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