Internet Marketing

Completely changing the direction of a website

Last week I made the decision to change Electric Bandits from a blog to a forum. I had been updating it as a blog for around 9 months however I just didn’t have the time to update it as much as I would have liked. The site covers topics I’m …

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I aquired System0.com

I have been using the domain name System0.net for my online presence (ie. my home page) since 2002. I never really thought about getting the .com but I checked recently and saw that the owner was selling it through Sedo. When I first registered the name I of course checked …

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Website Ideas : Start your own Twitter Site

I come across some great scripts from time to time. I do buy some of them but most of the time I don’t bother because I’m busy with other things or because I don’t think I’d be able to build a successful site with the script. Therefore, from now on …

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Google Street View Coming To UK

Well it looks like Google’s Street View is coming to the UK. Expect to see a small bald fat man with a camera the length of his arm at a street near you pretty soon. This will be followed by months of stories of privacy invasions, complaints and more. Personally, …

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YouTube gets sued for $779 million

Looks like YouTube is going to get taking to the cleaners. I don’t see how they will get out of this one. They have been showing copyrighted clips online with adsense ads at the side. They do remove copyrighted videos but it’s claimed they have been too slow and in …

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Amazon Launches PayPal Competitor

I’ve read a few articles today about the launch of Amazon’s new payment system. Their payment system allows developers to use Amazons back end. I for one welcome. According to the New York Times there are 81 million customers in the USA with their credit card details in the amazon …

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Google has indexed over 1 trillion web pages

Google reported the other day that their servers have now indexed over 1,000,000,000,000 URL’s. Compare this with 26 million pages when they launched in 1998 and one billion in 2000. It’s a pretty good estimate on how much the web has grown in the last 10 years. I see no …

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Why do software companies keep bundling crap with their scripts?

I switched on my pc this morning to see that I had a message from Sun to update my Java. They update quite frequently so I didn’t think anything of it. When I was skipping through the steps of the installation I noticed that they had an option to install …

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Some random affiliate emails I have received this week

I get bombarded with emails from affiliates every day. I do unsubscribe from some and spam others however I do keep tabs on some on the offchance there is a good promotion or good news story. Here are a two I have received this week. From CasinoBlasters Hi Kevin Muldoon, …

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Banners Mall Suck

I have been looking to get some banners design for BloggingTips lately. I’m going to promote the main blog and the forums on some related blogs. For years I used 20 Dollar Banners but my email to them was never replied to so last Friday I placed an order at …

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