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E-business

Oct
4
2010

Review of Free eBay Affiliate Scripts for WordPress

If you want to earn some money from your website or blog, the eBay Partner Network is an interesting option, and I’ve reviewed some free eBay affiliate tools that make it easier to use.

Apr
26
2010

Are Social Bookmarking Buttons Hijacking AdSense Publisher IDs?

Something has been hijacking the Adsense Publisher ID on some of my pageloads, inserting someone else’s ID in the Google ads instead of mine and stealing Adsense revenue. I’ve been investigating this with some members of the Google Help forums and the Fiddler HTTP debugger.

Oct
23
2009

Bizarre screenshot of the day: RSS directory?

Ok, firstly don’t get your hopes up – there isn’t a bizarre screenshot every day. But I just got this one when I was looking for RSS directories to add a blog RSS feed to. I’d just added the RSS feed to Goldenfeed, and saw a link underneath to another RSS directory, ‘readablog’. So I [...]

Oct
17
2009

Sharing Profit from Adsense on a Community Website

Sharing Profit from Adsense on a Community Website After my first experiments with Adsense and artificial intelligence, I thought it might be interesting to try it out on a website with more traffic. (However great my privacy and ‘under construction’ pages are, they aren’t the most visited pages on the web!) So when I discovered [...]

Oct
6
2009

Back to your Desks, Peasants!

Employers take out Life Insurance Policies on their Employees Is it right that employers take out life insurance policies on their employees?  Most employees do not even know if their employers have taken out life insurance policies against them, and undertandably so:  how could it feel to work for a company, knowing the company would [...]

Oct
4
2009

Google AdSense: What Artificial Intelligence does in the Real World?

When I went to college, I studied Artificial Intelligence before there was any such thing as Google AdSense (or, in fact, Google). I know, it’s hard to believe. So I spent a couple of years learning about robots, intelligent systems, evolution and natural language processing. Little robots will go to Mars, they told us. They’ll [...]

Sep
23
2009

Ebusiness Case Study: Last FM and Web 2.0 innovation

How Last.fm Responded to the Opportunities and Challenges of E-Business Technologies As an e-business from the start, an online presence was essential to Last.fm’s business model. There was no risk of channel conflict or cannibalisation of pre-existing sales channels. Last.fm’s Relationship with Technology Using Rogers’ (1962) technology adoption lifecycle model, organisations can be innovators, early [...]

Sep
18
2009

Ebusiness Technology: a new Web Development and Internet Business blog

Welcome to Ebusiness Technology, my new blog about Web Development and Internet Businesses, and the gold mine that is surely out there somewhere for all of us. I work from home as a freelance web developer while my kids are at school and preschool, and also when I should probably be asleep When I’m not [...]