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Two sources have confirmed that the rapidly growing
StumbleUpon recently approached Google to be acquired. The asking price was $50 million. This is chumpchange for a company like Google, and can give Google ad buyers the ability to not only buy ads to their site but actual site impressions which would probably fetch a pretty penny on Adwords. StumbleUpon has turned into a massive traffic generator for new sites and helps users find fresh content by Stumbling. Stumbling is like flipping through the channels on a TV, with content recommended by other users. I am StumbleUpon user myself and couldn’t live without it, I am hoping Google allows previous users that are paid sponsors to continue to use Stumble without looking at sponsored ads.
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Buzof enables you to automatically answer, close or minimize virtually any window. Just drag the Buzof icon and drop it onto the button you would normally click to handle the annoying message or dialog box. Buzof will then scan the desktop periodically and take care of the window for you if it shows up again.
http://www.basta.com/ProdBuzof.htm
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New Google Blog pinging service is now available.Search engine giant Google is finally making it easier for Bloggers to alert their blog search service to index the latest posts on their blogs.
The company has now launched a notification service, which enables the Bloggers to ping to alert the spiders of the latest updates.
This service is similar to tools provided by alternative blog search engines like PingGoat. Google already monitors other pinging services but this new tool would make the indexing of latest blog posts faster.
Google Desktop 4.5 has improved the look and feel of the Sidebar, the vertical bar on your desktop which provides convenient, at-a-glance access to all sorts of personalized information. This cleaner and more integrated Sidebar helps you better organize your Google Gadgets. Simply drag and drop these gadgets anywhere on your desktop for easy viewing or use the add gadgets interface to find the latest gadgets that match your interest.
Top 12 weirdest yet useful USB Accessories that you can actually buy…
Lime Wire is announcing that it is bending to pressure from software publishers, such as Adobe with their first step in blocking Warez versions of Adobe PhotoShop from being downloaded. It appears they will be blocking this file sharing at the client side. The biggest issue with this is that any blocking they might do will be in vain because the protocol that Lime Wire is based on is open source and other clients will be able to share and download the software leaving Lime Wire in the cold as reduced capabilities software. On the Mac side at least Acquisition has taken up most of the slack from Lime Wire, expect new players to emerge on the PC front to take the place of Limewire.
Of course the impact will not be huge because most large file sharers do not seem to be using Limewire anymore, Lime Wire has become a lame duck in the file sharing arena of late with torrents the more preferred software for sharing large files. Lime Wire is now often used for Mp3 downloads more than anything. We at Noheat.com wonder if this move is related to the story we covered in
Sept when Lime Wire sued the RIAA. It could show weakness in the courtroom and internal feelings that their days are numbered.
http://www.limewire.org/blog/?p=206
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QuickOnlineTips.com has a great article on Adsense plugins for Wordpress that may make me change my plugin for Adsense. Its a pain to add adsense for every blog entry and its a pain to try and get everything looking right without doing all of this manually. All for a few bucks to cover hosting costs and time. Here is just a few…
The Holiday Seasons are approaching and my gift buying has increased in order not to be the guy standing at the checkout with a bunch of crap on Christmas Eve. So this holiday season I am buying a lot of my gifts online this year. I have found that most real retailers have some coupons for their store as a way of driving traffic, why not do a search for a coupon on google before you place that final place order button. You will usually save at least 10% off your order or get free shipping. Sometimes cuts are even deeper with online retailers getting aggressive with coupons to get you as a customer this holiday season.
Crunch time at work is over. The TPS reports are all in and we can get back to prime time noheat.com!
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Looklater.com is a cool little tool for web browsers on run. So many times I have found a website only to get distracted by today’s next fire to put out. Later I would remember the page, yet have no idea how I would ever find it again. Looklater works by hiliting text or images on the screen and pressing the bookmark this on the floating toolbar. This is intuitive because I typically hilite text while I read, so it makes sense to bookmark the text I read, and search for it later. Your looklater bookmarked site can be accessed from any computer.
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