Category Archives: General

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service is one of those relatively little known secrets on the Web. You don’t see it on their homepage or anywhere else. But for those in the know, it can be a resource to earn a little extra money (not much) or get an offbeat article written. Usually, people go to Amazon… Read More »

Is online voting really unbiased?

Time for a little rant. I’ve been following the 7 Wonders of the World results today just for fun, (never voted, or even aware of it previously) but the results prove some things just don’t change. Where are the Cones of Cappadocia? Or the vast (and spooky) underground city of Edinburgh? Why not the really… Read More »

WebWare 100 results skewed?

If you have been using web applications for some time, you might be aware there was a contest by CNet that recently ended, called WebWare 100 that had voters voting for their favorite applications in different catagories.

Just back after some malware problems

I’m back after a few days offline due to a problem with my PC. Seems I had a malware problem which required me to reformat my hard disk. But looking on the bright side, I think it probably was good as well, that I had this problem. Because now, I can actually surf with greater… Read More »

Google cracking down on MFAs and Adsense arbitrage.

I just read a post by Jennifer Slegg on her blog at JenSense that I think is pretty significant, concerning MFAs and Adsense arbitrage. According to her, many publishers have been receiving emails from Google saying their accounts will be disabled by June 1, 2007. I think the bomb has been dropped, or maybe its… Read More »

Reasons your PayPal account got limited.

I have been a PayPal user for a long time now, and very often I see this problem happening to a lot of PayPal users, which is inadvertedly getting their PayPal accounts locked or limited. Limited accounts cannot send or receive funds anymore until the matter is resolved with PayPal; a costly problem in terms… Read More »

Solar powered Google, Green Yahoo and hybrid cars

TechCrunch has a nice post on how the two Web giant search engines, Google and Yahoo are hard at work competing to get more publicity and to publicize themselves as environmentally friendly. It is all good, I tell you 😉 The earth needs action done today. Although Micheal Arrington of TechCrunch is right to say… Read More »

Will Egold be closed down?

About two weeks ago, E-Gold owners were served an indictment by the US Federal Government on charges of conspiracy in money laundering and illegal operations. E-Gold is one of the biggest payment processors on the Web, and serves mainly people from countries that cannot use Paypal. It should be noted “an indictment is merely an… Read More »

Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

This is important news that got posted everywhere on the Web just a while ago. Word has it that Microsoft is planning to purchase Yahoo. A Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would be the biggest online takeover to date, with reports saying it might be a 50 billion dollar deal; more than what many decades old… Read More »