoft-Yahoo could "extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?". Specifically he referred to email, IM, and web-based services. He also says that the bid threatens “the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.” It's an incredible piece of PR and, some might suggest, fear-mongering. But let's throw these questions open. Let us know in the following poll what you think about Google's response to Microhoo!. UPDATE: Microsoft has responded to the Google blog post. In a statement from Brad Smith, General Counsel, Microsoft states that "the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising"; areas where of course Google is number one. The lawyers are sniping, this battle is getting heated... |
While I was flying halfway across the world, | car confessions the aftermath |
Two days after the broadcasting of jorans confession its time to sum some things up. When joran played deff and dumb and didnt speak he got arrested twice, Now that he confessed of atleast dumping the body in the ocean he "doesnt" get arrested. Mr de vries was going to apear in goodmorning usa, ophra, larry king and perhaps a few other shows. But its not going to happen because peter r. de vries isnt going to give away any exlusive rights. |
| case holloway solved |
Dutch crime reporter "peter r de vries" claims to have solved the holloway case, The whole story will be telt in his weekly crime show on dutch television this coming sunday. The dutch bloggers of Vkmag.com also found an open backdoor in the site of mr de vries and pulled out this page that shows something like joran v/d sloot confessing the murder on the girl. Holy crap!! dont get me wrong but why does it take a crime reporter to solve a case instead the local justice department that oviously cant handle this kind of cases. |
| Myanmar Says Constitution Draft Is Ready - The Associated Press | ||
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| Mr. Skin Minute |
Mr. Skin fast forwards to the good bits. Runtime: 1 min 16 sec |
| CLEAR Registered Traveler System To Improve; Airport Security Competitors Coming! |
In my past post, Using CLEAR To Clear Airport Security -- This Is Efficient?, I covered what a joke it was that after being biometrically verified as myself, I still had to show the TSA a picture idea. In an email today from CLEAR, it sounds like that hassle is going away -- along with other promised improvements. In writing this up, I was also amazed to discover that competing registered traveler programs will be coming. From the newsletter:
Now if only I could convince CLEAR of the illogical requirement that I carry a card with me when I have always in my possession my eyes and fingers, which they use to verify that I'm me. |
| Fire Red Sunrise Over Newport |
The Santa Ana winds are gone, with the wind blowing inland from off the ocean. But the smoke is still out there, turning the rising sun fire red"
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| Fans await return of Star Wars |
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| Matlin on 'Dancing' partner: 'He's my music' |
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| Links for 03/18/2008 |
NYT: Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage.  |
| Sony Ericsson warns of lower profit as sales fall |
Sony Ericsson has issued a profit warning for the first quarter of 2008 as slowing growth in the mid-to-high end mobile phone market affects sales. via Shropshire Star |
| Sprint and Verizon Phones Go Global |
| Think you can't roam in Europe with a CDMA phone? Think again. These hybrid handsets will keep you connected abroad.
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| Verizon Explains New Open Device Policy |
| Verizon Wireless is holding their Open Development conference in New York City today, outlining a radical new direction for a wireless carrier which has previously strictly controlled the devices on its network.
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| AccuWeather.com Mobile Web Site Shatters Records in February |
| Here's more data to support the growth in mobile web usage: February was a record-breaking month for the AccuWeather.com mobile web site. The site chalked up a new monthly record with 32,760,743 page impressions in February, beating the previous record of 31,643,961 set in January 2008. The mobile site also set a new record for daily impressions with 1,792,492 on February 12th, beating the previous record of 1,527,102 set in the same month on February 5th. Already rated among the top ten mobile brands, AccuWeather.com delivers the most accurate and up-to-date weather on the mobile web. AccuWeather.com recently released a new version of the mobile web site, enhanced with severe weather warnings, AccuWeather 15-Day and Hour-by-Hour local forecasts, weather news and blogs. ?AccuWeather.com appreciates the loyalty of our mobile users in achieving this milestone,? said Jim Candor, AccuWeather.com?s Senior Vice President of New Media. ?We look forward to continuing to deliver valuable weather information to break these new records in the coming months.? To check out the site, simply type accuweather.com into your mobile browser. |
| 2008 Issue #01/20 Lamborghini Reventon. |
 damn how hawt is the lamborghini reventon. this one is issue 1 of 20. amazing flickr set from sinner man's. I'm off to the gym and challenge some of bzr energy of the second half of week. Very strange : Like the Pies beating Geelong last nite. It had looked for weeks like Geelong would be beaten, but by 86 points, wasnt expected. My week's kinda been like that. I think i'm gonna dive into the footy : redhill match today as rye has a bye, and the dees tomorrow who will lose by 86 points-ish to @montys hawks. As VC Dave says : "The painful failures – those that keep me and other VCs I know up at night - are the investments that fail due to self-inflicted wounds. A competitor winds up owning what turns out to be a very large market. The other company simply moved faster and out-executed." |
| Ending Her Bid, Clinton Backs Obama (New York Times) |
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| Jim McKay, Pioneer Sports Broadcaster, Dies at 86 |
| Mr. McKay covered 12 Olympic Games and was the voice of the ABC sports anthology series �Wide World of Sports.� |
| Round 12 ShoeMoney Answers |
| Storm asks: Aside from great content, and if you had to pick one, what would you choose to concentrate more on in an effort to build traffic. Similar site backlinks Core SEO (page descriptions, tags etc) Social Networking (Digg, Stumble,Twitter) Cheers, Storm ShoeMoney: I would probably say the next priority would be getting people in front of the site. I [...] |
Aside from great content, and if you had to pick one, what would you choose to concentrate more on in an effort to build traffic.
Similar site backlinks Cheers, Storm ShoeMoney: I would probably say the next priority would be getting people in front of the site. I would say social media.
Dom asks: hey Jeremy,
If you bought a site from someone, would you think it more beneficial to: a) have a homepage with a high pagerank, and very low/0 for other pages b) have a homepage with a lower pagerank but other pages with a decent pagerank and why? Thanks ShoeMoney: Site links to all the pages, then I would hope the page rank would flow to those. If they aren’t doing interlinking, then I would hope the main page would have high pagerank.
Joe asks: What are some good verticals that have your attention right now?
ShoeMoney: UFC mixed martial arts, mobile, and international mobile. Dating, etc.
Bulbboy asks: How many pairs of shoes or footwear do you own?
I have about 10. ShoeMoney: 2
Allen asks: If you simultaneously became bankrupt and where then told by the doctor that you can only work for 2 hours per week or you will die, what would you do?
ShoeMoney: I would basically call up any company in the space and tell them I would do consulting for two hours a week. But if I went bankrupt, then what I’m doing isn’t really working, and I’m not worth anything. I would just do consulting or just blog.
My Awesome Blog asks: If you had to start an online business completely from scratch with a maximum $5,000 budget, do you think you could get the business up to $100 a day (I know, the magic number)?
