Yahoo’s MyBLogLog bans Shoemoney from MyBlogLog.com because Shoemoney has been pointing out various bugs in their system. And this all started because Yahoo posted about ‘Andy Beal’ being a spammer!

I am not really surprised by this. Yahoo is quite arrogant anyway and banning Shoemoney is not going to solve their problems. I think Yahoo should be grateful to Shoemoney for finding the bugs and for promoting MyBlogLog in the first place.

Lets face it, MyBlogLog does not provide any service which we cannot do without. We already get our stats via ‘Google Analytics’ (albiet several hours delayed - but quite detailed) and there is more than we have time to digest. MyBlogLog is a social site, made popular by the bloggers and such arrogant attitude towards the bloggers only mean that the bloggers will pull them down faster than their rise upwards.

I think Shoemoney would add ‘the demise of MyBlogLog’ to his prediction list of 2007!

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Got a spam today where their system totally screwed up.

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From: newcastlemonkey6@hotmail.co.uk
To:newby@talent.co.uk (thats not my email address)
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Please fill out our <"application"|"appointment"> form, <"no fees asked"|"no money upfront">, just your <"name and a phone number"|"basic contact details">:
http://www.ewkreisieg.net/index.html

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Aaron mentioned today about Link Vendor offering a free tool to find domains on the same IP. The paid version of whois.sc’s reverse ip tool provides the same functionality.

Link Vendor’s tool gives junk/rubbish results after a while as displayed in the above pic.

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This morning I was having a look on audi.co.uk to see what the new Audi A3 looks like. Started configuring the A3 model and had a look at how the car would look in various colours.

I know for a fact that the big manufacturers like Audi, Mercedes, BMW spend more than a couple of hundred thousand pounds to develop their websites. You would expect them to show a right-hand-drive car on audi.co.uk, but how they overlooked this detail is beyond me. It is really not “alright” to see a right hand drive interior image of the car. A quick check on BMW and Honda’s car configurator show RHD interior images.

Update: I checked other models on audi.co.uk’s website and all of their cars show left-hand drive interior images. I wonder what they were thinking when they signed off the acceptance / approval sheet from their web design company.

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An ‘Adwords Editor’ type tool is currently being tested by Microsoft Adcenter development team which is likely to be first beta tested by Adcenter’s ‘premium clients’ who spend more than £6,000 per month basis.

Microsoft is also testing an api for Adcenter which can be used by clients who spend more than £3000 per month with Adcenter. This is expected to be launched in March 2007.

But the most interesting feature being currently developed is the supposedly ‘google adwords importer’. Now this will make the job for lot of agency guys who handle massive amounts of keywords for their clients. All you will need to do export the csv file from adwords and import it into Adcenter. Your ‘campaigns’ and ‘ad groups’ will be automatically be created in Adcenter. No release dates are available as of today.

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Went to Apollo Cinema in London tonight for the preview screening of ‘300′ by Zack Snyder who was present and later answered questions (Thanks to Hugh MacLeod and Simon Dunstan for invitation).

Based on the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller, “300″ is a story of honor, fearlessness, passion, blood and faith.
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1 word - Disappointing!

Morning View from the DLR is much better though.

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Rob at iScatterlings got lucky on friday. He managed to meet up with Hugh MacLeod in Newbury while Hugh (gapingvoid.com) was promoting ‘Select Rose’ in Tesco. What’s even more special is he got a special ‘Hugh-graph‘.
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Hugh MacLeod, the cartoonist who became famous by increasing the sales of a Stormhoek(south african wine) by 5 times via his blog posts on gapingvoid is now trying to pull off another crazy idea.

Finding ‘Big Love’ in a Tesco’s supermarket
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Hello World!

Almost Live reporting from Search Engine Strategies London 2007 starting from 11AM UK time on 13th February 2007 at
ExCeL London
One Western Gateway
Royal Victoria Dock
London E16 1XL

Hopefully, I shall be able to meet the mozzers (Rand, Scott & Rebecca) and get some cuttlets from Matt

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