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News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:01pm EDT Are Websites Ranked as a Whole? I've been a loyal reader of High Rankings Advisor for several years now and the one thing I've appreciated most is the way you've been completely honest with people who write in with questions seeking answers. Well, I guess I'm one of those people because I would like to get your expert opinion on a question I have about Google's PageRank. Yes, I know you're not exactly the biggest fan of PageRank, but I thought I'd ask you anyway. I recently signed up as an advertiser with [a blog review website] so I could purchase blog review postings for one of my clients. After enrolling, I purchased a PR5 blog review posting at the standard PR5 price of $40. Eventually my offer was picked up by a blogger, but the review posting only stayed on their PR5 home page for one day as the next day it was shifted from the front page of the blog to an archived page that had a PR0. When I complained to a site representative that I had spent $40 for a link that should last more than one day, they reassured me that my client's website will get the full impact of the PR5 link even though the review posting was no longer on the front page. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:00pm EDT Hustler, Paris Hilton Sex Site See .xxx as Web Porn Ghetto. Stuart Lawley has Hustler magazine and the distributor of Paris Hilton’s sex tape up in arms. The 47-year-old British Internet entrepreneur’s ICM Registry is roiling the $13 billion pornography industry after last week winning a preliminary nod for the .xxx domain from The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, which approves Web addresses. If his bid passes later this year, Lawley could sell Web addresses to adult sites for $60 each. Although not mandated, many Internet sex sites said they’d register with .xxx to prevent their brand from being stolen. Hustler and Vivid Entertainment LLC, the porn company that released sex tapes from Paris Hilton and reality TV stars Kendra Wilkinson and Kim Kardashian, say .xxx would corral the industry into an “online ghetto,” making it easier to censor. “.xxx would basically be an avenue for authorities to try and push all adult websites into a certain segment and then get rid of .com,” Michael Klein, the president of Hustler, the brand behind websites like Barelylegal.com, said from his Los Angeles office. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 11:59am EDT Feeding Pirates: When Legit Companies Advertise On Shady Sites. This isn't one of those stories about a big Hollywood company suing a big Silicon Valley company for copyright infringement. This is about a struggling independent filmmaker just trying to make a living doing the work she loves. Ellen Seidler released And Then Came Lola this spring. Seidler describes her film as a "lesbian romantic comedy." In the tradition of many independent filmmakers, Seidler and her co-director Megan Siler used $250,000 of their own money and paid for the feature through personal loans, refinancing and credit cards. They've yet to see a profit. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 11:58am EDT Apple denies iPhone 4 antenna glitch, blames inaccurate signal bars. Apple has denied that its recently released iPhone 4 has any problems with the antenna, as reported by many disgruntled customers of the company’s latest device. Instead the Jobisan outfit has coughed to a glitch with the way the bars are displayed on the phone. Apple said it would spin out a software fix in the next few weeks. “We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it’s both simple and surprising,” explained Apple in a “letter” on its website. The Cupertino-based company goes on to admit it was gobsmacked by the discovery: Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 11:58am EDT Poll finds falling freetard support. UK public sympathy for copyright leechers is falling, according to a new poll this week. This one's by Ipsos Mori, but it too provides evidence that pirates aren't exactly the most popular people in the pub. The earlier survey for lawyers Wiggin also showed support for creators' rights. In the poll by Ipsos Mori, over half (52 per cent) the sample polled agreed with suspending persistent infringers. The number of people who agree with throttling (bandwidth of) repeat offenders was almost identical. That's still a lot of people who don't immediately back the enforcement of online copyright, of course. But it shows that there's another side to the picture, one rarely seen on blogs and online discussion forums. News Bytes Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:52am EDT World's largest skimmer arrives in Gulf as Alex disrupts oil cleanup. News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:51am EDT How Much Is XXX.Com Worth Now? We Are About To Find Out, As It Hits The Auction Block At DomainFest. Certainly nothing has been in the domain news, even the general news much more in the past few days than the tenative approval of the .XXX extension by ICANN. Beyond the ICM registry who owns the .XXX TLD, the biggest other beneficiary very well maybe the owner of XXX.com. Now you will have the chance to be that guy, the owner of XXX.com because that domain is hitting the auction block at Domainfest New York on August 18th. The reserve price is stated to be in excess of $5 Million Dollars. No doubt that the value of the domain XXX.com grew once .XXX registry got its tentative approval. The ICM registry has approximately $10 Million invested in the .XXX registry to date and promises to heavily promote the .XXX extension once final approval is given by ICANN which should occur sometime this year. News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:50am EDT Developing a Custom Link Building Campaign. You've tried the mass market approach to link building. The competition is heating up and you aren't getting the results you need. Now you're ready for a custom link program. Let's explore some of the steps to put together a custom link marketing campaign. News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:49am EDT All Things Bonanzle: An Interview with CEO Bill Harding. When I used the Bonanzle marketplace for the first time I was quite impressed. I've read a number of comments and emails from readers about that first-look review I did back in July of 2008. Fast-forward nearly