Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:14:13 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/ TekTalk Technology, Gadgets, Widgets and Tricks en-us http://www.tektalk.com/images/logo.gif http://www.tektalk.com/ tektalk@tektalk.com http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=60 Orwellian dreams come alive? It is anyone’s guess but the deal, as I am reading it now, seems to be that Yahoo is joining the Google Adsense affiliate network. This is probably the biggest set of sites that Google has signed on and Google is allowing them to break all the rules. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:14:13 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=59 Google Gobbles Yahoo Search Yahoo and Google one blend of the same, competitors now just one entity with different jackets. How many miles have we gone Jerry Yang to get here? Once the king and only search engine of merit Yahoo has fallen from the graces as it flounders for identity in a sea of wealthy competition. While Jerry Yang has cashed in his chips and will feel no pain for the horrible decisions the board has made the same cannot be said of employees who had faith in the company’s direction. Let’s talk about the Yahoo Google morphing first. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:06:38 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=58 Yahoo Forced to Join Google’s Advertising Web Farm Microsoft has snubbed Yahoo’s attempt to get interest in a purchase once again. Efforts to start the takeover talks again with Microsoft after other deals fell through at the last offer of 47.5 million had the Microsoft giant laughing in the streets. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:43:56 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 URLTrends.com used to be a pretty nifty site. You could see your rankings and check them against others about once a month. Yet even while urltrends is still up and making pages it is a zombie site. Running on empty since August of 2007 the site has not done an update to its database. Wed, 21 May 2008 11:47:57 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56 Without a doubt the most outrageous move on the part of the Google machine is its recent banning of PalmReader.com. We know the people and saw the threads on the Google Webmaster help forums. It seems with a couple errors in tags there is just no reason for the monolithic monster of a search engine to ban the domain palmreader.com Mon, 12 May 2008 13:21:40 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55 This week Yahoo actually announces it is doing tests for ad insertion of Google advertising in its own search results. The obvious monopoly needs little comment but the obscure meanings reach out. Yahoo admits the value of its advertising engine to be less than $1 billion, the reported value of the deal. If it wants such a deal its own revenue must be less. Tue, 06 May 2008 04:48:38 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=54 Waking up finding your site taken down for too many hits and too much bandwidth for weeks brought a mean introduction to Munax, Munax high performance. Munax the wannabee search engine whose manners mirror black hat attitude in a white hat world. Munax is a search engine that steals your bandwidth in huge chunks. Bypassing all protocols it will go right into the most private documents – all it needs is a link somewhere, in some email, blog, friends post no robots.txt will save it. Mon, 05 May 2008 14:59:53 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53 Yahoo stocks fate, after almost doubling in the three months since Microsoft placed its takeover bid for Yahoo, is set to tumble opening bell on Monday. An announcement by Steve Ballmer puts the deal in the bit bucket and sets Yahoo! stock up for a downturn to more reasonable levels. Sun, 04 May 2008 09:30:05 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=52 Microsoft sent a warning to Jerry Yang at Yahoo to take the offer on the table or they will present the offer to the stockholders. Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:32:01 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=51 Google Advertising Monopoly Pounds Competition Google Web Farm Affiliates Penalized For Selling Outside Adsense. The iron hand of googles wealth and monopoly on Internet ad revenue has been pounding their affiliate website owners into joining their ad network or be penalized for selling ad space. The penalty is banishment from any search results and a brand applied to the website of an un-trusted site. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:57:00 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50 Who would have thought the two largest monopolies would collide? Microsoft’s recent buyout offer for Yahoo! may surprise many but it something to cheer. It may be a bit hard to swallow the software giant Microsoft, who borders the line of monopoly, adopting Google’s advertising search farm approach. A Microsoft takeover of Yahoo will make real competition. Google’s veritable stranglehold on search advertising is a monopoly that needs a good kick and its “don’t be evil” attitude just has never taken hold for the companies activities. Payback will be a webmasters payday and an advertiser heyday while Google stock will surely start to remember better days. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:47:15 -0600 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49 Google, that massive advertising link farm, has taken the next step in its monopolization of Internet revenue generation by demanding its affiliates stop selling links outside Adsense. It’s recent penalization of sites selling links directly or through link exchanges is a case in point for government intervention into a monopoly. Any of Google’s affiliated sites must buy links through Google’s own Adwords or the site is banned from the primary search results and it’s “Google Page Rank” dropped drastically. The results are far less traffic and far less revenues for website owners. The practice is monopolistic in so far as it skews its search results in favor of those that buy from them, affiliates of their advertising network, and affiliates of its link farm. The public is defrauded into thinking that Google is a search engine as it expands its advertising link farm using heavy-handed gold shackles on websites and presenting in it’s primary search results its own properties and those of its affiliates. Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:11:20 -0600 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48 When the tides roll in there is very little to do but rise and fall with the ebb and flow just like in business. When the big wave approaches you must get on it or be tossed aside as it passes you by. The modern mind understands expanding markets find their own levels and realign their creative avenues to traverse in these new conditions. The creative mind will grab onto the embryonic market before this happens to secure the top positions. The recent flood of broadband on the Internet has caused a video deluge predicted as far back as 1996, when only a handful of people had vision for the future. Today, as the vast proliferation of media offerings overwhelm even the experienced professionals, web surfers are more in need of websites willing to sift through the millions of video offerings to produce a quality experience. Whether you are selling a cookbook, ski lessons, power saws, the latest martial arts exercises, your pets latest tricks, or your bands newest songs a niche video site is one of the newest Web3.0 tools you either avail yourself soon or build out yourself. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:24:57 -0600 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=47 Looking to capitalize your domain names fast? Putting your domain up for auction may be just the ticket for sales with a side benefit of promotion. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:51:51 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46 It was not long ago on an expedition through the searing hot deserts of Mesopotamia that our caravan arrived at a certain lush oasis hidden deep in the sands, time long forgotten. We passed down lanes shaded by pomegranate, lemon, orange blossoms, and jasmine with the sound of fresh water bubbling around us, the waters hidden under the sand. Several wizened elders appeared and joined the procession to hasten us to a large shaded clearing where we parked our transportation and shook the weeks of sand from our sweat laden wool wraps. Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:53:00 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=45 Warner Brothers will self-publish the game based on the upcoming feature adaptation of the cartoon series Speed Racer, for release day-and-date with the film, Variety reported. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:37:41 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=44 It is always the big question; "How do I make money on the Internet with my website?" This being the first thing on most web owners minds. While getting your site, or sites, listed in the search engines is a first priority, once you have some traffic you must figure out what to do with it to convert it into commercial viability with better search engine visibility. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:36:38 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=43 Using it’s huge coffers and ignoring it’s latest motto “Don’t be evil” Google has put up $4.6 Billion bid for broadband spectrum that will allow mobility and motion as well as get signal through thick walls. The problem is that Google has attached a rider to its over-stuffed bid, that anyone who out bids them must open their networks to Google. Basically bribing it’s way into the WiBro (Wide area Broadband) 700-megahertz airwaves. Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:42:39 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42 Want to Buy a Domain Name? Want to Sell One? Well we found a lot of people have the same needs. You want to sell your domain name? You are looking for a domain name? You might even want a lot of domains to make a new network. Many issues face companies and people on the Internet and in the non-virtual world who are looking for or trying to sell domains and web sites/services. Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:22:45 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 NEWPORT BEACH, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/29/07 -- Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVI) Founder and Chairman Alex Kanakaris brought a "Wave of energy and excitement to the panel on convergence at the iHollywod Forum Mobile Entertainment Summit, predicting the end of DRM for both music and movies, and a new business model that will result in the biggest viewership ever while paying the artists and actors more than they have ever been paid, and shifting the balance of power in content control," said Tim Roland, a Wi-Fi TV National Sales Manager. Following the event, in which Mr. Kanakaris was interrupted by applause from the audience as he spoke out for artists rights, criticized movie executives and shared his vision for Wi-Fi TV with the President of Napster and other panelists, Wi-Fi TV announced that it will begin holding live online sales opportunity webinars this week. The moderator of the event stated that he will try to reconvene the same all-star panel in the future. Wed, 30 May 2007 11:36:14 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 By Michele Gershberg Fri May 18, 4:52 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion deal to buy Internet marketing firm aQuantive Inc. is an effort to capture a bigger role in the nascent Web video market and increases pressure on competitors to make acquisitions of their own. Sun, 20 May 2007 06:28:57 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39 Four years ago Apple launched iTunes Music preaching cheap download at .99 cents and most of the albums at $9.99. Since then the digital download market has exploded as they pull in about $5,000,000 a day and the companies controlling the mass music industry are ready to squeeze every penny they can from their properties. Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:50:56 -0500 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference Sold Out! It is absolutely amazing! Next months’ TRAFFIC domain name conference is sold out! The live domain name auction from Moniker has been released and the heat is turning up. Want to get into the big TRAFFIC conference in Las Vegas? We have no magic ride for you, it is just too late. The packed room will host a multi-million dollar array of the finest domain names coming to market. But it is not too late for you to get in on the auction both live and silent. Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:34:37 -0600 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=37 Moniker.com and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West team up to bring another great live auction of some of the most exciting domain names we have seen. The auction will take place on March 7 from 2:30 to 5:30pm PST at The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV in the USA. Here is a master list of domains from the main website https://marketplacepro.moniker.com/auction/index.html and you can register early and get your bidding cards ready! You must be registered for the conference to attend the Live Auction and to view the domain names eligible for that live auction. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:26:38 -0600 http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36 By: Keith Rickwood Taking a break from the boardroom congeniality of blackberry phones, Pearl 8100 emerge as one-for-all mobile handset. Stylish, sexy and smart...this BlackBerry handset spices up your mobile experience. The most portable keyboard phone possible is sure to impress hipsters, craving for style. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:41:58 -0600