A few weeks back I decided to try something other than just cranking out ‘one more’ niche portal. I decided to learn and experiment with building lists and promoting to them. So with that in mind, I enrolled as an affiliate for a new product that was on the brink of a huge online launch. I slapped up a grabber page for the same and started advertising on yahoo/overture … and did something which I never intended to do … forgot about it !!!
Its been estimated by Technorati that over 75,000 blogs are being added to the WWW’s blogosphere everyday. That’s like having a blog every second !!
I tried to look for some more interesting figures and landed on David Sifry’s blog. Here are some images that will give you an idea of the phenomenal growth that ‘blogs’ have acheived.
Picture Courtesy : Technorati and David Sifry’s Blog
Summary:
Business 2.0 Magazine’s senior writers, Michael V. Copeland and Om Malik, claim now is the time for entrepreneurs, to make the most out of the new technologies which are creating new business opportunities, and radically reducing costs for startups. But they warn … Success is as difficult as ever !
So, why such a statement? Probably, due to the notable upsurge in VC funding for any business idea tagged(pun intended) as Web 2.0 … well that would be normal considering the fact social networking sites like myspace and the likes were acquired for multi-million $’s !!
Recieved a rather funny Email from my friend Mahesh this morning. Thought I’d share it with all of you reading the blog …
In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viaaagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Came across an interesting article while going through the weekly newsletter from Axandra. It talks about Google’s new spider and its implications to your adwords ads and webpages. I’ll follow it up with some commentary on keyword arbitrage. Checkout …
Google is using a new crawler software program for their AdWords advertising system that automatically spiders and analyzes the content of advertising landing pages. The name of the new crawler is AdsBot-Google. If you see such an entry in your web logs then your web site been visited by the new bot.
How Will This Affect Your Adwords Ads?
I had always wanted to write a post on providing technical support through remote desktop sharing. Infact, I had even placed an e-PostIt on my desktop to remind me that I need to blog on this subject … !
Why this urge?
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