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Honda
Links Up With Google Earth
New Honda Civics in the Japanese market will have the capability to retrieve traffic
information using Google Earth. The service, called the InterNavi Floating Car
System, is available to subscribers as part of the InterNavi Premium Club, a navigational
service.
Printed
Yellow Pages Adopts Pay-Per-Call
Art imitating life, Web imitating print, and now it's print imitating Web. Since
December, says the Associated Press, Verizon has been testing an auction model
in its printed Boston Yellow Pages.
Is
Google Forsaking The Webmaster?
Google may be tired of Webmasters taking advantage of its sensitive algorithms
through link abuse and repeated keyword digs. With no one else to turn to, the
engine that launched a million splogs...
About.com
Goes Cable TV
Signaling the continuing convergence of television, Internet, and Web 2.0, About.com
just inked an agreement with consumer product review network Expo TV. The agreement
moves About.com informational consumer videos...
Vista
To Feature Tighter Parental Controls
The long awaited (and waited, and waited) Microsoft operating system, Vista, will
include heightened parental controls that allow parents to grant permission before
unauthorized users try to view websites...
MSNBC.com
Goes Mobile, Too
MSNBC.com just launched a beta of its new mobile news service. The service is
ad-supported and free to wireless users (except for the charge they may incur
from wireless providers).
Google
Tests Mobile Web Ads In Japan
Google has just wrapped up a successful test for advertising via mobile phones
in Japan, according to Bloomberg.
Adobe
Flashes Verizon Wireless
Adobe and Verizon shook hands on a deal that will incorporate Adobe's recently
won Flash technology into Verizon mobile phones.
Combing
The Shadows of MySpace
With every bright light comes the shadows - the dark edges ignored, even tolerated,
for joy of illumination. MySpace.com's brightness is blinding to a new generation
of bloggers and marketers, but there are shadows (lots of them) lurking...
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WPW Discussion Posts |
Google Hates My Site!
My site was recently disapproved in continuing their service in my site imperial-appliance-plaza.com.
They did send an email notifying me that Adwords advertisers link site are being
repeatedly click and I can't do anything about it.
Penalized?
My sites all went down in August because of a server crash. I have oodles of those
old pages still indexed in Google but not a whole lot of the new ones. She thinks
they might have penalized me for some reason. Is there much point on working on
the site anymore?
Give Me An Idea!
I have started building a new website. It is in my signature. But I don't really
know what I want to make it about. All I know is I want to make it and get practice.
Can you give me some ideas?
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MySpace.com has garnered a lot of attention lately as the 70 million member
website became teen phenom. Though the loyal membership was richly concerned with
the News Corp. buyout, many have noted that Intermix Media had cloudy and questionable
history.
Editor's Note: Was MySpace undervalued when it was sold
to News Corp. for $580 million? MySpace competitor Facebook recently asked Viacom
for $2 billion, but doesn't have quite the success story. Sound off about this
question or start your own topic at SyndicationPro.
 This
is Part 2 of a two-part series. For Part 1 click here.
It may have never
occurred to the charter members of MySpace, that being run by a media juggernaut
like News Corp. would be a positive.
Perhaps coinciding with News Corp.'s purchase of Intermix (the reference here posts these two happenings on the same day), the MySpace terms of use were conspicuously changed. The earlier version (i.e., pre-News Corp.) was much more exploitative of users.
By posting Content on any public area of MySpace.com, you automatically grant as well as represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to MySpace.com… an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content to MySpace.com. MySpace.com has the right to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
It was changed, according to the source, to the following:
By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to MySpace.com the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Website.
Dudeck was quick to distance MySpace.com from any association from Intermix Media, Inc., calling the operations "very separate," and with good reason. News Corp. is not Intermix, and one may assume, from News Corp.'s perspective, MySpace is also not Intermix.
Our journey begins with Trent Lapinski, now CEO of AppleXnet.com, and then a young journalist who claimed, that after researching a "web of controversy" surrounding the founders of MySpace.com, specifically MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, he was sent a letter from their legal team threatening to sue him if the article was published.
