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Adsensi for domains & misspell corrections

I see Google is extending Adsense to domains starting in the US - blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch
This news will have had typosquatters up and down the country jumping for joy, ‘what economic crisis?’ ‘buy fireworks’, ‘organise a street parade!’
Not so fast Mr.Typo. Google-piss on your fireworks. Google-rain on your parade.
A small but none insignificant piece of news was [...]

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Cybersquatting, opportunism and a phone book

Merde ! Forgot to register the damn domain !
French Secretary of State Yves Jégo announced in November a new Government backed web site dedicated to promoting tourism to over-seas territories: Voyageoutremer.com. Alors - nobody registered the domain name.
Petit detail that didn’t go unnoticed by CLASH an assosiaton based on the island of St.Barthelemy, who slapped [...]

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Did you know you’re right here, right now?

Another stab at informing us - just what is actually going on - in 5 minutes flat … and then ends by asking us what it all means.
It sounds like we were all born yesterday and the Internet is 10 minutes old. How should we know?
At least now I know that during the course of [...]

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The naked Europeana

Europeana err…how’s it described again, the ‘Google Books Competitor’ the ‘digital library of European literature, art, history, and culture’ etc. anyway it hit the ground running head first today on it’s official launch date.
But then again we shouldn’t worry, in fact it’s been a poor victim of it’s own (sic)success (?) if you read some [...]

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Free file hosting : can’t get much better than this - can it?

Free file hosting services ?
Common as muck (see Mashable list)
Unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth - no capping, files that will never (never is a long time!) be erased?
Err, no don’t think I’ve seen that before. Think I’ll just sign up sharpish.
Impression?
Impressed.
Having said that, just remembered MediaFire have been doing much the same thing for a [...]

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3D driving maps mashup

I kif maps and map mashups and this is a natty little map-mash from Gaiagi to add to the photo explorer and flight tracker. It uses the Google Earth browser plugin which is still Windows only unfortunately.
Not only does Gaiagi take you on a virtual drive through Google Maps driving directions with the browser plug-in [...]

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FUD about hacked WordPress blogs

Lets dispell a little FUD about WordPress blogs being hacked into and used to dish-out porn, link-scams or pharm spam whatever.

It’s unlikely you’re going to receive any attention from Hackers including automated scripts, unless you have high PageRank and big PageView numbers.
If you keep up with the updated versions of WP this ‘unlikely’ wanes [...]

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22gigs free hosting raises the question:

Will you still love me tomorrow?

Another free hosting pack just up, complete with lip smacking quotas. 22gigs disk space; 1000MB Bandwidth - and there’s an ftp access - all for nothing.
So…its not bad is it? What do you want for your money nothing?
It takes 3 minutes to sign up, one minute later you’ve an empty [...]

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