Archive for January, 2005

Comment Spammer Interviewed

Monday, January 31st, 2005

theregister.co.uk has a short interview with a comment spammer.

Post Secret

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

While I read PostSecret, I said to myself, “There’s no good reason to continue reading this.” Then after I finished it, I looked for more.

Google Releases Adwords API

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Google has released an API interface for their Adwords program, using Soap 1.1. It looks like it provides access to all the features of the existing user interface, but no api access to the keyword sandbox.
They implemented transaction quotas based on dollars spent by Adwords accounts registered under your developer id. If you use […]

Logging Clicks to Detect Click Fraud

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

AffTrack – Insurance Against Click Fraud
AffTrack is a free GPL php script to help track outgoing affiliate clicks and incoming pay-per-click (PPC) advertising.
Click fraud is not just people like the Texas-based company in this article that created web sites specifically designed to generate false clicks on your PPC ads. It’s also affiliate programs […]

Peek Inside Amazon DevCon

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

There’s some cool stuff over at Amazon Web Services Blog. Amazon is blogging their Developer’s Conference as it happens with a live forum where you can post questions to speakers.

Handy Dandy Character Entity Reference

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

Something handy to save for later use. Simple Character Entity Reference