So it has finally happened. The overture bid tool (a tool to see your competitors bids on Yahoo, see below) has finally bit the dust. This happened sometime yesterday or today. It was a nice tool to see the average worth of a phrase relating to your business.
When you now go to that page you [...]
Category Archive for 'Web Stuff'
Joost is a lame name and I’m an official beta tester…
Posted in Web Stuff on Feb 7th, 2007
Wow I get to display this banner on my blog to show how cool I am to the rest of the world. I can do it and you cant sort of mentality. I think its a good link building technique but other than that its lame. I would assume this would appeal to the teenage [...]
Google Webmaster Central Launches - See your links
Posted in Web Stuff on Feb 6th, 2007
Google has finally opened up their vault of site information to site owners. This vault is relatively useless information for 99% of the people out there but fairly valuable to the SEO guy down the street.
If you can verify your site by ftp’ing up a static verification page you can see ALL the links Google [...]
I have recently installed Joomla and Drupal. Both of them are great open source (meaning free) cms systems and really easy to install. Its actually a bit more difficult setting them up once installed from a user standpoint.
From what I have found it seems like Joomla has a more robust designer community allowing you to [...]
WipBox helps you sell easily on eBay and Craigslist.
Posted in Web Stuff on Feb 4th, 2007
This is a pretty interesting new tool. It has only been out for about 4 days but has had hundreds of sign ups and users. Im going to give it a whirl and will follow up with a short review.
**Update: There isn’t much documentation on this product but the user interface seems pretty straightforward. I [...]
New web based Photo editing software
Posted in Web Stuff on Feb 4th, 2007
Out of all the new photo editing companies popping up this one seems to work best for my needs. It incorporates with Flickr very well and seems like a snap to use. The user interface is done in all flash and it actually is pretty clean.
Yahoo Launched Digg Like Suggestion Board
Posted in Web Stuff on Feb 1st, 2007
Not sure how long this has been up but from the amount of activity it doesn’t seem like too long. Seems like everyone is starting to use the digg methodology here and there.
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/
After poking around a bit this service was launched Jan 5 and even gives a bit of credit to digg.
Directly from the [...]
Funny Google Search
Posted in Web Stuff on Jan 16th, 2007
So how does Google see itself. Well you can find out by using Google!
related:http://www.google.com/
Apparently Google thinks that the sites most related to its search empire are about sorority girls and meds. Maybe there are some problems over there after all.
Isnt there a saying about the company we keep…
**Update: Looks like it was just a [...]
PHP shoutbox for you tech geeks out there
Posted in Web Stuff on Jan 16th, 2007
I’m not sure how this would work in a real life e-commerce setup, one that has a lot of traffic that is. I thought it was cool and figured I would share it some more.
check it out here
Pandora Ads inserted into Stream
Posted in Web Stuff on Jan 9th, 2007
So Pandora has finally inserted ads into their stream. It is currently only a trial but I do have some problems with it. Many times when we have people over at our house we put Pandora on and just leave it going in the background. No need to make a mix cd. Now with the [...]