The ever popular blogging service Gravatar started by Tom Werner has been acquired by Automattic. For those that aren’t aware what a gravatar is, it’s a globally recognised avatar. I can hear the question already, what is an avatar and stop speaking Greek. An avatar is a little image or animated icon that people often … Continue reading Automattic Acquires Gravatar
I keep getting the annoying nag message from Microsoft MSN Messenger to upgrade and I’ve been ignoring it for months. I’ve currently got the clearly outdated version 7.5 installed, which is no where near bleeding edge enough – so apparently I need to upgrade post haste. Being the diligent computer user, I uninstalled MSN Messenger … Continue reading Microsoft Live Search Tactics To Claw Back Market Share
Everyone wants to make a quick buck online, unfortunately the trend at the moment seems to revolve around not doing any work to actually make the dollars. If email spam wasn’t enough, now dirty dirty spammers have taken to producing splogs, or spam blogs. The basic idea behind a splog is to generate lots and … Continue reading Splogs, Splogs & More Splogs
If you’re looking to set up an affiliate network or you’ve already got one, you should be aware of a couple important points which might just change how you have or are thinking about setting it up. Physically setting up an affiliate program is quite straight forward and you have two choices in handling the … Continue reading Search Engine Optimisation & Referral Tracking
In the last five months, I have posted twice about the wonders of the free spam filtering service Akismet. Since the last installment, another ten weeks have pasted. In the last ten weeks, approximately 30,000 new spam messages have been received and all of them have been blocked in one way or another. Since installing … Continue reading Akismet, Friends Forever