FTC Sues Payment Co. For Role In Web Scam
Try to access the website of payment service InterBill and you’ll get a white-screen notice that the site is “under construction.” We can, for lack other information, assume it has nothing to do with the Federal Trade Commission filing suit over the company’s affiliation with a major scam.
Yahoo Buys MyBlogLog (Why?)
Okay, so Yahoo finally fronted the cash (reportedly about $10-million) for MyBlogLog, the viral social network that a couple of guys started awhile back and that has been growing by leaps and bounds according to Alexaholic.
A Perl and C# Comparison
A search that I have noticed that has been passed to my site was “perl c# comparison”, I would assume that the person that asked this was trying to compare the languages and not how c# and perl perform comparisons.
SL, Open Source and Franchising
Interesting news that Linden Labs have open sourced the Second Life client source code under GPLv2.
The Mobile Chaos Continues…
Today, Google announced another mobile partnership (this time with Samsung), and Yahoo released Yahoo Go 2.0 (this is not long after Ask released their mobile search, which didn’t include a search box).
CES – Marketing in the Age of Control
Sunday night Bill Gates shared his vision of the future to kickoff the Consumer Electronics Show – and focus attention during the annual gadget-fest on the role of Microsoft’s Vista in how consumers will be using electronics and technology in the coming year.
AOL To Premiere Documentary
AOL is debuting a documentary film today called Darkon on its site True Stories. During the month of January the film will be available online free prior to its theatrical release. Darkon documents the fantasy adventures of people who gather in parks in the Baltimore/D.C. area.
Blogkits – Do They Live Up To Their Claims?
Roughly one month ago, on December 11, I signed up for Jim Kukral’s BlogKits service.
Critiquing Google’s Customer Support
In my last column, I scoured the web, drumming up angry AdWords users from the depths of blogs and message boards and consolidating their suffering into a plaintive against Google’s customer service.
Handling Getting Buried on Digg
From Karoli at Odd Time Signatures comes the story (via The Zero Boss, and prior to that Chris Winfield of the website 10e20) of one Chandler Kent, a 19-year-old college student who wandered into the sights of the Digg bury brigade.