"He was accusing MySpace of criminal behavior. He was warned that printing mistruths could make him liable for defamation," said Dudeck, who was not with MySpace at the time of the alleged incident.
In response, Lapinski told WebProNews that he hadn't made any accusations toward DeWolfe specifically, but had questioned the activities of executives in connection with DeWolfe.
These activities of his associates involve banking scandals, spyware and adware, and spamming. The allegations are almost "guilt by association" in nature, and included a link of MySpace executives with supplying adware to file-sharing network Kazaa.
Dudeck disputes this claim. "We absolutely do not distribute spyware," she said, "nor does MySpace or its founders have any connection to Kazaa."
The first part is certainly true. The second part, though, is only technically true. Again, it is a matter of those associated with the founders, and more specifically Intermix Media, Inc.
Intermix Media was formerly eUniverse.com, a company that changed its name after authoring a threat advisory about its own adware that secretly installed itself onto user computers via free downloadable screen savers, online games and others. And, from the threat advisory:
The EUniverse.PerfectNav variant is bundled with the Free Ad Supported version of Kazaa Media Desktop 2.6. and also likely to be found in software supplied by eUniverse sites, such as thunderdownloads.com, myfreecursors.com, cursorzone.com and mycoolscreen.com.
About a year ago, New York Attorney General sued Intermix Media, alleging that the firm was the source of spyware and adware secretly installed on millions of home computers. Intermix settled out of court for $7.9 million.
But before the suit, there was an investigation, according to Intermix founder and largest shareholder Brad Greenspan, who left the company in 2003.
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Yahoo
Posts Publisher Network Blog
 By
David Utter
Yahoo has followed up last fall's launch of its Publisher Network with a new blog
focused on helping users of its self-serve platform.
A few members of the Yahoo Publisher Network team have posted messages of greeting to their new blog at YPNblog.com.
Michael Mattis, Yahoo! Publisher Network Blog Editor, wrote how the site will operate like a typical blog, but with a few nifty extras:
Each week we'll choose a publisher who is doing something groovy or out of the ordinary and link to his or her site. Do you know a publisher who fits that description? Maybe it's you.
In addition, we'll be posting interviews and profiles of successful publishers so you can learn from their experience and find out about best practices, top tips and tricks of the trade you can use. We'll also feature guest columns by noted publishers, industry leaders, thinkers and futurists designed to help you see ahead to where the Web - and your market - is going.
Mattis also noted how they plan to track various related news and conversations they see that are related to publishing. They also plan to disclose updates, plugins, and enhancements to the Publisher Network there.
Will Johnson, VP and General Manager, Yahoo! Publisher Network, emphasized how they wish to create a dialog with their network members. "We want you to engage with us to shape current and future products and services that we deliver," he wrote.
Other posts from the blog's debut report on a handful of updates and enhancements
that have been made to YPN, including its terms
and conditions. "Under these new policies, web sites that distribute adware,
spyware or trackware may not display Yahoo! Publisher Network ads," a post said.
About
the Author:
David is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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Sandbox Or Lack Of SEO?
Below, we have a poster who believes she's been in Google's sandbox for the past
11 months and she is wondering if there is a remedy. However, once you "pop
the hood" on her site, you realize that A. she's targeting an extremely competitive
set of keywords (web design) and B. the site, while being very well put together,
seems to be missing some key ingredients, from an SEO perspective, to be truly
successful. Take a look at the site and the post in question and see what advice
you can give.
|| Chris||
11
Months in the Sandbox.... Help me Out?
I launched my business and my website
in May 2005. Business is great, and I'm indexed in Yahoo, MSN etc. but not in
Google for my major keywords, the top ones in my META keywords tag.
My pages validate, I keep adding and revising text content, I revise my keywords
list every so often based on my statistics. I Google for my site based on my top
keywords once per month or more and I've never shown up in the top 30 pages. I've
optimized my pages, the same way I do for my clients (maybe not quite as thoroughly)
and my client pages *are* showing up in searches in the top 2-6 pages in most
cases.
I'd really appreciate any helpful advice - what else can I do? Have I done something really obviously wrong that I just don't see?
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Does Google penalizes sites that use the word "Directory" or "Companies" in the
HTML title or meta description?
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