If so, what would you recommend for others to do the same? ShoeMoney: Yea of course.
Jeff asks: Are you a Husker fan? I’ll assume you said yes…. Do you have a sky box or do you sit with the rest of us? I’ll assume you said yes again. Can I hang out in your sky box for the West Virginia game?
ShoeMoney: No. I have actually had tickets one time, but never made it. I like to tailgate, and that’s it. I used to be into sports in my early 20s, but not anymore.
Keyword Anchor and Do-Follow Blog asks: In your opinion, is it still possible to make a lot of money online?
Thanks Shoe! ShoeMoney: Yes.
Michael D asks: What methods do you engage to keep yourself and your crew focused on achieving goals and not getting burnt out on the dayd to day activities of your sites?
ShoeMoney: 1. We choose to do things we are excited about, and feel we would use ourselves. Like fighters.com site, we are huge fans of the sport. 2. We feel it’s a service that is badly needed. We are creating what we want, as fans. Basically we are building our own house, and selling it to everyone else. With shoemoney tools, we have used and are using now, and building it for other people. You can avoid a lot of those pitfalls, by hiring people that aren’t in it for the money so much, but more in it because its what they want to do. Its what they are interested in.
Giles asks: - From starting an unknown site to one that pays for itself, how long would it take you (without publicising it on SM)
- What do you spend your money on? ShoeMoney: We do a lot of things with no budget, that I never talk about or wouldn’t talk about on shoemoney.com. From way back when I first started, it took me 3 years. Now with the experience, I think with in a couple months I would be able to create a pretty profitable site. There are many opportunities now, like with wordpress you get free hosting.
Greg asks: Shoemoney, you said in a previous post that one of the keys to your success was creating great content — and making it easy to share.
What are the best ways to make it easy to share, and how do you encourage people to share? ShoeMoney: Give them an easy way to refer it to friends. And also with news readers and twitters, stumble this, dig this. Create those buttons and make it easy for people to share.
JBagley asks: Hey Shoe,
Ever been to South Africa? Yes or No, what do you think of it? ShoeMoney: No
Nick Throlson asks: Hey shoe what is your opinion on Market Leverage where do your see them in 5 years?
ShoeMoney: As far as personalities go, they seem very aggressive. They seem to understand how to get their name out there. From talking to some of the people behind the scenes, they are working on some really revolutionary things in the space. They got their name out there which is key, now they just need to back up everything they have been talking about. Which they are doing a great job at. They seem to be dominating the buzz throughout the blogosphere.
JumboCasher.com asks: looks like… from the quality of posts comming around!
ShoeMoney: Pass
Joe asks: Which fighting discipline do you think is the best to take and why.
ShoeMoney: I’m a big fan of jujitsu or judo. They are kind of closed combat styles. Odds are most fights if somebody would attack you, it will end up on the ground. Some form of advanced wrestling would be the most helpful.
Paulo Faustino asks: Hello Shoe,
I would like to ask you what is your favorite sport of the Olympic Games, and if you think that China could beat the USA in the medals board, this year? Bye ShoeMoney: I don’t think China will place in the top 50%. I don’t know, but I love watching basketball. The USA team is the most incredible allstar team assembled. Watching Lebron and Kobe is like watching the Harlem Globetrotters playing around with their opponents.
Andrew asks: I was reading your post about the robot.txt file and I notice with your robot.txt you have User-Agent: Googlebot listed twice, along with several identical disallows like /page/ , /feed/ and /category/ listed twice, is that how it should be?
ShoeMoney: Probably just a mistake.
Ricker asks: I hope I can squeeze TWO easy/shorties in here:
1) What are your best methods you use to get a user to share your site with someone else ? 2) How many active websites (making money) do you own ? Thanks. ShoeMoney: I think you need to have something worthwhile to share in the first place. Great content to start with. And a method to share.
More than I can count. A lot of them don’t make much, and some don’t make anything. This is more of a question for a one person operation, which I used to be. But now I just look at monthly reports.
Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net asks: With reference with your experience as an Affiliate MArketer, What kind of product would you believe that there are lots of opportunity of earning online.. Ie, Computers, Camera, Service, E-bok etc..
ShoeMoney: I would say all of them. There is opportunity in all of those areas. The ebook thing is probably less than any of them, but its pretty saturated.
Paul U asks: I want to buy a website but I don’t know a thing about it.
What is a BIN? How does it works? ShoeMoney: BIN in an auction setting, is Buy It Now. You just stop the auction now for a set price.
zxj asks: I want to know more about how to make advertiment. I am a new learner here.
ShoeMoney: Pass
Ganesh asks: What is the biggest disadvantage of being a teen entrepreneur?
ShoeMoney: I was never a teen entrepreneur. I was busy sleeping in and playing video games. I would imagine most of them have trouble dealing with companies because they aren’t 18. If you are a teen, go play, don’t be an affiliate marketer.
netmeg asks: Pardon me if this has been asked before, but who created your avatar? I’ve admired it for some time.
ShoeMoney: Dave Naylor. He’s an artist and really good friend of mine.
JumboCasher.com asks: I would think it is more because of the content and the daily blog readership, rather than just the RSS count. BTW the RSS count can be jacked up anyways…
ShoeMoney: Pass
Ari asks: where do you go to fix bugs in your wordpress blog? sometimes I get SQL errors or plugins that I want are acting up and conflicting and I don’t want to remove them, I just want them fixed!!
ShoeMoney: Most of the plugins I have written myself, or hacked. We have modified all the plugins we run, to do what we want. Between us, we squash all the bugs.
Dave asks: GSP or Penn? And are you the webmaster for matt hughes? I read you guys were working with him, then Dellanave said he lost him as a fan, then hughes gives you two a shoutout on his blog.
ShoeMoney: GSP wins that fight.
We’re not his webmaster. He has a guy named Nathan Rosario. We just host his site, provide the bandwith. Matt Hughes is an interesting guy, and recently gave us a shoutout on his blog. Which was cool.
nkog asks: I’d like to know what was the fastest you ever gotten a page to #1 search position in google? and how much work did it take you to get there. whats the first thing you should do to market a new site.
ShoeMoney: Its probably happened a lot faster than I’ve noticed it. Especially since Google has their minty fresh indexing. I’ve written things on my blog that have ranked number 1 for a pretty competitive phrase. As far as a new site, with our McLovin ID generator, it was ranking top 1 to 3 for McLovin and still does.
Shanker Bakshi asks: Hi Shoe,
In his recent post John told his readers that how you surpass his RSS readers counts in a contest held in October 2007. Is that true, did you really use “that” evil way to cross his RSS mark by creating fake number of 4000 RSS subscribers in a single day. I guess you haven’t told anything about that yet. Would you like to answer it now? ShoeMoney: Even John doesn’t know exactly how it happened. I waited till the last day and exploited a small thing in feedburner. I did email feedburner, and told them what I was going to do, and got a reply from the vice president that said it was ok. It was a small hole in the way they verify emails. And they asked me not to talk about it, until they had fixed it. And last I checked, it still wasn’t fixed. There are quite a bit of holes in feedburner that are being exploited now.
