Tom Markiewicz

The Washington Post has an insightful article on click fraud.

To Texas-based Auctions Expert International LLC, it was an easy way to make money on the Internet. Sign up with Google, which functions as a kind of online ad agency, and agree to let the online giant place ads on your Web site. Then, every time someone clicks on one of the ads, the advertiser pays a fee, and Google shares that fee with Auctions Expert.

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Six Apart releases Movable Type 3.16 (via Matt Mullenweg) and says there are over 100 significant improvements to application security, usability and reliability. This sounds like a fantastic release as I saw numerous complaints about the prior release(s) not having enough improvements.
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This may not be news to some, but Google Code was released rather quietly in what looks mid to late March. I just happened to stumble on it here, but I figure more people know about this and I’ve just been oblivious to the development (pun intended).
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Gawker launched a new site in their network yesterday called Sploid. From the site’s description,

Sploid is a news site with a tabloid mentality — top stories up top, played big, as fast as they break. If there’s a political line, it’s anarcho-capitalist: sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right.

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I at first thought this site was some kind of late April Fools joke, but no, its true. And somehow, I’m strangely fascinated by it. How can you resist a site where you can request an object be melted by a solar death ray?

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The BBC has an article on Google beginning an experiment in video blogging. The company plans to archive video clips.

Video blogging - vlogging - is still a new phenomenon but is expected to take off as web space becomes cheaper - or even free - and digital cameras become ever more sophisticated.

More info is supposed top come out of Google in the next few days.

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Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path has a nice summary of AJAX (via CMS Watch).

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If anyone would like an invite for the Yahoo 360 service, please just leave me a comment on this post with your name and valid email (will not be displayed in comment).

If you also get the service up and running, please share your thoughts on Yahoo 360 as a comment as well.

My review of the service is cross-posted on my Yahoo 360 blog and this blog.

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I’ve had a chance to use the new Yahoo! 360 (thanks Mindsack) and the following is my review.

I can’t say that I’m terribly impressed with Yahoo 360 and I will not be using it anytime soon for blogging. Everyone is comparing it to other blogging tools, but I’m not sure if that is an appropriate way to review the service. It looks like Yahoo 360 would be most useful for those already fully integrated into using Yahoo’s other services like Mail, Photos, My Yahoo, and Groups. Yahoo 360 pulls all these together into one nice interface. So, as a “social networking” tool, I think the service will do well. In addition to having your email, groups, photos, etc. accessed in one place, the user will also have the ability to perform basic blogging.
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What’s Next Online has an excellent post that explains most major aspects of RSS in a non-techie way (via Blogging Pro).

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