Year 2006 is almost gone, and this blog celebrates its first 5 months of existence. It started on blogger, then moved to its own domain after a couple of weeks and some tens of posts. It survived one Fark, three StumbleUpon Buzz entries, and two Netscape front page entries. After the experience of a cheap [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
What does a urinal have in common with the internet biggest google whores?
December 23, 2006 – 6:47 pm
What is this? One of those jokes we used to tell when we were kids? Not at all. The world’s most high-tech urinal and Internet’s biggest Google whores are two of the posts that made a blog famous. Any of you could have written those posts, but out of all bloggers, their author was John [...]
Google Duplicate Content Penalty and DupPrevent
December 22, 2006 – 8:15 am
As many of you may have noticed, the duplicate content penalty applied by Google is the subject of many online discussions.
This is what Google officials advise webmasters:
It’s also important to keep in mind that our crawlers don’t index duplicate content, so creating identical sites at several domains will likely not result in their returning for [...]
How many readers do you really have?
December 21, 2006 – 5:35 pm
Figures fascinated humankind even from oldest times. Many of us are interested in all kind of statistics, related or not to our jobs or to our lives. When it comes to blogging, checking statistics can easily become addictive (by the way: how many hours ago did you last checked on your Google AdSense statistics for [...]
Drug-Free Treatment of Allergic Diseases
December 17, 2006 – 10:15 am
Allergic diseases affect millions of people, all over the world. Only in Germany, there are 30 millions allergic people, the total population being of 90 millions. Hundreds of tests are performed for each patient, in order to determine the cause of their allergies: bacteria, fungus, dust, pollen, or many others, and allergy medicine is a [...]
The AGLOCO Viewbar launch officially announced
December 17, 2006 – 5:35 am
The AGLOCO officials have just announced that the Viewbar is going to be launched in 7 to 10 weeks:
“… we decided to tell Members our internal range for release of the Viewbar software – we expect to be able to release the first phase of the Viewbar in 7 to 10 weeks. There are many [...]
The AllAdvantage 2.0 of being an early bird
December 16, 2006 – 11:54 am
There is this old saying that the early bird catches the worm. Well, we shall soon see how this applies to more recent times, because I’ve read that AGLOCO is going to announce the launch of the Viewbar later on today. They have an ambitious target of 10.000.000 members by July 1st, 2007, as stated [...]
Microsoft launched a patch by mistake
December 15, 2006 – 9:24 am
Microsoft advised its Microsoft Office Mac version users, that a security patch launched by mistake via software update service, was not ready yet to be launched.
The company recommended those who installed the patch to uninstall it, without giving any information about the date when the final version would be available.
“The updates posted there by mistake [...]
Area 25: a life beyond depression
December 15, 2006 – 7:40 am
Some of you may know how life with a depressive person looks like. All of us have our ups and downs, and we can tell that we experienced days when nothing seems worth moving us out of bed, or out of house, or out of ourselves, out of the depression that surrounds us from everywhere. [...]
How high do you want to rank?
December 9, 2006 – 7:09 pm
Agloco has just introduced a new feature in the account details: your rank within all Agloco members. I was surprised to find out that I ranked in top 3.13% of all members. For those of you who don’t know, Agloco is a recently launched company which pays you to surf the net (details here).
The ranking [...]
