The Net Wordpress

Digg This Button WordPress Plugin

I have added a really cool new Plugin for WordPress. Digg This is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com and automatically display a link back to the Digg post, for people to Digg your story. When a Digg is first recognized, an email is sent to let you know that someone has Dugg your story. The detection of […]

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The Net

Exploring Pay Per Digg

I decided to check out the new Digg service that was recently exposed. User/Submitter touts itself as a site “where Digg submitters pay for Digg users to promote their stories, and where Digg users make easy money”. Setting up an account was easy enough. Once I logged in, I was presented with the following information. Pay-out: $0.50 for 5 verified […]

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Ramblings The Net

Do People Respect Copyright Anymore?

Ever since posting The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores I have been having a whale of time with sites that blatantly ripped off the article to post on their sites as their own content. Often time the site owner didn’t know that it’s a copyright violation to post an entire article – they figure it was OK because they linked to […]

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Ramblings

Typing Search In Google Gets You Microsoft

I came across this today at News.com. Go to Google, type “Search” and then hit “I’m Feeling Lucky.” Look what page you get! LOL Back? It’s amusing–and more than a little ironic–that Google’s algorithm intended to take you to the top search result for “search” does not point to itself, but to Microsoft’s Live Search tool, which officially went live […]

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The Net

Google To Aquire You-Tube for $2.1 Billion

ShoeMoney is reporting that Google is going to buy YouTube for, get this, $2.1 billion! How the Shoe got this information is anyone’s guess but I have never recall a case where the Shoe wasn’t right. If he said Google is buying YouTube, then chances are they are buying YouTube. According to ShoeMoney’s blog entry, the deal was between $1.5 […]

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Ramblings

The Best of John Chow dot Com

I have created a Top Posts page (link at the top menu bar). This page links to the posts that received the most views, reactions or comments. Reader recommendations created the Top Posts page. Rather than have you surf through the entire blog to pick out the best bits of information, the Top Post page make all the best posts […]

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Investing

The Mutual Fund Scam

Many financial planners sing about the virtues of mutual funds. They will tell you mutual funds are great long-term investments with high returns and very low risk. In reality, the only thing mutual funds are good for is lining the pockets of people who sell and run them. Before you invest in a mutual fund, consider the following. There Are […]

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The Net

New Google Video Ads Up & Running

It took a little while but I have finally spotted a Google video ad running on The TechZone. I took a screen shot (on the right) just in case I don’t see it again. As some may recall, I signed a deal with Google to run their new video ad format on my site. These ads are right now outside […]

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