ShoeMoney Suport Line. haha asks: Wanting to add a blog to my existing e-commerce site. A. is it better to put a blog on it’s own domain or does it matter. can I put it as a sub domain off my e-commerce site? which is better as we get a lot of traffic to our main domain, but not sure what is best for adding a blog. adding a navigation tab for the blog off the main site, or starting with a new domain that the main site points too.
ShoeMoney: I would yield to Matt Cutts on the subject. You should always do it as a subfolder of the website. Like http://www.mattcutts.com/blog. For an SEO purpose many people will link to your main url and your blog url. From a navigational perspective, you should only use sub domains, if its clearly a separate part of the site.
JC asks: Shoe, have you ever flipped a house to make money?
ShoeMoney: No
Jonathan Villiard asks: Mr. Showmaker,
for the very first time, I will meet a big client (a bank) for a SEO proposal. I am very excited and stressed about all this. Would you be so kind as to wish me good luck? Thanks Jonathan ShoeMoney: Good Luck.
Israel asks: How often to you workout, and what do you do specifically during those workouts…cardio, lift, etc.
Eating wise, are you a stickler for what you eat or do you eat anything (limited due to the surgery you had)? ShoeMoney: I haven’t worked out for over a month. But I am going to get back into the routine starting today. Partially due to my new kid being born. Mondays I do chest, benchpress, overhead press and a few other exercises. Wednesdays we do legs, mostly walking lunges, squats, and straight leg deadlifts. On Fridays we do back, which is pullups, and seated rows, etc. Cardio is kind of hit or miss, try to run twice a week.
I don’t really have a restrictive diet. But I try to keep away from the fat, because with the surgery I had my body doesn’t absorb fat.
wesley asks: Name a niche you are wanting to get into.
ShoeMoney: We pretty much do anything we want, so…
Jerry asks: Shoe,
How would you advise new bloggers on gaining back links? What are some of the techniques you would recommend? ShoeMoney: Write passionately. The more you can write honestly and from the heart, people will want to link to your content. For one it will be original, because its your own thoughts. For the most part, be you. If you are just trying to write for money, you probably won’t get anywhere. I wrote on shoemoney.com for a year and half without ever thinking I could make any money off of it.
Melvin asks: Jeremy when do you consider nofollowing or dofollwing a link on a blog post? any explanantion?
ShoeMoney: Its almost like an endorsement, so sometimes when I want you to easily get to the site but I don’t want to be associated with them I will use a nofollow. It tells the search engine that hey I’ve met this dude, but I’m not vouching for him.
Johny B asks: Adwords question - if some of my keywords become inactive due to google required minimum bid becoming higher than my maximum bid - what should I do with them?
Delete, pause or something else? ShoeMoney: If you aren’t going to change anything else, I would delete it. If you are going to change the ad copy to get a better click through ratio, you’re going to have to pay more for a while. But eventually it will come back down. If you can pay more, then do it. The only thing that is going to bring down the quality score is spending more money to get that click through ratio to get your price down, or improving the user experience to get the quality score up.
Myron McDaniel asks: We are launching a new site and need some sponsors. The site is hbcuighlights.com we links open for podcast, blogs, partners section. Would you like sponsor our site with fighters.com or another one your properties?
ShoeMoney: Possibly. Demonstrate what is in it for us and we’ll talk.
River Girl asks: When and where is the next elite retreeat?
ShoeMoney: I don’t think it makes sense to have it anywhere other than San Francisco. Unless somebody wants to put up the money to do it. We sold out the last one in San Fran, but we don’t have any plans to do another one. But I get asked once a week when the next one will be. I think it will sell out in 48 hours. It would probably be next Feb – March, in San Fran. Unless somebody wants to put up some money and have it somewhere else. We could try it in Vegas, but you want people actually at the event. We’ll have more on that at the end of this year. I know there is a big demand for it. I don’t know that we can top the last one, but we could definitely still do it.
Jim asks: besides craigslist, what job listings boards have you found to PERSONALLY work for you for recruiting employees? Please do not answer with monster.com, hotjobs, etc where the fees are in the hundreds. These cannot be virtual people, like elance etc, but professional (i need teachers) in the US?
ShoeMoney: Husker Hire Link
zxj asks: why can not I see my comment?
ShoeMoney: Read my post on comment spam and the comment system. If you have never commented before, it will be in the comment moderation cue.
David G. asks: Shoe,
Your recommendations 1. Wordpress or Blooger or Other. 2. The Best Web Hosting Companies. 3. Any Recommendation for Auction Software for web based auction. 4. Did you check out PicLens? Thanks ShoeMoney: Wordpress
We haven’t used a web hosting company for years No No idea what piclense is
SalutaryBlog asks: Would you recommend stealing videos and branding them as your own?
ShoeMoney: Obviously no. But I think on the other hand, you see a lot of people stealing my content and branding it as their own. You want to always respect copyrights of everyone.
Robert asks: What did you think of how TAC (top affiliate challenge) came out?
ShoeMoney: I think based on the fact that they had absolutely no money to spend on it, the producers. Thor didn’t have a very extensive marketing background, and a company that produced wedding videos. It has gotten more buzz than anything that I can remember. There are a number of things that need to be improved. People always bring it up. I know they were happy with the amount of revenue that the producers got out of it, and the winner got out of it. I don’t know that I’ll be apart of it again, time wise, it was just taking up a lot of time. I’ve been approached about it, but I’m kind of saying no for now. It was pretty successful. I haven’t seen past the third episode, but people will ask me about it, and tell me that it gets so much better. It received a lot of negative press, but they had a lot of how they would do it differently. So I don’t know that it was that negative. They have kind of volunteered to help out with the next one. I agree there was a lot of room for improvement, but at the same time it was one of the biggest success stories we’ve had in a long time.
Ted asks: Shoe say you have a website selling a physical product. What do you think a manufacturer/wholesaler of said product wants to hear in order to give you the best discount (and thus a greater re-sale margin for you)?
ShoeMoney: I think the representation of the product is a big thing. If you can show you have a budget for advertising, they will give you a better margin. If you have a reputation in the space for sales with similar products, and showing you are not just going to waste their time. Will all result in a better payout.
browie asks: if you had the name browie, what would you call your new company when you started to bring in enough revenue?
ShoeMoney: Something else, I would call it something else.
George @ Micro Marketing asks: If you can start all over again… would you still build a blog or go for the static webpages…
here’s another question… which utility o software you will not be able be without or lose its application… which is the most important to you? ShoeMoney: I would start my blog again.
