Eyepinch, Inc. BlogEyepinch, Inc. BlogAGLOCO Update- November 30, 2006 No Spyware In The Viewbar AGLOCO Viewbar will have absolutely no spyware. The Viewbar tracks your Internet surfing and serves advertising based on the web page you’re visiting. Everything the Viewbar tracks will be spelled out in the privacy statement. This is really nothing new. Many other toolbars, like Google’s, already track surfing habits. In addition, the Viewbar will offer privacy and phishing protection and an uninstaller should you wish to remove it for any...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=25 AllAdvantage 2.0 - Get Paid To Surf The Net- November 30, 2006 AllAdvantage is back! For those of you who don’t know, AllAdvantage was a site that paid you to surf the Internet. What’s more, it paid you when you refer other people to surf, and paid you again if those people referred other people - all the way down to four levels. AllAdvantage 2.0 also has a new name, AGLOCO, which stands for A Global Community. This time, the founders are doing things a bit differently. They said that AllAdvantage failed the last time because the timing, not...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=24 Break.com Increases Video Payout- November 27, 2006 Break.com, a video sharing web site similar to YouTube, announced that it will pay $400 for user-generated videos and as much as $2,000 for animated shorts. When Break launched last year they offered $50 per video and later raised that to $250 before the increase to $400. With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. Metacafe launched a similar program called “producer...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=23 Google Aquires New Wiki Startup- November 26, 2006 Google Inc., in an effort to help expand at providing software that helps users create and post their own materials on the Internet, has acquired a California startup company that develops online collaboration tools known as wikis.The announcement came Tuesday through separate postings at Google’s and JotSpot Inc.’s Web journals. The terms were not disclosed, however. JotSpot Chief Executive Joe Kraus said JotSpot would be able to tap into the Internet search...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=21 IE 7 Less Vulnerable than Firefox 2- November 26, 2006 According to reports, Mozilla Firefox 2 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE) are both vulnerable to a bug that steals the login-id and password of users, with the help of a fake log-in page.The bug has been dubbed as “Reverse Cross Site Request vulnerability” (RCSR) by Robert Chapin, who first discovered the flaw. Reportedly, the attack was first carried out from a profile page using a specially crafted HTML that hides the genuine MySpace content from the page, and displays the...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=22 Using Robots.txt on Your Web Site- November 18, 2006 If you are a webmaster, then you are probably already familiar with robots.txt or you have at least heard about it. This tool is used to exclude search engines from spidering particular content on your site. A Brief History Robots (also called wanderers or spiders) are programs that traverse many pages in the World Wide Web by recursively retrieving linked pages.In 1993 and 1994 there have been occasions where robots have visited WWW servers where they weren’t welcome for...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=20 Major Search Engines Unite to Support...- November 17, 2006 In the first joint and open initiative to improve the Web crawl process for search engines, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft announced support for Sitemaps 0.90 (http:www.sitemaps.org), a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their web pages in their web sites and be indexed more comprehensively and efficiently, resulting in better representation in search indices. For users, Sitemaps enables higher quality, fresher search results. An initiative initially driven by Yahoo!..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=19 Web Designers - Need Inspiration- November 16, 2006 Cool Home Pages is a web site that is more or less a repository of unique web designs. It’s a place where designers can go to get inspiration from their fellow designers. If you are so inclined, you can also submit sites to Cool Home Pages that you think are “cool.” According to Cool Home Pages, cool can be a lot of things. Almost the only thing it can’t be is something they’ve already seen over and over again. Their watchword is ‘REMARKABLE’..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=18 ReviewMe - New Pay-Per-Post Site- November 15, 2006 New Pay-Per-Post system, ReviewMe, launched the other week. It offers advertisers a way to get their service or Web site reviewed by bloggers, gaining your site traffic, invaluable feedback, and word of mouth buzz. It also offers bloggers a way to get paid to review services and Web sites that are of interest to advertiser’s readers. Their launch started with an initial offering of $25,000, overall, for bloggers to review their service. However, the launch went better than..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=13 Automate Submission of Your RSS Feeds- November 15, 2006 I am relatively new to this new world of blogging. One of my first major concerns; however, was “how I am going to spread the word about my blog and start getting traffic to my site” In my searches, I have found several programs that help automate the process of submitting blogs andor rss feeds to online blog rss directories. The tool that I came across, that seems to work like a charm, is called RSS Submit. It’s developed by a company called KSoft. For anyone out...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=15 |