adsense, google

clipped from www.bloggingtips.com Google removes Adsense referral program clipped from www.bloggingtips.com The google adsense referral program was never that good in my opinion. The conditions for getting a qualified referral were tough and the payouts were poor. Nevertheless, they got hundreds of thousands to sign up to refer new users to Google Adsense. Today Google announced that they are removing the Google Adsense referral program Hello, We […] Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on January 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

SEO, Search Marketing Geek

clipped from piloseo.com 10 Signs You Are a Search Marketing Geek Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Mark Pilatowski Title says it all. As I become more and more immersed in the world of SEO and search marketing I am noticing that it is creeping into every aspect of my life. The following are by no means comprehensive of search taking over your life but they are the most common and prevalent signals that you may be living the life of a Search Geek.

TechStars

clipped from www.techstars.org get $ How much funding do TechStars companies receive? You get $5,000 per founder, up to 3 founders. So at most, you’ll 15,000 for the summer. We think that this is plenty of money to survive for the summer and to crank out a substantial prototype so you can get to the next level. You also get a free server hosting, a nice place to work if you want to, legal services, and more. Finally, there is immeasurable value in the connections and advice that you’ll receive when you start your company with TechStars, and also in the opportunity to pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists at the end of the summer during our Investor and Demo Day.

delicious new feature

clipped from www.techcrunch.com I just got word that Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages (Yahoo acquired Delicious in late 2005). Some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search results, which tells them how many people have bookmarked those pages, as well as the tags people have supplied for those pages. Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results

backdoor threat

backdoor threats

clipped from www.microsoft.com Win32/Sinowal is a family of password-stealing and backdoor Trojans. The Trojan may try to find a cryptographic certificate on the infected computer and install a certificate on the computer to mislead users in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Web transactions. The Trojan may also capture user data such as banking credentials from various user accounts and send the data to Web sites specified by the attacker. Some Win32/Sinowal components may also open a backdoor on a TCP port. Win32/Sinowal may try to perform certain operations from the context of a trusted process such as explorer.exe in order to bypass local software-based firewalls. Malicious Software Encyclopedia: Win32/Sinowal