I recently wrote an article for Website Magazine that will be published in the August issue.  The article covers deal negotiation with Internet ad networks and affiliate programs, maximizing your site’s earning potential, and how to conduct the legwork to put you in good positioning for a higher revenue share from your ad provider.
The article [...]

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I doubt I’m the first to see this, but I certainly won’t be the last - a spammer just started following me on the popular micro-blogging service, Twitter.  With a name of diecastmodelcar, I immediately thought this was the case,  and clicking on the account’s link confirmed my suspicion:

A Twitter spammer.  The language used certainly [...]

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Yan Bezugliy at ProBargainHunter.com created a Shopzilla Wordpress Plugin that makes price comparison integration within a blog post insanely easy. Users just need to provide their own Publisher ID and API key to use it (those can be attained by registering for the Shopzilla Publisher Program).
Here’s an example of the plugin in action, comparing [...]

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I’m heading to the TechCrunch party in Hollywood on Thursday… the theme? Geek-meets-chic. So witty.
Why not crash the fun? Here’s the info:
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm - midnight
Venue: Vanguard, 6021 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Who else is going?

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For anyone who recently tried to view this site in Internet Explorer, my apologies for the following error message that you probably received:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.
Operation aborted.
This pop-up message occurred because the default ScratchBack JavaScript code that I used tries to modify the parent container from inside a child <div> container.  The [...]

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A new site called Infochimps is making available tons of *huge* datasets for free.
There are many sources to find out something about everything. Until now, there’s been no good place for you to find [...]

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Wired is reporting on the recent AdWords CPC increases that have taken a toll on arbitragers and others. The argument in favor of these increases is that it allows Google to display fewer (but more relevant) ads, thus increasing the CTR.  On the flip side, some ad buyers are saying that it simply costs more [...]

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I upgraded my blogging platform to WordPress 2.5… there are some pretty big improvements over 2.3.x on the admin side, including a cleaner interface and dashboard widgets (full feature list here).
If you’re blogging, you should consider using WordPress, and if you’re using WordPress, you should upgrade to version 2.5. Of course, there will [...]

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LinkedIn, my favorite of the social networks, has rolled out an awesome new feature called Company Profiles (as reported in TechCrunch, full walk-through available here). Heretofore, I used LinkedIn as a rolodex and for competitive intelligence, but this new feature is truly game changing.
The user-supplied information, though prone to all sorts of error, gives [...]

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My old pal, Ben, over at Abobe of Clarus is reporting that he has freshly scored the new MacBook Air. Me? I’ve been running on this same AMD Athlon for the past 4 or 5 years. At the office, I’m very happy running a 20″ iMac with dual processors and plenty of [...]

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