I learned at Search Engine Guide that Yahoo. released a new version of YM. Are you a YM fan? You’ll probably appreciate the new features:

Updated Contact List Look – Contact avatars are larger than it was before, users can hover on individual contacts to send IM, SMS or Call.
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Yahoo Messenger 9.0- Revival?

I recently purchased a Playstation 3. Upon setting up the system, I discovered that for full sensory experience, my tired ole 36″ CRT TV just won’t do. Colors simply look washed out regardless of the setting tweaking. The PS3 manual recommended an HDTV.

But wow! Don’t those things cost an arm, a leg, and 4 PS3s? This was a fix. Spending $700 on a PS3 only to find it unusable depressed me. Sigh.

I fired up MySimon.com and all those comparative shopping sites. Perhaps I could find an HDTV for cheap?

How wrong I was. Most cost $1500 onwards. Way off my budget.

Michelle, my eternal flame, then pointed out a great supplier of refurbished HDTVs. I surfed the site and found deals that simply looked too good to be true!

Do prices of $800 grab your fancy? It did mine!

So what’s the catch? SecondAct manages to pull off midnight sales because all their products are factory refurbished, factory closeouts, overstocks, end-of-life, and open box items. If you don’t mind purchasing units like this, this site’s for you. No other dealer can match their price.

Did that snazzy $700 device just clunk out- when you left the store?
Did that ‘deal’ at Honest Fred’s turn out to be cheap thrills- for the seller?

Now you can take revenge and make sure that everyone knows about these shysters. Broadcast your anger at the ScamsUnited. It’s an authority site, bustling with traffic and bursting with complaints on your fave scammers.

Be heard. And fight back!

More dirt has emerged regarding the Apple/Universal deal that turned rotten. According to an article in Variety, the deal went south when NBC Universal wanted to raise the price of hot properties like “Heroes” by a dollar, to $2.99, in…

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With the introduction of the iPhone and the latest iPods, my inbox is overflowing with press releases about the requisite cases for all this Apple goodness. Most cases are retreads from existing lines, so — with the exception of the…

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Last year I wrote about how the International Digital Publishing Forum was working on creating a unified file format for e-readers, saving publishers the trouble of having to choose from one (or, more frequently, several) of the many formats out…

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First, text link ads services fell with the TLA network dropping from pagerank 7 to pagerank 0. You can’t even find them by name on google anymore.

Then bloggers who sold links plummeted. Johnchow.com took the first rough tumble- from PR6 to PR4.

Then this morning, I discovered that my fave automated link exchange program Gotlinks.com shed PR from 6 to 4 as well.

Hmmmm… seems to me that Google frowns on advertising on the web if it isn’t Google-powered.

Frightening! Does this mean we fellas have to go through the Big G before making a buck on promotions?

Do you sell links on your website? Aha! I saw all of you nodding. Watch it. Google will lop off your heads. Well- maybe figuratively.

A major pagerank update is going on and scores of industry heavyweights have bled pagerank. Imagine- a PR10 site plummeting to PR4. The crime: selling links on the site.

Check out the latest victims

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.forbes.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.suntimes.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.sfgate.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.statcounter.com/ PR10 to PR6
http://www.masternewmedia.org/ PR7 to PR4
http://www.autoblog.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.engadget.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.problogger.net/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.copyblogger.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.joystiq.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.tuaw.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.searchengineguide.com/ PR7 to PR4
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ PR7 to PR4
http://www.johnchow.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/ PR6 to PR3
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://andybeard.eu/ PR5 to PR3
http://www.seroundtable.com/ PR7 to PR4
http://www.blogherald.com/ PR6 to PR4

Google issues a stern warning to webmasters: build quality content and links will follow. Forcing link growth is a no-no. If you buy and sell links, you’re going to get knocked off from your lofty pagerank perch. Your inbound traffic’s gonna belly up from there.

How many of you still dare sell links?

More of this at SearchEngineLand: http://searchengineland.com/071024-093938.php

It’s true, there’s a greater overpopulation of iPod speakers than even Bugaboos. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love me a weird-looking system.The WakeUp alarm-clock-cum-iPod speaker from Boynq features three LCD screens that display the hour, the minute, and the…

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My advice to the folks who love automation: don’t. This is particularly true of Windows Updates option in Vista.