Terminal, without terminal I would be in deep trouble. With no access to command lines, it would be a real issue. I use skitch a ton as well.
James asks: Do you have a dog? If so whats the dogs name and male or female…..
ShoeMoney: Baxter, male
Victor asks: Can a blogger starting now possibly have the same kind of success you and John Chow have had, with all the competition today?
ShoeMoney: Yes. I think it depends on what you determine as success. As far as the blogosphere, John Chow and I are both in the top 100 Technorati. We are just regular guys. I think anyone can do it. I graduated with a 1. Something GPA, anyone can do it. I write anything from how I used to be fat, meeting paris Hilton, and people find that interesting. So you can do it too.
mr K asks: What are the 3 biggest mistakes you’ve made in your online marketing journey?
ShoeMoney: 1. I had an oral contract with a company, and they broke the agreement and there was nothing we could do about it.
2. I’m a horrible manager, so I should have hired a CEO a while ago. I’m a marketer and some what of a programmer. For me to be a CEO and run all of these different sites and do marketing, but I think I still should hire a CEO to run all of these companies. 3. Newsletter. I should have started a newsletter years ago. And people tried to tell me, but I never listened.
Justin asks: How is Below A Buck doing? Traffic? How many successful bids/ACRU is it doing in per a month?
ShoeMoney: Belowabuck is a site that we created in less than 24 hours. We did it on less than $500 budget. In the first month it did a couple thousand dollars. But we haven’t even changed the links to the new CJ links, so it does absolutely nothing. Its actually blacklisted in google, because another site was causing a duplicate content issue. We’re actually trying to get that cleared up.
Mike asks: How do you usually start driving traffic with new projects or affiliates and how much money do you usually take in the hand?
ShoeMoney: Organically is nice. Usually I use low hanging fruit. So if I know someone in that space. Say we have a baby product, I would ping a lot of the mommy bloggers. Just go after low hanging fruit.
Glenn S. asks: What do you consider the best pay-per-lead affiliate programs?
ShoeMoney: The poker industry, if its legal for you to do so, still has incredible payouts per lead. Mortgages pay really really well if you have quality stuff. Financial industry. It depends on your quality of leads, and how you build the leads.
Ryan asks: Sometimes I find myself in a “mental block” when trying to think “outside the box” to come up with new keywords. What tips can you provide us with, to allow our minds to break free from the block?
ShoeMoney: I did a post one time on harvesting your own internal data. For instance on nextpimp, which is our mobile community site. People will type in artist names, and typos. And then bid on that in our keyword set. We have our own keyword generation tool, and keep them fresh all the time. You can subscribe to shoemoney tools, for $100 per month right now in the beta. The only thing you can do unique, is your own data.
JumboCasher.com asks: how would it feel to ask john ths question?
ShoeMoney: Pass
Dave asks: If you had a full-time job (that you don’t hate) and your online income was about 1.5x what your job makes, would you quit or stick with it? On the one hand, I could probably grow it quite a bit since I’m only spending about 8 hours a week on it now. On the other hand, when I don’t rely on the online income as much I outsource more (less work for me), save more, and spend more on fun stuff. Think if you didn’t get fired you would’ve kept your job?
ShoeMoney: If they are happy, just do what makes them happy. There is a certain level of security with working for someone. And having benefits. Most people want to know at one point should you quit your day job and pursue. I think it just depends on how much you believe in what you are doing.
Reid asks: Shoemoney-
Did you ever have a time in your life where you wanted to give up on your internet ideas, or what gave you the push to become a successful internet entrepreneur? ShoeMoney: I never wanted to give up. Its like a hobby to me, to try different things. Like playing the game of life. Being that it doesn’t cost anything to do it. The push really to do it, was a position of opportunity meets preparation. I basically got fired from a job, and my girlfriend at the time had decent enough income to support us as I tried this.
JumboCasher.com asks: How would a search engine rate a single landing page against a small say 10 page website?
ShoeMoney: If all the links are going to the primary page and isn’t linking to the internal pages then it doesn’t matter. If all the links are going to an interior page, than that main page isn’t going to rank as well. I’m not an SEO.
terminator69 asks: What is the coolest thing you have with the shoemoney logo on it? (excluding the swimming pool).
ShoeMoney: When I was 12 years old, I took a fluorescent plastic that goes over light fixtures. I did that logo in duct tape, and then spray-painted it. So when the light was on, it would shine through the logo.
Craig asks: If timing was different how do you think you would have done on the TAC, it would have been really interesting to see all 3 gurus battle it out.
ShoeMoney: It wasn’t a battle between the gurus. We were there as just a resource for the contestants. It would have been interesting to see if we had a competition between us 3 gurus.
Geiger asks: What’s it take to get to the top of the Free T-Shirt Friday Queue?
ShoeMoney: I don’t really see the shirts, till Tigh hands them to me. So maybe a $20 to Tigh and Susan.
Bryn Youngblut asks: Are you less motivated with your blog lately?
ShoeMoney: The thing with my blog , is its my blog. So if I want to write, I can. If not, then I don’t have to. I’m more excited about the blog than ever. But unfortunately the blog has always taken a back seat to our other company stuff. The company is definitely low on the priority list. We do have a new design that will be rolled out this week.
JumboCasher.com asks: Shoe, what are the 3 biggest mistakes that you have made on this blog!
ShoeMoney: 1. The newsletter, not having one.
2. Redone the URL structure. But I like the way it is now, and by the URL structure you and tell by what dates the post was made. 3. I wish I would have implemented some of things I do now earlier. The behind the scenes thing, those are fricken awesome. Absolutely love doing those. Wish I would have done that earlier, and we have quite a waiting list of companies that we’re doing. I think I just took too long doing something things.
Mitchell Blatt asks: How does it feel to have a Wikipedia page about yourself while John Chow doesn’t?
ShoeMoney: I actually have a huge list of all the things I’ve done that John Chow hasn’t. I actually didn’t even know that he didn’t have one. And my page lists me 2 years older than what I actually am. I’m not going to lie, it is cool to have a wikipedia page. But I still have to work tomorrow.
Martin Muehl asks: You once mentioned that you track your website traffic with your own analytics tool. Do you track any key metrics other than the usual?
ShoeMoney: Depending on the site and the goal. For instance on our webmasters tools stuff. We track what tool people use, and devoting the most amount of time on what people are using.
samn asks: How do you get a “Great” quality score on a single page landing page.
ShoeMoney: Click through ratio has to be very good. The user experience is very vital, and so the user doesn’t immediately click back right away. As much as you can answer the keyword, and your ad copy has a lot to do with it. Read some of my old posts on paperclick.
Mitch asks: Whenever I try using an image ad (CJ, Common Connect, etc) on the side panel of my Wordpress blog (my server, but their software), that entire side is suddenly at the bottom of the screen on the browser instead of on the right side. What could the issue be?
