Filesharing ok in Germany
Germany is set to become one of the world’s havens for filesharing activities. This comes as the German State Prosecution Service announces that they will no longer be following up most of the legal cases being brought up by copyright holder with regards to file sharing.
This means that individuals will be able to get away [...]
The Pirate Olympics
It is not always possible to watch sports events like the Olympics, simply because of the time zones from China, this means that the most popular heats and finals will be held during work times, so unless the boss allows a TV in where you work, then you are going to be missing out, or [...]
August 6, 2008YouTube cleans up
The video sharing site YouTube are preparing to make some sweeping changes in the wake of the high profile court case taken out by media giant Viacom.
It was through the court case that YouTube had to provide the court with a list of all YouTube members and their online activities. Although there was no possibility [...]
Mother uses internet for child’s illness
When Danielle Fisher aged, 13 fell ill, the first port of call would naturally be the local GP but when that fail to work then it was onto the local hospital. However, after six months the girls symptoms of fatigue and headaches remained undiagnosed.
However, when all else fails there is only one place to [...]
April 1, 2008Virgin Media cracks down on down loaders
It looks as if the first UK internet company to crack down on illegal down loaders of music and films will be Virgin Media. What the record companies are looking for is a warning system to be put in place, this is expected to take the form of a three strikes and you are out [...]
March 13, 2008File sharing sites blocked
Israel’s biggest ISP has been ordered by a court to block access to certain file sharing and torrent sites, which has done very little to stop people from visiting these sites. In fact there is a lot to be said about keeping quiet about things as the publicity generated by this case has caused even [...]
February 6, 2008Policing web advertising
Advertising on the internet is you would have thought a serious business, but with revenues for the year 2007, the figure was around $36 billion which is a lot of money, but still only around eight per cent of the annual advertising spend across the globe, so there is much scope for improvement or is [...]
January 29, 2008Same server search
There is a handy little tool around which will allow you to check up on other websites to see if they are hosted on the same server, this can come in very handy sometimes.
You Get Signal have introduced the Reverse IP Domain Check, this will give you a quick and easy way of tracking domains [...]
Torrents under attack
There is a little known war going on between the torrent sites and an organisation named Scene, their sole purpose is to totally eradicate all torrents, with tags like “Destroying the P2P’s, one step at a time”.
We already saw when Super torrents had their donations hacked and donated to charity; this is the sort of [...]
Digg users hit back a Facebook dumper
Dumping your boyfriend via Face Book is not normally a great idea, and yet as will know that is exactly what Sandra Soroka did, and some may say that she had actually got away with, after all she did accumulate over 1,600 votes on Digg.
But like with many a seal of approval could also mean [...]
Generating website traffic
It’s a simple fact that no traffic to your website means no visitors and therefore it stands to reason that no money will be made. After all what is the point of creating a wonderful website if nobody is going to see it?
Paying for traffic can be expensive it all depends on your business, for [...]
Googles games means advertising heaven
Webmasters of games and other related sites may find that Google will have some great advertising opportunities soon with the purchase of the ad firm Adspace who place in game adverts; this is a serious advertising opportunity as the ads can be placed to appeal to certain groups of people depending on what the game [...]
November 7, 2007Free webmaster tool
Having a counter on the website is a very useful tool, it lets the other users know how busy the site is, and there is no pulling of punches when the exact number of visitors is there for all to see.
But these tools do tend to cost money, but not always, this is a tool [...]
Google puts price on results
The French based blog, Zorgloob has discovered what the Google guys see when they do a search. The results returned are as normal except for the slight difference of a dollar value placed at the end of the listing.
The figures are said to be related to Adsense, but these figures also turn up in the [...]
Earnings from affiliate schemes
Having built a website and you have seen the traffic increase to what could be considered a reasonable amount, so is that it? Where do you go from there? The obvious route would be to see if you can turn this successful website into something that makes some money for you.
The two main ways both [...]
Great Bookmarking Tool
Bookmarking your sites can take a lot of time, this costs money as you could be getting on with something else that is more practical and worthwhile. But here is a nice way to manage all of your bookmarks in an easy manner with Only Wire and it is free!!
Not only does it do [...]
Petition to bring back TV Links
Zero Paid are launching a petition to save TV Links the site that was closed down by the UK Police. The 26 year old webmaster was arrested, but later released with no charge why? Well it would seem that the site contained no pirated material or anything like it, all it had was links to [...]
October 24, 2007The Google Watchdog returns
A good resource for webmasters has returned with some more information that will inform and educate on the latest developments that are in the pipeline or that may already happened at Google HQ without many people knowing about it.
Its always a great idea to have the heads up on Google, as this can have an [...]
Google helps manage site links
A site is what appears on a search, you may have seen them. They offer the searcher to go directly to a certain page on your site. But sometimes this is not what you want, because you need your visitors to look through your site, not go directly to one page and then disappear.
Well you [...]
Parasiteware can damage your wealth
When a visitor clicks on one of your affiliate links, you expect to be paid when the commission has been earned, but if the visitor has a form of parasiteware on their computer, then it is possible they you will not be paid!
This software will overwrite the information in the cookie giving the parasite the [...]