Quick update on my BANS (Build a Niche Store) holdings. January 27th came in with our 20th site in this segment. Each store is monetized across several streams. This is to prevent a catastrophe of any one company from impacting the bottom line too heavily. The purpose of a BANS site is to set them [...]
We’ve been teaching Ollie a fun game. Take all the Sunday newspaper circulars and go through them, one page at a time. Every person has to point to one thing on the page they will buy. One thing that they need. Or want. Val says she played the game as a kid and the Sears [...]
This will obviously cause quite a stir in the blogging world. Reading through the Izea townhall meeting transcript a few statements stuck in my mind as encouraging for everyone involved. First, Izea is a fast moving target not easily thrown off course by Google’s attempt at censoring bloggers through PR (pagerank) deletion (Google Smacking). Second, [...]
I’ve been asked by the good folks at OverStock to check out their Game-O-Love. The very first thing that needs to take place before we begin is a disclaimer. I love Overstock.com. OK, with that said let’s start by letting you know that prizes may be in your future if you visit GameOLove dot [...]
“Ask.com Nabs Former Google Exec” sent my mind spinning through possibilities of wonderous synergy ideas. In the article it states that Cesar Mascaraque, previously of Google, has been hired by Ask.com as their European managing director. Good for Cesar. My mental fourth of July moment was an Izea & Ask collaboration encouraging the use of [...]
I don’t spend much time talking about my day job. Don’t get me wrong — I’m extremely proud of where I work and the job I’m tasked with completing. We’re (I say we because it’s only as a team that we succeed) a dedicated team of departments. It’s the type of job were one minute [...]
Roughly speaking the flow of spam doubled in ‘07. Whispers are swirling that Yahoo!’s CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) could be compromised up to 35% of the time. This according to “John Wane” a security researcher *read blackhat* from Russia.
Not seeing the main media sources out there picking [...]