Google fights “click fraud,” which bilks Web advertisers out of millions and strikes at the heart of the search engine.
Click-click. Click-click. On a side street in New Delhi, India, past the pushcarts and down the stairs, the familiar sound of a computer mouse signals trouble for Google Inc.
Here, under bare fluorescent lights in a basement […]

I have been adding some new features to SproutFramework. I used URL rewriting to map URLs to the dispatcher. There can now be a master template for an application, which can include sub-templates. Simple browsing of a table can be accomplished with a few lines of code.

The next phase of SproutFramework development will be making a set of widgets that perform common web tasks. Things like lists, edit boxes, scrollbars, buttons. Then, more complicated mini applications can be built with the widgets.

A while ago I decided to track how long my bottle of Dawn Direct Foam would last. It says it contains 250 pumps. The bottle lasted us a little over 3 months, averaging a cost of about $1 per month. I wonder how this compares to a bottle of regular dish soap that costs $1.

Branding is the self-help industry of corporate America. Sure, it may be difficult to admit–perhaps even a bit embarrassing–but let’s face it: Both branding and self-help have experienced booming growth over the past decade, seemingly in reaction to rising levels of personal and professional insecurity. Both fields are populated with self-anointed experts. And both seem […]

Zopa, the world’s first online, person-to-person lending and borrowing exchange, today announced it has secured $15 million in Series B funding from Bessemer Venture Partners as well as existing investors Benchmark Capital and Wellington Partners. The additional funding will support Zopa’s intended California launch, planned for later this year, which comes on the heels […]

Paypal customers will soon be able to pay for goods or authorise money transfers using text messages sent from their mobile phones.
PayPal Mobile will launch the service next month in the UK US and Canada which can be used for both online payments as well as paying for goods offline in shops.
PayPal Mobile will offer […]

Tara Flynn, assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said buyer and seller scams are growing as quickly as the Internet itself and they are particularly dangerous with something like automobiles. “One of the biggest pitfalls is, it’s a big-ticket item,” she said.
The deals are large in scale and wide in […]

Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) yesterday issued an statement saying that it would offer the “.com.tw” addresses of its client companies, but not their online trading or auction records, to the Taipei National Tax Administration.
TWNIC’s move came as a response to media reports that TWNIC has agreed to offer to tax authorities the online trading […]

My blog and RSS feed search engine is almost to the point of indexing 5 million blogs from Blogger.

I have implemented a new rating system. When you click on a blog, please vote on it.

http://www.sproutsearch.com

Linspire, the creators of the Debian/GNU Linux based Linspire OS, showcased a self-branded mini PC at CES 2006.
The$399 PC takes its looks from Apple’s Mac mini but the similarities end there.
The 2.8 pound PC features a front panel backlit power button, a slot loading combo DVD drive, two rear USB ports, one Firewire connector, […]