John M. Ryan

TextLinkAds Review – Make money with links!

Back about – it must be two years ago now, I ran a successful celebrity website. One of the main money makers on this website was ‘text link ads‘. When I launched the website, I was actively seeking a way to monetise it. I did not want to just use a few Google adsense ads, [...]

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How to send emails securely on gmail

Did you know by default Gmail does not send e-mails over https , although, it does of course use it to log you on to the system. But you can turn this on, here’s how you do it. 1. Click on settings at the top of your Gmail inbox. 2. Under the general tab scroll [...]

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Bing – Microsoft Search goes live!

We have Bing Off… We all know Microsoft wants to be Google, it wants to be Google really bad!. Bing.com  is a real effort by Microsoft’s search engine people – an effort to be seen as an reliable alternative (wannabe replacement) to Google’s search engine. Will people be saying “Bing it” instead of  “Google it” [...]

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Twitter – Show me the money!

Internet reports are giving word recently that Twitter is in  “late stage talks” with Google over a proposed acquisition. It won’t be the first time Google has purchased something which is dominating the internet in recent years, such as YouTube. And interestingly enough like YouTube, Twitter, is also a service which has yet to produce [...]

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Cuil – Google’s younger (and sexier?) sister?

The new search engine Cuil looks great, but my search results have been less than satisfactory, but as with anything new (and it should be a beta) there are going to be teething problems. Being the new kid on the block may just be what is needed to shake down the search engine market. Google [...]

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LinkListing Tuesday

Is Google Holding A Gun To Wikipedia’s Head? An interesting little discussion going on here And staying on the very same subject Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD. BBC News… on Youtube…. WordPress.com now accommodates people who [...]

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LinkListing Wednesday

So, there seems to have been lots happening online when it comes to the blog world. And I missed most of them due to work committments One of the first interesting piece of news is that Google Reader has what they call a small update, this is something interesting though, you can new view imbedded [...]

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