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: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service »
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: Is online voting really unbiased? »
If you ever experienced your computer freezing/crashing without warning all of a sudden, with a blue screen on your monitor saying your computer was “caught in an infinite loop”, plus there is a mention of the word – “ati2dvag”, it means your computer has caught the ati2dvag bug. This bug seems to affect ATI video… Read More: Ati2dvag problem »
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.
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: Just back after some malware problems »
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: Google cracking down on MFAs and Adsense arbitrage. »
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: Reasons your PayPal account got limited. »
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: Solar powered Google, Green Yahoo and hybrid cars »
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: Will Egold be closed down? »
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: Microsoft to buy Yahoo? »