Shoemoney’s photoshoped Azoogle check was modified by my mate Mr C with the reflection in the car sometime ago.

Here it is:

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As mentioned here and here, it does look like feedburner is having problems today.

I have checked about half a dozen accounts I have for different clients and they all show as 0 subscribers today.

Hope they return to normal ASAP.

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I was shocked this morning to discover that Yahoo has plagiarized content from another website - in the exact order and have not credited the original website!!

They have copied the top 10 listings from the website which lists 100 hoaxes and no recognition / mention of the author. Yahoo has been guilty of plagiarizing content before: Yahoo India plagiarizes content from an Indian blogger

Here is the yahoo article on “Ten of the best April Fool’s Day hoaxes: US museum”

Original article: Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time

This is shocking!! Published on Thu Mar 29, 4:19 AM ET - the yahoo article already has 728 votes giving an average rating of 4.5/5 - and yahoo is making loads of money through their content!! I think museumofhoaxes.com should sue Yahoo for copyright violation!

UPDATE: Jeremy Zawodny and Ian @ twopointtouch.com have replied that the the news was syndicated from AFP. Ian also gave the url: http://www.afp.com/english/home/ to contact AFP. I have contacted AFP for further clarification on why the original website was not credited.

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Amazon has just announced that it has released “Contextual Links” in Beta!

This was a long time coming…. They should have done this ages ago… anyway..

This means that you can insert a simple javascript code into your websites and it will automatically find relevant amazon products to link to on your website ANd you earn the commission!

Here are the 4 simple steps to follow:
1. Visit Associates Central->Build Links->Context Links
2. Specify the maximum number of links you’d like on each page
3. Optionally customize the display of the links with a couple clicks
4. Copy/paste the generated code into your pages

You have the following customization options:

You may see some links here –> to Harry Potter dvds.

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Nick mentioned about the launch of spotplex, a site currently in beta.

I tried to get the spotplex code for my blog, but registration is via invitation only.

If anyone has the ability to send out invites, can I get an invitation please ?

Thanks

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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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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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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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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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