ShoeMoney: Sounds like you have a fixed width issue. Your website is a fixed width, and that image is too big.
Coaster asks: I am new to this site.
Where should I start reading on your site? It seems to be a bit all over the place to me and I don’t know what to read first! ShoeMoney: At the bottom is a previous questions and answers, there are over 1,200 Q&A’s. I would start there.
Chris Edwards asks: Can I become a rep of yours someway over here in California (Los Angeles)?
ShoeMoney: Absolutely.
team ray asks: auctions ads how long did it take you to put it together and in what programming language did you use?
ShoeMoney: Dave Dellanave wrote it in a couple days, for the core of it. Maybe less than a day. It was derived from a product called Shoemoney Ads.
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mcQ asks: Do you think Bruce Ivin’s is the anthrax guy? or he is being used as a scapegoat?
ShoeMoney: Not familiar. Sure.
Geiger asks: Choose one…
Rock, Paper or Scissors? ShoeMoney: Rock. Because I’m built like a rock.
JumboCasher.com asks: nice question!. I have about 14 and counting…
ShoeMoney: Pass
elsewhen asks: i presume that you are well connected to people who have successful internet businesses. can you disclose the annual profits (not revenues) the top tier are making in different internet business categories… like people who specialize in running adsense sites, affiliate marketers, people selling digital goods, i am not asking you to disclose names, just something like, i know three guys making approx 1.5million/year with adsense or whatever. thanks!
ShoeMoney: I know 3.5 million guys making a dollar a day. If they just want to be inspired, I saw a guy log into his CJ account, and he was doing 2 million a month. That is pretty impressive. The adsense question is interesting, because most of the people making money from adsense, don’t know any better yet. This excludes digg, myspace, etc. Adsense is a great starting point, but it leads you to other things. It lead me to affiliate marketing. We were doing 100k’s per month, and led us to affiliate marketing years and years ago. I don’t know a lot making much with adsense, because it’s a little embarrassing that they are making much. I don’t know anybody making over $5 a month on adsense.
JumboCasher.com asks: making a little money is one thing… what about sustaining that income over a long period of time.
ShoeMoney: That would be good. I agree. That’s how I started with adsense and paperclick stuff. You are rich, and you’re poor. We have grown the staff and entered more stable markets.
Lawrence asks: I have a number, it’s in the range of 1-10….make a guess:
I want to check if we see eye-to-eye ShoeMoney:5
Mark - The Niche Store Builder asks: If you had a stellar idea for a new website… what are the first 5 things you would do? AND, if you were somewhat new… where would you turn for guidance?
ShoeMoney: Turning for guidance, go to my site. We have 3 core things we look at: 1. Business model, is there a way to make money. 2. A needed service, is it something you would want to use, and going to use 3. Is there a viral component, will it grow without spending money. If they aren’t there for your stellar idea, you should probably can it.
Kacper asks: What is your biggest online success so far in this year?
ShoeMoney: The Elite Retreat was big. We launched Fighters.com. I guess it depends on what is “success”. We are hitting all of our goals with fighters.com, but we’re just not profiting. I would say fighters.com is our biggest. Or the tools system, I’m really impressed by how many people have signed up already. We have a great feedback thing now, where people can submit suggestions. And we let members vote on it, and if everybody wants it, then we’ll build it. Its still too early in the year, we usually do the best in the 4th quarter. The 1st and 2nd quarter we suck. 3rd and 4th look very promising.
Dan Schawbel asks: How do you charge advertisers on your blog? Is it by the number of RSS subscribers you have?
ShoeMoney: No. We charge, because we’re capitalist pig, we basically let the market set itself. The advertisers are locked in at that price, but when they stop advertising we charge more for the next advertiser. We increase the price 5% each time, until nobody wants to advertise then we’ll bring the price down.
BigPappa asks: Can I buy you a beer next time I am in Lincoln?
ShoeMoney: Probably not. Only because between work and family, I can’t remember the last time I went out to a bar in Lincoln. Except for one night with the TAC. I can’t even name a bar in Lincoln.
JumboCasher.com asks: what according to you is going to be the next big thing about the internet?
ShoeMoney: The internationalization of the internet will be the next frontier. When you look at the market, and many people use the internet in other countries. If affiliate marketing is there, then adsense will be there. There are just so many people that aren’t on the internet yet, and the mobile, international stuff. Most people in other countries use their phones more than their computer to access the internet.
Charlie asks: Would me buying at a great hibachi grill here in Vegas be a fair trade for some time to discuss a couple projects I have been working on? And when are you going to be in Las Vegas again? (pubcon I assume)
ShoeMoney: I’ll be in Vegas for the DMA, in October. Taking me out for dinner, I just don’t have time for that. I appreciate the offer, but I just don’t plan lunches and dinners. I usually just go with the posse. Unless you want to buy dinner for 20 people. Usually Neil Patel buys for everyone. I’m free to talk, just tag along with.
Joe Hall asks: Best online business: subscription based service, or for sale product? And i also want to know what your thoughts are on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but if i have to choose, I want to know about the online business first.
ShoeMoney: Subscription is the win. Ongoing subscription is timeless. Blockbuster and netflix monthly subscription models, they absolutely kill it. With some of our sites , we have subscribers going back 5, 6 years. That’s awesome revenue. Even with our shirts, we lose money on the shirts. The shirts cost us $7, and $5 to ship. So we lose money on them. We have people call about wrong sizes, or shipped to wrong address. I’ve never cared to actually have a physical product.
I think they’re cool. They don’t have to dress up, they just have their shell. Each has their own specialty.
Allen asks: If you had very limited time and resources, what would you do to make money in the least amount of time?
So let’s say you wanted to make $50/day and had 8 hours to set it up what would you do? ShoeMoney: I would probably put $10,000 and 5% interest on that. Whatever would give me $50 in interest, I would put that much money in the bank. By the time you get all the paperwork done, it would take less than 8 hours.
meethere asks: why dont you post a monthly income report similar to johnchow
 ?ShoeMoney: Honestly, because I would just be guessing. I actually run several other companies and projects. I’m not that guy sitting at home in his underwear anymore. I have one person does all accounting, Tigh does all the operations, and Dave does all the programming. And I do the marketing. I know we do good revenues. The blog should bring in about $300k, $400k this year. Probably 90% is profit. Most of the advertisers don’t want to share, and some have a good rate, some don’t. We have to make $1,400 just so we’re in the green, because we have employees. And in some projects we have investors, which would not want us disclosing the financial info.
TEKFIRM asks: - Content is king
- Viral - Service ShoeMoney: Pass
TEGS asks: Hey Shoe,
I sent you a picture of me and a affiliate check but you never posted it! Either way, love the site! Thanks! ShoeMoney: Send in a pic of yourself with a check. And people started sending in pics with their dog and a check, car and a check. And it might have just got tagged a spam. Send it again.
Geiger asks: How does one start their own ringtone site?
