Category: Technology

I run a couple of websites that gets organic search traffic and has google adsense on them. Unlike most sites, which are littered with ads, my sites only have one ad. The amazing thing is, I can consistently achieve over 10% CTR, and as high as 20% CTR, on my ads. I always thought this… Continue reading Optimize for the sake of optimizing?

Most of the time I don’t like to discuss my SEO experiments because I like to keep them a trade secret, but this one is interesting. Although most people focus on gaining position in Google, I have always been mystified by Bing. At least on Google, you know what you are supposed to do: Make… Continue reading Bing SEO

Although I like the “freemium” concept, my company – WorkingPoint – has just decided that we will discontinue free accounts. This decision was hard because a bulk of our userbase and a significant portion of our new subscribers are free accounts. However, the desire to grow quickly is hampered by our need for a paycheck. In a… Continue reading WorkingPoint says goodbye to freemium

Easy fix: change the name of your picture. Apparently some names are banned from facebook. Like this one: j0400967 I was trying to upload an image for one of the pages I am making on facebook. I tried converting the image to all different formats, including PNG, JPG, GIF, etc.. nothing worked. I even tried… Continue reading Facebook: There was an error updating your profile picture. Please try again.

As I am writing this, a bunch of people are being tricked into liking the page “10 Signs You Should DUMP Your Boyfriend” and “OMG, this girl killed herself after her dad posted this photo” The worm (its not a virus) is very cool. Basically those “Pages” get infected when they add an application, like… Continue reading Cool Facebook Like Worm

I usually don’t weigh in on privacy discussions because my entire life is spewed everywhere online and I like it that way. But one thing that happened today irked me a little. I visited Rotten Tomatoes to get see some movie reviews. At the top of the page, they greeted me by my name and… Continue reading Facebook is stupid

I love appengine for the following reasons: 1) easy deployment, and 2) clean workflow — literally just a couple of commands to setup, test, and deploy… But today its pissing me off for two reasons: 1) www.colbertrally.com – according my dashboard, the front page failed to load 5,000 times. WTF? How is that possible. I… Continue reading AppEngine Sucks

I was trying to steal the gmail emoticon (you can see it as my favicon), when I noticed something exceptionally strange. You’d think they would use a GIF to make the emoticon, but no, they are using a PNG sprite. Check out this amazingly tall sprite they use for their emoticon. It’s always interesting to… Continue reading Gmail Emoticon Smilies

So this morning I was looking up some background information on someone I met online. I always do this with new people I meet, because I actually find it kind of rude when you don’t take the time to learn about people you are talking with. It’s an easy way of getting “small talk” out… Continue reading OkCupid: more desiring of sex

Here are a couple of simple steps to take your iPhone running iOS 4.0.1 to tether for free. While this still works, visit: http://www.jailbreakme.com on your iPhone. Follow the instructions and jailbreak your iPhone Once your phone has been jailbroken, open the “Cydia” app and search for “ultrasnow”. Install the ultrasnow app, which will unlock… Continue reading How To: iPhone iOS 4 Tethering Free