geek stuff
StumbleUpon Paid Ads Feedback
I have been using StumbleUpon’s Paid Ads for a few weeks now, and have some feedback.
Biggest thing: Budgets
Right now you can set a daily budget for all your ads, which seems cool but is really ineffective. This is compounded by some of the problems below and I will get into those. Yes I know you [...]
What Happened to Jason Calacanis?
I used to read Jason’s blog all the time. Nowadays I can just get a pulse of what the hotbutton issues are for the day, and visualize what his blog looks like. Link to Mahalo SERP page for this, link to Mahalo SERP page for that.
Right now Jason has 15 articles on the front page [...]
Google Adsense Channels are not reporting
So for the last three days Google Adsense has not been reporting properly. I guess I am spoiled by the big G always being so on point, so I am a little confused by this one. The situation is when you login to your normal Adsense control panel you are presented with an overall view [...]
Microsoft Punks Hollywood - Nerds Always Win!!!
Remember when Halo 3 came out? People went nuts, long lines and all that, and by the end of the weekend the game had brought in over $170 million, making it the LARGEST ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE EVER.
Feeling punked already, some Hollywood guy named Mike Hickey, an analyst at Janco Partners, commented, “The audience on this [...]
People DO get arrested for linking to stuff on the internet
Popular TV streaming site TV Links has been shut down and the owner arrested. I won’t link to it here because someone has put up a typical domain parking page for the clueless traffic. Keep in mind this guy, who lives in the UK, wasn’t hosting any copyrighted content. He wasn’t stealing anything. He LINKED [...]
Stuff You Didn’t Know
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The word “set” has more definitions than [...]
Digg’s Banning/Unbanning/Burying Policy Needs Help
A few weeks ago, I was shocked to find Zeropaid.com had been banned from Digg for “spam.” I don’t have the exact quote for reference here, but I recall it being something like “This domain has been widely reported for spamming the digg community.”
Let me explain a little bit about our news and how we [...]
Local rental ads via stumble! Awesome!
Wow. Someone write this down as a historical day for internet marketing. Oh wait, I am. Let me preface this by saying I use StumbleUpon a lot. I am an avid Stumbler and Stumble Marketer, and I participate in a lot of group Stumble marketing so when I find a new technique that seems intruiging, [...]
New Skin
Put up a new skin yesterday and been playing with it. I think it is a little more readable than the other one, the fonts were just too small. Or maybe I am getting too old and just can’t see anymore
At any rate, I am going to continue to clean this place up, [...]
Finally on Pownce
I finally made it to Pownce, check out my profile here. Seems pretty cool so far, I will probably post more thoughts here later.
Let me know if you need invites, I have a bunch.