When automatic updates is activated, Vista takes the latest updates and patches your system without user intervention. That’s a bad thing. Why? Because more and more users are reporting how some patches and drivers destroy activation and dumps the user back to reduced functionality mode. You get only 30 minutes of internet surfing, then the PC locks you out!

Check out the KezNews newsbulletin on it.

I personally experienced this shenanigans myself. A desktop PC locked-up just the other day when a new driver was changed. Now I gotta get a new code from M$

It helps to google the KB number of the update before downloading and installing. Any bad rap? Then avoid till a better patch comes out. Just like that animated cursor patch that caused great harm!

Yesiree! Here’s anothe fun and dandy little device that promises to shed my marbled fat while I watch TV with a tub of popcorn. Their ad tickled me pink!

By using Ston-O-Max you’ll be able to get the body you’ve always wanted. The Ston-O-Max is the first and only machine that utilizes the patented CBS (Centrifugal Body Stimulation) technology. Its elliptical motion causes muscles to contract and in turn build muscle and break down fat

Sure sure sure. It’s another Osim clone (remember the Uzap endorsed by those oh so sexy chinese girls?). If I wanted the same effect, I may as well pile my girlfriend’s ten vibrators on my stomach and vibrate away.

Last time I used a similar device was two years ago. All I got was a backache.

Everyone knows how skewed alexa rankings are to favor webmaster/SEO sites. Problem is, most folks still refer to alexa rank as a valuation tool when you try selling ads. Got low rank? Then soreeeee. They’ll pay you a cents and dimes.

You can run a blog focused on worms and bees and enjoy 10,000 unique visitors a day- but if none of your visitors have the alexa toolbar installed- then your alexa rank looks pathetic. So you can’t sell ads.

I’ve found a better measure of traffic in the form of Quantcast. Sign up for a free account, plug in java code into your site and the service starts measuring the real amount of visitors to your site. Helpful stats, such as demographics, unique hits and all that jazz are then displayed on Quantcast’s pages for advertisers to admire.

Finally- you can charge top dollar for all that web traffic you command!

Can there be a knock off vendor with honor? Hmm… that sounds like an oxymoron.

But truly there is!

My fashionista sister recently stumbled across a site selling imitations of brands without passing them off as originals like 1000s of miscreants out there.

Visit Highreplica. Right on the frontpage, they tell you that their stuff is all imitation. That doesn’t bother me though. Their prices are superb and my sister received an LV that looked just like the real deal she got at the LV store. Down to the date codes!

Now, no one can tell you’re carrying a -ahem – fake.

I just returned from Australia four hours ago. The place was memorable! Superb beaches, azure skies, delicious women, and Zunic!

Err… what??

My aussie mates took me to a wellness place that offered a system of fat burning. The chided me how lousy my gut looked. It dangled over my $800 Hermes belt like sad blubber. But no sweat they said. For $100, I can burn off an inch with Zunic.

What the hell. With 12 hours before my return flight to CA, why not? And if it works, the $100 wouldn’t have been wasted on a large Dominos pizza that would have swollen my gut further.

The sexy therapist looked like she’s been Zunicing all her life. Not an inch of fat on her body. If I looked 1/10th as good as her, my social life would be glowing better than the dull candle stick it is right now.

So I fell asleep while she got me through the paces.

And I woke up. Man, my gut was red and sore– but… wow! I really did lose a big chunk. Proof? I had to tighten my belt a notch.

Looks like Im definitely coming back for this. Both for the Zunic and the therapist!

Shameless Reviews moved domain late last year from the old reallycoolreviews.com Now despite the relatively new domain, we’ve already jumped to PR3 and iwebtool predicts we can make it to PR5 within the next pagerank update. We get 500MB of traffic daily too.

I gotta tip my hat to the search engine optimization experts that helped us in our online success. You helped us get our groove back!

May your tribe increase

This morning, my friend was griping. He had 10,000 backlinks to his online travel agency, but he ranked next to nowhere for relevant keywords.

Digging a bit, I found out the reason. Poor ole Mark’s backlinks came mostly from articles he submitted to free article directories like EzineArticles. The articles link back to his site with his name “Mark Black”. No, he didn’t use “Travel Agency” or “Online Tickets”. He used “Mark Black.” See what’s wrong here??

No wonder google won’t rank him for relevant words. Google would associate ‘mark black’ with his web site.

I told him to dump the ego and get rid of his name. Use relevant anchor text for his backlinks and he’ll get somewhere fast.

Here’s an excellent article on the topic of anchor text