Entries from January 2007 ↓

Amazon Announces Associate Referral Fees for Unbox Downloads

The Amazon Associates program announced today that Associates can now earn referral fees on Unbox Video Downloads. Amazon Unbox allows visitors to purchase or rent their favorite movies and TV shows by downloading and watch on their PC. Associates are eligible to earn 10%, a full 1.5% above the highest earnings tier, on all Unbox [...]

Microsoft Launches Windows Vista

It’s here after 6 years and more than $25 billion in R&D. According to the research firm IDC, Windows Vista will be installed on more than 90 million computers worldwide in its first year, including 35 million in this USA generating sales of about $70 billion in products and services. According Wikipedia, Microsoft (MSFT: 25.98 [...]

Conan O’Brien - iPhone Commercial

In case you missed it… this is very funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xXNoB3t8vM Tags: Conan, iPhone

How to Check your Server for WordPress 2.1 Requirements

According to the WordPress Codex the requirements for the WordPress 2 series are as follows: WordPress server requirements for Version 2.1: PHP version 4.2 or greater MySQL version 4.0 or greater (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks) WordPress server requirements for Version 2.0: PHP version 4.2 or greater MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite [...]

Squeezebox Wireless Network Music Player

Squeezebox v3 streams digital music or MP3 Internet radio stations to any digital and analog stereo over a home 802.11g wireless network. This device is the easiest way for music lovers to enjoy high-quality playback of their whole digital music collection (compressed and uncompressed audio files) anywhere in the home. Squeezebox is easy to install. [...]

Wikipedia to add Nofollow Attribute to Links

Wikipedia has added rel=”nofollow” onto URLs in the en.wikipedia.org’s article namespace. This move was in response to a rumor of a “search engine optimization world championship” contest targeting Wikipedia. The attribute was implemented on January 20th. Here is an example from the Wiki Backlink page showing that the attribute has been inserted into the [...]

Performancing to Shut Down Partners Ad Network

Chris Garrett, Performancing CEO, announced today that they will shut down the Partners Ad Network. Ads currently in the system will continue to run until the end of the month at which time the ad code will stop working. Bloggers are instructed to take ad code off their templates then. Remaining ad time will be [...]