Asking this question of who is better…Facebook or Myspace, it’s almost like a PC or Mac commercial. I keep hearing about Facebook and MySpace in constant competition for the social networking lead. So I’ve decided to setup an account on both unique web spaces and see for myself what all the hooyah is about. I’ve briefly held a myspace account to keep tabs on my teens myspace activities, but never really delved into it for myself until now. So this will be a unique view of the differences between the two.
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According to the New York times yesterday, Law firms have realized that YouTube is a great recruiting tool and they are beginning to utilize it. Actually, they’ve finally come to discover that law students watch YouTube religiously and have decided to take advantage of that to get what they want.
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As some of you may know, NetResults owns eSnacks.com, which sells vintage and bulk candy. The site provides a nice little revenue stream, while also provide us a great test site for SEO work.

eSnacks is now a few months old, and how it still shows no PageRank, it does rank for a lot of great terms. As a matter of fact, eSnacks provides thousands of dollars per month of profit without any paid advertising. We acquire all our orders through organic search listings, and Google Product Search.

This provides a clean look at the power of search engines. For example, our three biggest sellers, Milkfuls, Cadbury Flakes and Wonka Bars are all ranked well in Google. We can actually watch the orders for these items increase over time, without doing anything other than pick up some linking. [more...]

Google Analytics Reporting suite has been an excellent resource for me to track all my websites activities, from my business Blogs to e-commerce sites. As of September 17, Google has released for download their newly developed unique widget called, “Google Analytics AIR“.
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A family in Dallas is suing Australia based Virgin Mobile phone company for using their daughter’s photo for their advertising campaign. The lawsuit, filed in state district court in Dallas, names Virgin Mobile USA LLC, its Australian counterpart, and Creative Commons Corp., as defendants.

The family claims this caused their teenage daughter grief and humiliation by having her photo on billboards and Web site advertisements without consent. As a parent, I can understand the frustration of someone using your child’s photo without your knowledge, it’s not acceptable whatsoever. In this case, the photo was put on Flickr by an every day Joe that went to church camp and was sharing his photos with his friends through the Flickr forum.
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Early yesterday morning, eBay was hacked! They apparantly had someone posting confidential names, contact information, and credit card numbers for approximately 1,200 eBay users. eBay claims that the names appear to be eBay users, but as far as they can tell the credit card information doesn’t seem to be accurate to the members names. They’re attempting to reach the users involved by telephone to notify them about what has happened and to take the appropriate actions to protect themselves.

You’ve gotta give eBay a hand for trying to remedy the unfortunate situation. Within an hour they had their forum removed from public view and they’re working diligently at taking care of the matter against this Fraudster.

Have you noticed that service providers tell you their specific service is Free, but you come to find out there are limitations to the Free portion? Or you have Unlimited use, but in the fine print there are so many limitations, that it voids out their selling point? Worse part is when you incur fees for something you believed to be Free. That’s creative marketing at it’s best and technology is subtly advancing this to making consumers endure Ads now too. Two new companies like a British cellphone service called, “Blyke” and Pudding Media are implementing these marketing ploys as we speak.
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Do you Google the web? This isn’t new, but for the average user or person that may utilize Google and bypass this button over and over, try out the More links. It’s amazing once you discover things you’ve been missing. Google has some interesting tools that you may not even be aware of.

After briefly exploring Google’s “More link”, I discovered an “Even More” Google products page. Wow…it’s a new adventure seeing everything you can do with Google. I know I’ve scanned past this page multiple times, but I decided to really take a good look at it.

The More Google products page gives you access to multiple search tools.
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ScribLINK.com is a free digital sketch board. It’s an excellent Free online resource that is simple with all the basics for freehand drawing, lines, circles, grids, typing, colors, thickness, and an eraser. Alongside the whiteboard, you can have chat sessions or conference call forum, which Scriblinks coordinates your group with a personal conference line with access code just by clicking on a little phone icon. Perfect way to have your group get on the same page. You can even Save, Print, or Email a copy of the final board. Perfect for tutoring, brainstorming ideas, planning, creative collaboration. Excellent Virtual Tool!
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If you happen to be one of the Apple fans that bought an iPhone when it was first released, you are the “Early Buyer” being talked about all over the news. Due to the major out cry from all us early buyers, Apple decided to give a $100 store credit to help ease the frustration of the sudden $200 price drop.

Apple has made a simple way for every early buyer to CLAIM their $100 store credit. Catch is… you only have until November 30, 2007 to submit the claim or you just miss out completely.
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