A Weird Soul

mind of an aquarian…

Cheap web development

One of my contacts at Linkedin asked a really good question. I was thinking about a business model related toit a few days ago. I wanted to share it with non-linkedin folks.
Question:
What would you like to see in a web development and web solution providing company, serving the web needs of individuals, home/ family businesses, […]

College Classifieds

I heard a lot about college classified sites late last year. A few of them were dormitem, CollegeMedium and chegg. AFAIK Chegg is the leader in this niche. They got $2.2 Million funding in January 2007 and got a $500,000 funding in an earlier round.
I was looking at traffic stats for all these sites on […]

Today’s Toy Hunt

I forgot all about it until now. I wonder if they add a new clue @ 12:00 PST?
Today’s clue was Beijing, China and just like yesterday the box was open
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Toy Hunt on Google Earth

Google has started an interesting promotion for Google Earth. They will provide a clue everyday till 24th Dec. and solution of the clue will get you to “a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image”. The location of the toy will be revealed next day. Blog post on Google’s blog does not clarify if […]

New Google Finance

I am not a hardcore Stock Market observer, but do have a general sense of what is going on and what trends look like. I use Yahoo Finance most of the time. It provides a good service with the portfolio. Google Finance a fairly newer service has certain things that appeal to me.
Google does not […]

Google-Yahoo copying wars

I was shocked to find out that Google copied a page from Yahoo. I was waiting for them to pull it off their website or change it and a response from them. They changed the page after a few hours, but have not released any official statement.
Matt Cutts from Google posted (unofficial) yet another interesting […]

Is google safesearch really safe?

I wonder how nobody noticed it? Most of us know that Google lets users choose Safe Search Filtering, but did we ever wonder if it works?
No, I am not talking about certain results that sneak in coz they can not be identified by Google’s algorithms.
Let’s try this: (warning: contains link to “explicit” content, […]

Google Adsense API is here

It is official now!
Here are the key features for the API:
What can I do with the AdSense API?
Using the AdSense API, you can enable users to perform a variety of AdSense functions without leaving your website, including the following:
- Create an AdSense account
- Manage an AdSense account
- Create and modify AdSense for content ad units […]

Zookoda

I read about Zookoda at problogger. I investigate more about RSS 2 Email services and found this helpful link. I think I would have liked Yutter too, but I already had signed up w/ Zookoda, so I used it for one of my upcoming blogs.
I had another idea of “contextual” email subscription since a few […]

Wow… I found something really strange. A site with Adsense and YPN together on the same page at same time. Did Adsense and/or YPN change their policies?
The page has 3 Google Adsense and 2 YPN Ads on the same page and as usual Adsense is more contextual than YPN.

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