two years, and Bonanzle is still a well-oiled machine that is slick to use and offers features that you just don't find on other online marketplaces -- in 2008 or 2010. Since my first-look at Bonanzle, this snappy little online marketplace has grown to boast 250,000 registered users, and it is now home to more than 3.5 million item listings. So far this year the company has had pretty big announcements: it recently pulled in $1 million in venture funding and recently added Ontela co-founder Dan Shapiro to its board of directors (Ontela is the company that merged operations with Photobucket in December of last year). News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:49am EDT US authorities shutdown websites accused of movie piracy. US feds and customs officials shut down seven websites yesterday, for allegedly hosting pirated copies of popular Hollywood films and TV shows. The net seizures came just one week after the White House announced its enforcement plan for confronting theft of intellectual property. US authorities have accused (pdf) the sites of movie piracy and said that films such as Toy Story 3 were being offered free to users of the websites. A Manhattan federal court issued warrants on behalf of the US attorney for the Southern District of New York that demanded the closure of seven sites: TVshack.net, Movies-Links.tv, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org and ZML.com.  News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:48am EDT Playboy & Taschen Launch 'The Big Butt Book'. Playboy celebrated "The Big Butt Book" at Taschen Book Store in Beverly Hills yesterday. Big booty porn star Alexis Texas was on hand to promote the new tome and sign copies. According to Taschen, "The Big Butt Book" explores this perennial fascination with female booty — from small and taut to large and sumptuous — in the fourth installment of Dian Hanson's critically acclaimed body parts series. The book includes over 400 photos from 1900 to the present day. It analyzes butts ranging from petite Pam Anderson's to sumptuous Serena Williams'. News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:47am EDT What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Before taking the leap and starting or buying your own business, it would be helpful to know whether you're cut out for the task. Though there's no mathematical formula for figuring out the exact traits of a successful entrepreneur, there are some fairly objective criteria by which you should judge yourself before making what is inherently a very risky move. News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:46am EDT Microsoft pulls the plug on Kin. Amid anemic sales, Microsoft has decided to halt work on its Kin phone less than two months after the product hit the market. The social media-oriented phone will not make its planned European debut and Microsoft is shifting the entire Kin team to work on Windows Phone 7, the Microsoft smartphone operating system due out later this year. Andy Lees, who heads up the company's cell phone efforts announced the move to Microsoft workers earlier on Wednesday, according to a source close to the company. Microsoft confirmed the move in a statement to CNET. "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned," the company said. "Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones." News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:46am EDT Why Isn’t Gay Porn Star Documentary Available on Amazon? John Roecker set out to explore the world of the sex industry and wound up making frank, bold documentary Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars,*But Were Afraid to Ask! The seven episodes which aired on Here! TV featured some of the hottest names in the male sex industry, talking about the how and why of their careers. The actors discuss their past history as abused children, their drug use, their love lives off screen, their pasts and their futures. It’s gritty and gnarly, moving. Out of 16 of the actors, two are now dead, and one, Harlow Cuadra, is in prison. Roecker told me: I want these guys to be heard, I want to give them a voice. But the opportunity to learn about the human side to these men has just gotten smaller, even though the DVD collection of Roecker’s documentary is about to be released. I went to Amazon to pre-order Everything as a gift for a friend who is a fan of gay porn as well as the band Rancid and punk hero Tim Armstrong who donated music for the series. Everything wasn’t listed as available now or for pre-sale. It wasn’t listed at all. But Salo with fourteen year olds having sex was. So was Behind the Green Door. And Deep Throat. And The Devil in Miss Jones. Jenna Jameson’s autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star is readily available. Oh heck, Amazon sells Paris Hilton’s sex tape, and have pre-orders available for thousands of books, CDs and DVDs. Why not Roecker’s look at the gay sex business? News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:45am EDT Universal Design: One Site to Rule Them All. As someone who has been building websites for over 11 years, I can tell you the two areas that are the least understood and the most maligned are compliance and accessibility. Seen as a type of website welfare, only for the few, they are often ignored as an "only if I have to" or "only if I'm sued" addition to most websites. But following W3C compliance and the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) Level AA can help you reach an untapped $13 trillion market, and also reduce your IT costs, ready you for mobile, improve your Google quality score, and organic search engine placements. News Article Thursday, July 1st 2010, 11:44am EDT Microsoft sees spike in attacks targeting 0day Windows bug. The number of malicious attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Windows has mushroomed over the past week, prompting Microsoft to warn customers to deploy countermeasures until an update is released. Microsoft said on Wednesday that its security team has detected more than 10,000 distinct computers that have experienced the attack against the bug in the Windows Help and Support Center. The vulnerability, which was disclosed on June 10 by researcher Tavis Ormandy, makes it possible for attackers to remotely install malware on computers running Windows XP and Server 2003 by luring end users to booby-trapped websites. |
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