Archive for the 'General Information' Category

Shoemoney sold AuctionAds

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Shoemoney has confirmed Techcrunch’s report that AuctionAds is sold to MediaWhiz.
AuctionAds was launched as a partnership between Shoemoney Media and MediaWhiz in March 2007 and experienced amazing growth… and now it’s fully acquired by MediaWhiz.
Both parties didn’t enclose the price.

Google writes a bad check

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Google is probably the last company that you would expect to write you a bounced check… but it did happen.
Mobilejones has the amazing (and hysterical story) [via John Chow]

Feedburner is all free

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Feedburner is making its stats PRO and My Brand service free.
Interesting move after the acquisition of Google some weeks ago.

PPP Launch marketplace

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Payperpost launched their marketplace as direct competition with Reviewme.
With the extra $7mil fund from its investors; it would be interesting to see how PPP will fair in the next few months.
Their biggerst problem however, could be the poor quality of publishers… lots of blogs are set up simply for the purpose of making money from […]

Google acquired feedburner

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

It’s official, Google acquired Feedburner.
Well, not every thing that Google touches would turn into gold… but the purchase of Feedburner is definitely something exciting. With Google’s advertising network and Feedburner users’ readership, it should provide some good monetizing option for bloggers with strong subscriber base.
Hope that Feedburner will continue to provide excellent service regardless […]

Blogger salaries and linkbaiting

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Paula Neal Mooney has compiled a list of blogging salary. It’s not a good list really, untrustable facts and lots of misses here and there… but hey, what a great linkbaiting effort, Paula even got a mention from Problogger.

Google open office in Singapore

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Google has opened their Southeast Asian offices in Singapore which will represent ad sales in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand etc. [Searchenginejournal]
I wonder what benefits it bring to the region Google Adwords and Adsense users; I can only think of cheaper phone calls to the support department at the moment.
The online-money-making community in Southeast Asia doesn’t […]

Find yourself an enemy…

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

An interesting article from Brian Clark - Do You Have an Enemy? Here’s Why You Need to Find One.
It’s about building rapport… that’s probably why some anti-government blogs are doing so well, because the bloggers and readers have a common enemy aka the government.