Archive for September, 2005

SanDisk announced that they have integrated digital rights management (DRM) into a flash memory card. So? Sony has been doing it for years with MagicGate on their MemorySticks. Sure, MemorySticks were not picked up by many — but at this point, not many have signed up for TrustedFlash either. To kick [...]

Hmm…It seemed like just yesterday when Yahoo! Search announced that their search index was three times larger than Google’s. So, what happens when your rival has you beat? You remove your number from your page. Maybe it’s some ingenious social “algorithm” or something, but Google’s solution for when they get beat by [...]

Internet Explorer is a piece of garbage. That is my statement and that is what I’ll stand by. I tested my CSS layout code for the in-article ad last night with: Firefox (Mac and Win), Safari and Opera (Mac and Win). The layout looks perfect in all of them — the [...]

Tweaked Ads Again

Ok, I am tweaking the ad layout again. Originally, I had no ads running if you were navigating within the site. I changed my mind and tried running ads all the time (between content and comments). That was a bit annoying because I saw the ads. Also, when someone clicked “Comments” [...]

This is a comparison of Yahoo! Publisher Network vs. Google AdSense. A while back, I switched over to YPN to give it a shot, I wrote an earlier comparison, but thought that it would be good to revisit the comparison after I had an almost equal amount of Ad Impressions served.
Yesterday, I reached 6,600 [...]

The poor Butler, Jeeves at Ask.com has been giving his walking papers. Yes, he’s virtual, but still…The poor guy. AskJeeves.com will soon be known only as Ask.com. Boring? A little. Corporate sounding? A lot. Do I like it? Yea, I think it is a good move. [...]

Here is an interesting article. It both praises and kicks Google around. It is basically looking at the Google front page and debating whether Google should “clutter” it up like Yahoo! or MSN — you know, in another “innovative” move to catch up with its competitors and becoming a full-blown portal.
The comparison that [...]