Eyepinch, Inc. BlogEyepinch, Inc. BlogPixelotto Has Arrived- December 8, 2006 This is a follow up to my previous posting. Alex Tew, the 21-year-old student from a small town in England who created the Million Dollar Homepage, has launched Pixelotto. The site started on Tuesday, December 5th and has already sold $124,300 of pixel advertising. The big selling point about Pixelotto is you get a chance to win $1 million. Will you be the lucky one to winhttp://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=35 Google's Picasa Web Albums Gets Update- December 8, 2006 Have you been waiting to share your photos on Picasa Web Albums in a language other than English Well, Google is very happy to give you the ability to create web albums in 18 additional languages: English (UK), English (US), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Turkish. If you’ve already got a Picasa Web Albums account in English, click the...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=34 Getting Paid To Surf The Web - Update On AGLOCO- December 8, 2006 There has been some mention on the internet about how AGLOCO&39;s upcoming Viewbar is spyware. AGLOCO&39;s chief internet privacy officer recently discussed at length about these comments, a couple of which we want to reiterate here: Spyware entails the following characteristics: 1) It’s installed without your permission; 2) It surreptitiously tracks you; 3) it is difficult if not impossible to turn off or remove; and, 4) it sends your information to an unknown and untrustworthy...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=36 Wikia Gets Undisclosed Funding From Amazon- December 7, 2006 Wikia, a for-profit sister site of Wikipedia, received a second round of funding today, all of it coming from Amazon. No word yet on how much Amazon has spent on this.Just this week, Wikia announced that they would purchase ArmchairGM, an online sports community, for $2 million in cash and Wikia stock. In March, it was reported that the company received $4 million from Bessemer Venture Partners and Omidyar Network, with participation from angel investors Dan Gillmor, Reid Hoffman,...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=32 Apple Computer and TiVo- December 7, 2006 There is word on the street that Steve Jobs will announce some sort of partnership with TiVo at the next MacWorld.Rumors usually get pretty crazy around MacWorld time. During last year’s Intel announcement, it was rumored that all press in attendance would get new notebooks but that didn’t happen. This one is probably just a rumor but if we think along the lines of iTV on its way, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea. PVRWire thinks that a partnership is highly unlikely but a...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=33 Introducing Snap Preview Anywhere- December 6, 2006 Snap Preview Anywhere is a new free service that gives your visitors a preview of the sites you link to. When a reader hovers over a link, a large preview screen pops up showing what the linked site looks like. This helps gives readers an idea on whether or not to visit the site. You can see a demo of this by clicking on the “Try Snap Preview Anywhere here” link at Snap.com. Snap.com makes money via that Snap search box that opens with the preview window. Large partners are...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=31 New MySpace For Geeks - Hawkee.com- December 5, 2006 Traditionally, Hawkee has been a place for the developer community to share code, which is somewhat of a social network. As of today; however, the site is officially a bona fide social networking site.Hawkee’s new focus is social networking for electronics shopping - and right in time for the holiday season. Users can compare prices, opinions, and reviews on various electronics. Products are tagged and users can filter through a tag cloud to find what they want. They can also filter the...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=30 ValueClick To Offer Video Advertising- December 5, 2006 ValueClick is now going to be offering a new in-stream video product, launching tomorrow, that will serve video ads to your siteblog. Looks like this is ValueClicks’ answer to Google’s video ads. Here’s what ValueClick had to say: “Our vision is nothing short of creating the largest and most reliable video ad network anywhere and we look forward to partnering with users to take full advantage of this exciting new opportunity.”You can watch a video..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=29 AskCity Up and Running- December 4, 2006 The new AskCity product, which combines Ask.com’s existing maps product (overhauled last February) with deep local content (information, reviews, etc.) and very good search, might just be my new go to source for maps and local business information.The reason that AskCity has such good content is that they’ve taken it from CitySearch, another service owned by parent company IAC. CitySearch has ten years of local content, and that is now deeply integrated with Ask’s...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=27 Yahoo! Wants Free Reporting- December 4, 2006 Yahoo! wants you to work for their news site, but you might not get paid.The company announced on Monday that they would partner with Reuters to solicit public contributions to their news service. The new submission page is live but not yet accepting submissions. CNN has been accepting public picture and video submissions for quite a while now but it doesn’t seem to be a significant part of their news coverage. It is more of a supplement to professional journalism.Yahoo’s You...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=28 |