Akismet learns Russian?

November 5th, 2008 by Sarah King

In the first real test of Akismet’s flexibility it now needs to learn Russian. For the last few days the flow of spam has been consistent – and uncaught.
It’s hard to imagine that many Russians are reading this blog but the link back to the site is worth something and there must be naive webmasters [...]

SuperStock.com get heavy over stolen images

October 21st, 2008 by Sarah King

SuperStock isn’t a site I’d visited before but they appear to be one of the bigger stock photography companies on the web. Right now I’m following a case where a guy used one of their images without permission (or paying, I’d guess). The image has been removed but he also checked online to see if [...]

Playing Games… ssssh!

October 14th, 2008 by Sarah King

This is a fun review, in order to know what I’m talking about I have get to hang out and play games. Now, I’ve visited a few arcades but haven’t really spent a huge amount of time getting to grips with the issues that arcade owners have to tackle so this is very much a [...]

Nude photos shock teacher

October 6th, 2008 by Sarah King

Now there’s a headline to grab your attention: Nude photos shock teacher
The print version of the article included a screenshot of the dating page, but to summarise: Small town teacher takes naked photo (raunchy? or one of those “before I started my diet” pics? who knows) and emails to a friend. Someone (the friend?) then [...]

Picking the best hosting for your website

October 3rd, 2008 by Sarah King

When you are just getting started in the web business – or taking a big step up in requirements – you have to pick the right hosting for your site. I know I’ve trawled through plenty of sites trying to gauge recommendations and to find the right company. In the end I’ve tended to rely [...]

TV Armor for wii accidents and sticky fingers?

September 25th, 2008 by Sarah King

TV screen protection is a new idea for me – I’ve got a flat screen on my desk but our TVs are all the old style. I was sheltering from the rain during the Olympics and chose a big electrical store as my haven – I was struck by the difference in the screens depending [...]

Review: Moshi Monsters

August 20th, 2008 by Sarah King

MoshiMonsters hardly need the publicity since they appear to have a PR company getting them phenomenal publicity. My family discovered these little critters after they got a plug on the News as the Facebook for kids! My boy was signed up within minutes!
We’d been through Club Penguin and I was under significant pressure to start [...]

Review: Gambling Live

August 19th, 2008 by Sarah King

There’s a huge amount of money to be made from exploiting the affiliate programs of the big gambling sites. A signup alone can net a double digit fee!
Gambling Live is text book example of how to take advantage of this – elegantly.
The site has a clean layout which lets the buttons for the sites they [...]