eBay Bans Google Checkout
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Jul
6th
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eBay’s Safe Payments policy states that a payment service must have a “substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services.”

Google’s spokesperson said yesterday, “Google Checkout is not a beta product. Google has a long history in billing and payments for AdWords and for premium services, such as Google Video.”

Okay, so Google has been processing peoples’ payments for awhile now in other areas, but for some reason, they are considered new to the game. Seriously, who doesn’t trust Google? All I know is that if Google came out with running shoes tomorrow, I would buy them because it is Google and they don’t put products out there that don’t live up to our standards.

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Block Ad Servers
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Jul
5th
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Popup blockers not working right? Stupid ads still showing up when you don’t have time to close them all? Then this guy is your friend. He created a host file that will block 99% of all ad servers from your computer and should stop most of the popups and other silly junk you are typically overrun with while on the web.

Try this out at your own risk. Everything looks good to me, but I do not warrant this host file in anyway.

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Real Estate to Spend More Online
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Jul
2nd
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The Web has put the real estate ad industry in constant flux in recent years, and a new Borrell Associates report indicates there are no signs of things settling any time soon. Indeed, online real estate ad spending is expected to grow from $2 billion this year to $3 billion by 2010, rising from a 17.7 percent share of all real estate ad spending to 32.1 percent.

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