eBay has stopped all auctions on it’s site of Sony’s PlayStation 3. These are basically pre-release sales of products that have not shipped and therefore violate eBay’s rules. This takes care of the “what if? Sony delays the release of the…
Tech News Update – Google, Adobe, Apple
Google has released the once invitation-only adWords Editor. It’s? version 2.0 desktop software? that anyone can now download and install. This software allows you work offline, search and replace text, (whoo-hoo) and has a keyword grouping tool. This will please any Google…
Donald Norman wins the Benjamin Franklin Medal
So you’re walking up to a door you’ve never been through. As you get closer you notice there’s a nice handle to pull and so you step up, give it a nice pull and your arm almost comes off because…
Partner to succeed and some tech news
How do you succeed in the fastest pace internet yet? You team up. Or partner, or whatever you want to call it. The idea is to find someone you can get along with professionally that has the opposite skill set.…
When an Algorithm just isn?€™t personal enough
Chacha.com aims to be the search engine of choice in a web 2.0 world. This is a human-edited search engine with personal guides to help you find what you’re looking for. Chacha.com is currently claiming 3000 human guides that can…
Google buys YouTube Flash application with Users for 1.65 Billion.
Google has officially bought YouTube. 1.65 billion seems a bit high. One thing I find interesting is the technology that makes YouTube possible. This is basically a Flash-based website. The technology that powers YouTube and Google Video is Flash. It’s…
Firefox clean AOL old tricks and Google Forwards Literacy
I reported some serious security flaws in Firefox and apparently it just wasn’t true. Although Mozilla is being careful with their wording, it appears that the hackers made the announcement to gain popularity. Dozens of other news organizations were involved.…
HP Indictments and the Google Truth Detector
In the news, indictments were handed down today by the California Attorney General to Patricia Dunn and 4 others at HP. They basically went about getting information illegally. Fraud is the technical term and these are felonies. This is a…
Website and feed location update plus Gadgets and Macros
Our original version of this site will be removed and permanently forwarded to our new site this weekend. So please be sure and update your RSS Feed pointers to our Feedburner feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wowtechminute We also have a comments feed…
Localized Search Engine Marketing – Live from SES Denver
Today’s tip on localized search engine marketing comes to us from Rochelle Paulet, from the show floor at Search Engine Strategies in Denver Colorado. Most webmasters, get their customers from local small businesses. Introducing a nationwide SEM campaign just doesn’t…