The Blog Day 2005

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31. August 2005
Today is the first Blog Day, and so far I haven’t made a single step to participate. But now, even if my timezone told me it’s past midnight, I’m publishing some of my favorite reads which aren’t really designed for the mainstream. mehr...

Digg.com Resumee

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31. August 2005
I’ve been subscribed to the social network Digg.com which is primarily used to add interesting links to blogs, news and just plain websites to an index. But the idea of using the service is ridiculous. Digg is down almost everytime I’m checking it out. Timeouts, errors and overall connection problems become an annoyance. The following message could be displayed at least each hour twice to compete with the digging users: mehr...

Blogperience

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31. August 2005
This is so retro. I created a new blog over at Blogger and don’t know what to do with it yet. It looks funny, and it caused me already a lot of annoyance, but I’ll stick with it. In order to keep track of everything, I’ll co-brand the MikeSchnoor.com with my new Rendili service. I just noticed they don’t offer the option to enter a title. Weird… mehr...

Destroy all information Google cannot index

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31. August 2005
The Googleopus strikes back again! This is too good not to post it, and I’ve had a good laugh at that. mehr...

Konstanz

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31. August 2005
Ich fühle mich gut. Wirklich so gut, dass ich Bäume ausreissen konnte. Und was habe ich nicht alles gegessen… mehr...

9 Days until Firefox 1.5 Beta

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31. August 2005
The Developer Team of Firefox has re-scheduled their release list for the upcoming browser versions (including betas, RC1 and RC2 candidates). mehr...

High Definition Television in Germany

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30. August 2005
On October 26th 2005, Germany’s second largest broadcasting network ProSiebenSat.1 plans to officially distribute their two major tv-channels ProSieben and Sat.1 in the High Definition Television (HDTV) format. This includes to receive the channels in a constant 16:9 format on the Astra satellite signal, followed by an expansion to the cable and terrestrial networks until the end of 2006. mehr...

Opera 10th Birthday – Download Free Ad-Free Version

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30. August 2005
Download.com informs us about a time-limited special offer: You can receive a valid registration code for Opera’s current version of Opera 8. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT). I have downloaded the browser and will install immediately upon receiving my own code. mehr...

Website Owners click on Adsense

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30. August 2005
As far as I remember, the majority of professional website users apparently hate to see free content being compared with advertisement banners. But in the end, we all have to pay the bills, and a little income from selling ads even on one’s blog can be worth every buck. Sadly, the MikeSchnoor.com doesn’t produce a profit worth to mention. Hardly noone ever clicks the Google Adsense links which are visible below each entry or on the category and main websites, and on the sidebar. But for testing purposes, I’m on the run with them. mehr...

Blogspot – The Spam Domain

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30. August 2005
This morning I read a nice post by Google Blogoscoped: 60% of all Blogspot blogs are spammers. They tested 50 random blogs, of which 30 were spam blogs or had spam related content. mehr...