ShoeMoney: A lot of affiliate companies have API’s that you can start right away. Years and years ago, people could generate their own ringtones upload and share them. That would be hard for you now though. I’m assuming you don’t have a very good marketing team, programming team.
corey asks: the website that is the most enjoyable for me to run and create content for is in a niche that is not a huge affiliate arena. only a few of the online stores have affiliate programs. have you ever motivated a company to start a program? is it a lot of trouble for a seller to get setup with one of these networks?
ShoeMoney: We have motivated and written affiliate programs for companies. If this company has something you believe in, have them contact us and we can implement one for them. They can go with CJ, they charge like $5k off the top, and hold $5k. We custom write them, and the way we do it is pretty slick for SEO value. It has better tracking than most affiliate companies. And its more hands on. When people are blocking CJ cookies, and links. You won’t be affected by that.
Andrew asks: Do you have a college degree? Is it valuable these days for someone who aims to live off the internet or is it a waste of precious time ?
ShoeMoney: Like Tigh, he has a 4 year degree in Mathematics. But he is also from a very small town. When people are from small farming communities are usually very hard workers, and good work ethic. That combined with his education was hard for me to ignore. I don’t have a degree, I just don’t learn very well in an educational setting. I learn better from experience. If you are already doing this, and learning, and getting experience from it. I don’t know what school is going to do for you. But if you want to be an accountant, or marketing wise you can learn a lot from school. I benefited greatly from classes I took like business law and marketing. More key classes, and less degrees. I’m not a degree person.
Melvin asks: when you started out putting ads on this site, whats the average price of an adspot?
ShoeMoney: I think around $200 a month.
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| Reeplay.it |
| Reeplay.it is a company I have been working with for a while, we presented the concept last year at Le Web 3.0, and finally last week we opened to the general public: now everybody can subscribe and use it. Here's a short introductory video: The basic idea is simple: bookmark your favorite videos and play them back on any device. We'll take care of storing, transcoding, distributing, sharing, etc. There's a ton of additional features in the pipeline, but feature-wise I think we have reached critical mass: it's useful enough to get the first users on board and start collecting feedback. |
| Mel's Blog |
Melanie Volk, a friend of a friend, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She's started a blog detailing what she's going through. In a recent post, she talks about how her cancer was not diagnosed for over a year:
The system failed me. When I think about it, I get frustrated that this should never have happened or gone so long undetected in me. I've heard that healthcare is in the process of changing SOP to provide MRIs in young women (mammograms are still better for older women).And, her advice to women: Soapbox moment: I believe most women do find lumps themselves. Just remember, that a mammogram doesn't rule out cancer and now you can be proactive about your care. Always get it tested if not removed.Cancer is a terrible disease. My thoughts are with Melanie. |
| Christian Bale Will Not Be Charged with Assault |
| Christian Bale will not be charged over claims of assault following a July 20 London disagreement with his mother and sister, who provoked a conflict when they asked him for £100,000 ($186,788) on the night of a big Batman premiere. Prosecutors at England’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have reviewed the case, and determined it is not [...] |
Christian Bale will not be charged over claims of assault following a July 20 London disagreement with his mother and sister, who provoked a conflict when they asked him for £100,000 ($186,788) on the night of a big Batman premiere. Prosecutors at England’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have reviewed the case, and determined it is not in the public interest nor is there sufficient evidence to gain a conviction. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said:
The CPS released a statement Thursday about the case saying:
Hopefully Bale will distance himself now from his greedy mother and sister. © Copyright HollywoodGrind 2006 - 2008. All Rights Reserved. If this article is NOT being displayed on hollywoodgrind.com then this article is STOLEN. Go to HollywoodGrind and REPORT THIS THIEF. Related posts: |
| Tom Cruise Vs. Dr. Drew! |
Tom Cruise might have met his match. Unfortunately. Dr. Drew Pinsky gave in. The Celebrity Rehab counselor and level-headed Loveline doctor recently gave his diagnosis of Tom Cruise in an upcoming Playboy interview. Thank Xenu that someone in the medical profession recently gave their professional opinion of that wacky queen! Katie's going to need all the documentation she can get for the court battle that will take place if she ever escapes her brainwashing drug regimen! "A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that's a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood - maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect," Dr. Drew says. You forgot the closeted homosexuality. That's the shredded cheese on top of this chili! As expected, Cruise's lawyer lashed out at Drew and compared him to a Nazi. For having a medical opinion? "This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels," says Cruise's high-powered attorney, Bert Fields. Drew caved. Probably because he knows that Cruise has millions and, even scarier, followers. Some of them high-powered. "Although Mr. Field's intent is clearly to slander and discredit Dr. Drew, under no circumstances is Dr. Drew making a blanket diagnosis about Scientology nor Mr. Cruise whom he does not know. Dr. Drew was simply using Mr. Cruise as an example of someone who is recognizable to help the public understand. Again, Dr. Drew meant him no harm," his rep said in a statement. Tom's not paranoid or anything. I mean, his cars are bombproof, but you never know when someone might throw grenades at his SUV. Right. *cuckoo sound*
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| Get the Skinny on The Pineapple Express' Amber Heard |
Mr. Skin fast forwards to the good parts. This week see Pineapple Express' Amber Heard nude, Penelope Cruz topless and Justine Bateman in the buff! Runtime: 00 hrs 01 min 00 sec |
| Al Qaeda Does What to Civilians ? |
| Al Qaeda had a suicide bomber drive a car into a Iraqi muslim funeral today, killing 25 people. Yesterday, Mr. Al Zarwaki said that Al Quada "did not target Muslim civilians." Who did he think was going to attend this funeral anyway ? Coalition forces ? Israelis ? Jooos ? Obviously Muslims were there. What a liar. A Hypocrite. Read about it here. I am against suicide bombings against any people, Muslim, Jew, Christian, American or Spanish, military or civilian, but especially civilian. Zarqawi is full of lies. He is saying one thing and doing another. I can see it, and it looks like several people are finally opening their eyes and seeing the truth too. There was a rally in Jordan with approximately 200,000 participants, several calling Al Zarqawi a "coward" and saying that he should "burn in hell." Several radical Islamic websites that normally celebrate al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks are now replete with criticism of the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent Muslims. This is a small, but welcome step. Perhaps if everyone, even the fanatic and non-fanatic supporters of Al Qaeda see that he is hypocritical, maybe, just maybe Al-Qaeda will lose it's welcome in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Another article of interest about the same topic as above. |
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| 03/30/08, 21:29:53 Cung Le Hands Frank Shamrock A Devastating Defeat |
| Frank Shamrock fought like a champ despite being in pain from a broken arm in his match against Sanshou legend Cung Le on Showtime's EliteXC promotion. Le broke Shamrock's right... |
| Press Briefing by Tony Fratto - 07/10/2008 |
| MR. FRATTO: Good afternoon, everyone. A couple things for you. General Petraeus and General Odierno -- we're expecting votes on the two generals on the floor this afternoon. I think we just heard it will be at 2:00 p.m. on the Senate. So, you know, very hopeful that the Senate will confirm both General Petraeus and General Odierno -- General Odierno as the new multinational force commander in Iraq, and General Petraeus as the commander of Central Command. |
| walking vs. driving [CnC] |
| Today I read on WorldChanging this post about the debacle concerning the climate impacts of walking vs. driving. John Tierney writes: If you walk 1.5 miles, Mr. Goodall calculates, and replace those calories by drinking about a cup of milk, the greenhouse emissions connected with that milk (like methane from the dairy farm and carbon dioxide [...] |
Today I read on WorldChanging this post about the debacle concerning the climate impacts of walking vs. driving.
