I was looking into alternative forms of advertising last night and I started thinking about Facebook again. I decided to do a little investigation and found that Facebook offers a program called Social Ads. They allow you to choose either a Cost Per Click (CPC) model or a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) model. For each [...]
With a new year upon us, college students everywhere are going to be looking to rent and sublet apartments before the summer. Naturally whenever there are large amounts of money and property changing hands, there is bound to be fraud. This past weekend I was alerted to a type of online scam targeting college students [...]
In an on-going attempt to make users ever more cognizant of phishing scams and online identity theft, I have found an interesting article on Wired.com (curteousy of Digg) that explains a very new and dangerous phishing threat to Facebook users. According to the article, hackers have discovered a way to post seemingly harmless messages (from what [...]
I have been noticing this more and more lately and it has finally bothered me enough to cause me to want to write about it. What i’m talking about is the insane number of groups that are springing up, almost every day on Facebook, started by people who have broken or lost their cell phones [...]
Here’s an interesting piece of information that I was made aware today; apparently if you enter the equation “=850*77.1″ into Excel 2007, you will not be given the correct answer of 65,535 but instead, a completely ridiculous answer of 100,000. Seeing as there are plenty of people and organizations that use Excel on a daily basis [...]
While browsing through Facebook this evening, I noticed a feature that has been around for a while now, but has recently been revamped. Facebook Flyers. Having a strong interest in online advertising methods, I was drawn to this and did a little further investigation. Facebook, through their new platform “Flyers Pro”, allows its users to [...]
Over the next couple of days, you may notice the site layout and design changing from time to time. I’m working on setting up a new theme to make the site more enjoyable and easier to use for everyone. Thanks for your patience!
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According to an article today on BroadcastingCable, media giant NBC will begin offering “free” downloads of some if not all of its shows. The reason I quote free is because theses downloads, while they cost nothing, will only play in NBC’s software AND you will only be allowed to view each show for one week after [...]
For those of you who have not heard about this, Google has recently started its own 411 service and according to TechCrunch has now started promoting it through road side banner advertising. Google’s 411 service is different from some that you may be familiar with in that you do NOT have to pay for it. As [...]
Can you ever remember sitting in school as a youngster, about ready to prank one of your friends and thinking to yourself that maybe the prank you were about to pull would one day become known throughout the world? I’m sure Rick Skrenta did not think this when he was pranking his high school friends in [...]