Now, Karl Schroeder in the WorldChanging post linked above already scores a few points back to the walking practice but I think he’s missing the major one: where does your food come from? I don’t have any number here but I’ve this very strong feeling that practices like the 100 miles diet can help reduce our impact quite considerably, together with possibly tightening a bit our ever-loosing bound with the local territory. |
| The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth |
| Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic’s focus on fixing some of WordPress’s biggest weaknesses. The theme for the “State of the Word”, Mullenweg’s yearly keynote, was “Strong,” and growth from both WordPress.com and WordPress.org (their hosted [...] |
Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic’s focus on fixing some of WordPress’s biggest weaknesses. The theme for the “State of the Word”, Mullenweg’s yearly keynote, was “Strong,” and growth from both WordPress.com and WordPress.org (their hosted and self-hosted platforms, respectively) sure show it. Here are the stats for WordPress.com over the last year:
This growth is also seems significant versus WordPress.com’s main competitor, Typepad. Comscore numbers put US numbers at 20.9M uniques for WordPress.com against 7.2M on Typepad.com, and internationally 97.8M vs. 16.8M. Here’s the Compete graph (which only measures US traffic):  And for WordPress.org (the self-hosted, open-source version), Mullenweg announced today that there are 2.6 million active user-installed WordPress blogs in the wild. This figure is based on real data (not sampling), similar to Mozilla accumulating browser stats. Downloads from WordPress.org went over 11 million since last summer (up from 2.8 million the year before), thanks to over 11 new WP releases. The focus for 2009? Easier upgrades. Their growth, Mullenweg says, is not dissimilar from other popular products (he mentioned Microsoft, OSX, iPhone, Facebook platform as examples), and believes that good platforms need good self-updating systems. Automattic has a three-prong strategy for better updates: better community awareness, working with webhosts, and adding automatic upgrades functionality to WordPress. Mullenweg envisions the upgrade process to work just like Firefox: one-click, with a list of plugin and theme incompatibilities generated. WordPress.org’s plugin directory (and a recently-launched theme directory) will help make this possible. Many new features are also in the pipeline, including the much anticipated BuddyPress, but that a clean update system will remove one of the biggest thorns for WP users. Also up for 2009 is better security. Their most recent release, 2.6.1, was an optional update (no security patches), which is a nice departure from their previous, critical ‘dot’ releases. WordPress has received a lot of flack for this recently: they were given a 2008 Pwnie for Mass 0wnage for numerous vulnerabilities that led to mass hacking. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 |
| Ready! Samsung F480 at the Olympics |
| Happy weekend folks. I’ve been looking for commercials from Samsung that spelled Olympics 2008 and found this one to be one of the most entertaining. This is a spot for the Samsung F480, their touch screen widget phone upon which the Samsung OMNIA is based on. Ready? Ready! Tags: F480, i8510, Smile Shot, WidgetsShare This |
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Happy weekend folks. I’ve been looking for commercials from Samsung that spelled Olympics 2008 and found this one to be one of the most entertaining. This is a spot for the Samsung F480, their touch screen widget phone upon which the Samsung OMNIA is based on. Ready? Ready! Tags: F480, i8510, Smile Shot, Widgets |
| Tags: F480, i8510, Smile Shot, WidgetsShare This, |
| Samsung OMNIA Tech Specs |
| Proud to report we’ve gotten our hands on a Samsung OMNIA. Our first impression is that the OMNIA is akin to Samsung’s design philosophy, albeit with fingerprint magnet on the screen. The OMNIA runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and boasts a 5MP camera. It has Bluetooth and WiFi. What’s interesting about the OMNIA is it’s [...] |
Proud to report we’ve gotten our hands on a Samsung OMNIA. Our first impression is that the OMNIA is akin to Samsung’s design philosophy, albeit with fingerprint magnet on the screen. The OMNIA runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and boasts a 5MP camera. It has Bluetooth and WiFi. What’s interesting about the OMNIA is it’s custom UI and widget interface like the SGH F480.
We’ll be posting a hands on within the next few hours. In the meantime, here are the product tech specs Samsung OMNIA (SGH-i900) Specifications |
| Tags: 5MP, OMNIA, Pocket PC, Widgets, Windows MobileShare This, |
| Is Ray-Ban Paying Their Gayelle Asses? |
I know HoHan and SamRo are supposed to be hipster lezzies or something, but damn! Can't they wear something else besides Ray-Bans? Now, I've been known to put on a pair of Wayfarers now and then, but now it's hard for me to do so without thinking about these coochie lickers. Damn then! Ray-Ban better be paying them the big bucks. Here's these two buying a bunch of dumb shit they don't need in Los Angeles yesterday. All they do is fucking shop. They need to turn up the action. I'm waiting for the sex tape to hit the internets. I wanna see these two bump cokey ginas, smash pies, mack on a ham wallet, grill up a furburger.....something. Actually, I take that back. That would not be the gayelle sex tape of my dreams. Now a Rojo Caliente and Cynthia Nixon sex tape is a different story. |
| The Cookie's Crumbling |
| America's mall staple is in trouble! The Mrs. Fields cookie chain will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to new reports. This is devastating!!!! The Wall Street Journal said the company, has struggled with its debt and has racked up losses in recent months. The famous cookie place posted a net loss of about $10.7 million [...] |
America's mall staple is in trouble! The Mrs. Fields cookie chain will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to new reports. This is devastating!!!! The Wall Street Journal said the company, has struggled with its debt and has racked up losses in recent months. The famous cookie place posted a net loss of about $10.7 million for the quarter ended June 28. The protection plan Mrs. Fields will enter into will allow the co. to repay its creditors and exit from bankruptcy. Sounds like we may be seeing a mass closing of Mrs. Fields locations. Sad. Mrs. Fields was such a big part of our mall rat days!!! |
| Get the Skinfo on the House Bunny |
Mr. Skin fast forwards to the good parts. This week see Anna Faris bare her tail in The House Bunny and Aussie babe Sophie Monk showing her outback in Entourage. Runtime: 00 hrs 01 min 00 sec |
| Flybe Airline Opening API to Combat Screen Scraping |
 Should you let people scrape data from your site or offer a web service API instead? This is one of the classic arguments for offering an API: to get better control over how your data is accessed and who gets access. A recent news story about Flybe, Europe's largest independent regional airline carrier, demonstrates a case where this was the main driver for creating an API. For Flybe, having third party service and applications access their booking engine is very important to them, but they want to make it more structured and reliable. |
Mr. Hobday describes some of the issues inherent in the screen-scraping model:
In the end he describes this as a business development strategy: “In the online environment, Web Services is becoming the de-facto messaging standard. The onus is on us to integrate this in to our strategy and continue to work with our partners in what can only be viewed as a win-win situation for everyone.” This is likely to be an argument heard more frequently in the coming months and years as open APIs become a commonly accepted means for partners doing business online. |
| 47 Photo APIs |
 Along with the rapid growth of video APIs, the marketplace of photo-related APIs continues to expand rapidly. Since we looked at 36 Photo APIs earlier this year, we've added nearly a dozen new ones, and there are now 47 APIs tagged "photo" in our web service directory. |
The best known and most used photo API continues to be the Flickr API, now with 365 Flickr mashups listed here. Second in terms of mashups listed is the Imageloop API with 24 ImageLoop mashups listed. Then third and fourth are both Google properties: the Picasa API with and Panoramio API with 9 Panoramio mashups (a mashup-centric service that Google acquired last year). Recent additions include the Zooomer API, the MediaSock API, the MOO API and the World Bank API. On the photo mashup front, there’s the recently added entry for Pikter, a simple service that enables you to share photos on Twitter and-or Jaiku.
For reference, here’s the full list of photo-related APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory:
Use our photo mashup and API dashboard to keep track of photo APIs, mashups and news. Related ProgrammableWeb Resources Flickr API Profile and MashupsMOO API Profile and Mashups World Bank API Profile and Mashups MediaSock API Profile and Mashups |
| Carnival cites Roland Piquepaille’s recent post |
| In its round up this week of the writing by bloggers who focus on mobile, the Carnival of the Mobilists included Roland Piquepaille’s recent SmartMobs post about Sign Language and cell phones. I was host of the Carnival this time, at my blog GoldenSwamp.com, where I cobbled together the harlequin and iPhone — as something [...] |
For information on how you can participate by submitting a link to the Carnival, and/or becoming a host, visit the Carnival of the Mobilists website. You can also subscribe there to the RSS to receive the weekly Carnival of Mobilist blogging. |
| Best of Gothic Horror Audio Collection |
 Best of Gothic HorrorStories written by Edgar Allen Poe Mary Shelly & Robert Louis Stevenson - Unabridged Fiction - 10 CASSETTES - 15 hours Publisher Topics Entertainment (June 2000) 3 Unabridged books on 10 Cassettes! Over 15 hours of Listening! The Best of Gothic Horror is a compilation that includes some of the most famous gothic-horror writing in history. For fans of horror this three-title box set will be truly a cherished s item. As with the other titles in the Literate Listener series we have put together books that share a common theme and when combined together are both high-quality and a great value. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly - A monster is born by the hands of Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelly s gothic masterpiece. The tale of the monster s distress and the mayhem that results from it is the crux of this dark and engrossing story. Written when she was barely twenty years old Shelly s shocking novel inspires both fear and sorrow which continues to engage and move us over a century later. Length: 8:08 hours The Edgar Allen Poe Collection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe - The most celebrated American gothic author of all time. Edgar Allen Poe s short stories are sure to terrify and chill all gothic-horror enthusiasts! Internationally recognized for his suspenseful and spine-tingling poems The Raven and Annabel Lee Poe s short stories are written with the same uncanny flair that will surely make every listener cling to their bed sheets and cringe when they hear that bump in the middle of the night.... This collection of Poe stories includes: The Descent Into the MaelstromLigeiaSelected PoemsThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Tell Tale HeartThe Black CatThe Cask of AmantilladoThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Oval Portrait Length 4:29 hours The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days of mad writing. His wife found it so horrific that he burned the manuscript. In another three days he wrote it again. The story is about a wealthy doctor and scientist named Dr. Jekyll who unleashes the dark monster within himself by drinking a potion that he developed. More than just a great horror novel this classic delves into the very nature of human morality. Length: 2:33 hours Price: 4.99 |
| 03/14/08, 13:43:27 Drill Down With Mr. Driller |
| Kotaku just found a Japanese site which features screenshots for Namco Bandai’s upcoming Mr. Driller Online for the Xbox Live Arcade. The upshot? Mr. Driller is a thriller. Also released are screenshots of directions, which look very easy to understand.... |
Kotaku just found a Japanese site which features screenshots for Namco Bandai’s upcoming Mr. Driller Online for the Xbox Live Arcade. The upshot? Mr. Driller is a thriller. Also released are screenshots of directions, which look very easy to understand. That’s often been a problem with online casual games for consoles: the instructions have sucked big time in everything from Pinball FX for the Xbox 360 to PixelJunk Monsters for the PS3. Here, you not only get basic rules; you’ll get to know all the power ups and treasure you can collect. So nothing will stymie you as you drill to victory and collect air capsules so you won’t die of suffocation. Great instructions, great game. Can’t wait.
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| 03/13/08, 11:23:13 Exclusive - Trip Hawkins Interview, Part 2 |
| By Harold Goldberg As Game Break continues its look at the history of Electronic Arts through the eyes of founder Trip Hawkins, I talked with the thoughtful, loquacious personality about the one game that really made Electronic Arts a huge... |
By Harold Goldberg
HG: Madden as a personality was arguably a star on still rising, big celebrity, a huge deal, right? HG: There’s a terrific story about how you met with Madden
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| Beaming solar power from space |
| Jyoti is the Hindi word for light. It's something Pranav Mehta has never had to live without. And he is lucky. Near where he lives in Gujarat -- one of the most prosperous states in India -- thousands of rural villages lack electricity or struggle with an intermittent supply at best.
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| Buffalo pops out 22-inch WUXGA LCD monitor |
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| Check Your PC's Ability to Run Games Online |
Filed under: Games, Utilities, Web services  Need to know whether or not your rig can handle the new game you're eyeing up? Head over to System Requirements Lab and fire up Can You Run It.
The browser-based utility will check your hardware configuration against the requirements for the game you select and quickly tell you whether or not you're good to go. The assessment runs very quickly (about 30 seconds) and provides both an overall mark and individual ratings for each component (cpu, ram, OS, video, hdd). SRL already has an impressive list of games to rate against, including titles like Spore, Bioshock, GRID, and (sigh) Second Life. Speaking as a tech, this is a great way to quickly show a customer why their new game won't run on their haggard old PC. Can You Run It works in both Firefox and IE. [via Freeware Genius] |
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