Microsoft Corporation has become an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and now has the ability to sell domains directly to customers.
The accredited TLDs for Microsoft are .biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org and .pro.
The list of ICANN has 859 accreredited companies. Most of them are located in US and Canada.
Go to the list.
An easy way to connect your PHP applications to Google API already exists.
The Zend Framework released Zend GData PHP5 client side componenet that will help you to connect to Google Data API which provides a standard protocol and writing data on the web - Google Base, Calendar, Blogger, and CodeSearch, etc.
The Zend GData Client Library will be integrated with the Zend Framework in the near future.
More information on can be found at: http://framework.zend.com/download/gdata
Ever wondered how looks the Maintenance Page of digg.com ?
Here it is: 
The interesting part is the block with the links. Here’s the list from the page:
Some of the links are really cool, you may check them.
Being a network marketing contrarain
By Brian Johnson
Did you know that 90% of all people in the network marketing fail! That’s correct, 9 out of every 10 people that come into this business will never achieve their hopes and dreams. One of my favorite quotes is, “Success leaves clues.” But so does failure. So if you want to be successful, do what the successful people have done. If you want to avoid failure… avoid doing what the people who have failed have done.
People flock to network marketing because of the simplicity of the system. They hear that the opportunity is a turn-key system that succeeds for everyone who follows it. So why do people fail, in record numbers in such a system? They fail because, they pick and choose which parts to follow and which parts not to follow.
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In today’s market, it s crucial for every marketer to track keyword response rates. It s simply the only way of tracking advertising results and knowing which of your keywords are working for you.
In the online marketing world, it s just as important to track your ad results. Knowing the exact response rate to your advertisement lets you to figure out how well it performed, which can help increase your profits and lower your costs.
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The official blog of Google introduced a new type of Google Alerts search - Blog Alerts.
The new Blog Alert, will notify you about new blog search results, and the new tag in search “blogurl:” will restrict your alerts to a single site or domain. Also, you may use the other search operators in Google like “|, +, -,[,]”, etc.
Still, the term ‘as-it-happens’ in google alerts configuration is not very accurate, because sometimes it takes couple of days when the Google Alerts rings the bell, but in this case we have services like TheWebWatcher, that can alert you instantly when you know the exact site that you are watching.
So, after Internet Explorer 7, today is the day of Firefox 2.
The new version is available at http://www.getfirefox.com/.
The new interface is not changed too much, and this is probably for good. A new, very nice inline spell checker is added, so when you type text in text areas, you’ll be suggested for corrections.
The new for the RSS and ATOM feeds is that users now see a preview of the content being offered and are given the option to subscribe to a feed as a Live Bookmark, using a Web service such as Bloglines, My Yahoo!, or Google Reader, or with a desktop application.
The ’security’ is enforced by Phishing Protection filter which is active by default with a local blacklist that updates hourly, rather than sending information to an external online service. Phishing Protection provides warnings, advice and guidance when Firefox encounters a Web site that appears to be fraudulent or malicious. This model of phishing protection differs somehow from the phishing protection presented in IE7, where users can “report a web-site” and create problems for webmasters.
So, you can go and try it for free: http://www.getfirefox.com/ !
Security researchers have already discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in IE7 hours after the release of Microsoft’s long-awaited browser software upgrade.
The flaw stems from error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the “mhtml:” URI handler. Security notification firm Secunia reports that the same bug was discovered six months ago in IE6 but remains unresolved. In any case, the flaw has managed to find its way into the code-base of IE7.
The bad thing is that all CSS tricks on your site that don’t work in IE7 are official BUGS of your site yet. The update will take you approximately 15 minutes.
Just go to http://www.microsoft.com and you wouldn’t miss it - the banner is more than big. One or two reboots and a couple of stu**d questions and you’ll have a brand new Internet Explorer with brand new bugs and security holes.
Happy surfing ! :)
Google’s website optimizer now lets you to test different website content on your website and landing pages. Graphical reports show which content engages your audience and results in the highest conversions.
Website Optimizer is a tool that can help users to improve the effectiveness of their websites in getting a return on their investment. By allowing you them to test different versions of their site content, they can determine what will best attract users and lead them to convert on their site.
In order to use WebSite Optimizer, you’ll need to have an active AdWords account. The difference between Google Analytics and WebSite Optimizer is that while Google Analytics tells the users what’s happening on their sites, Website Optimizer empowers them to change it. They can use Google Analytics to track user behavior, but Website Optimizer will give them the tools they need to improve their sites and get users to convert into customers.
Website Optimizer uses multivariate testing, which is a method of experimentation that allows you to test multiple variables - in this case, sections of a page - simultaneously. For example, using Website Optimizer, you could identify the headline, image, and promo text as the page sections you’d like to test, and then create three different variations for each page section. Users visiting your page during the experiment might therefore see Headline A, Image B, and Promo Text C all together, or Headline B, Image C, and Promo Text A.
You can apply for WebSite Optimizer Beta tester here.
ResultR is a meta search engine built as a high-school project that allows you to create your own search engine where you can choose from more than 30 sources you want to include in your results.
ResultR.com has grouped the best sources for news and information into eight categories - News, Social info, Media, Local, Blogs, Jobs, Reference and Shopping. The idea is to help users to find the desired information quickly by making separate requests to the respective API’s.
The advantage is that you can create your own search engine in to simple steps without registering - you choose the name of your search engine and then you choose which search engines to include.
While YouTube is gains speed in the Video Web2 Internet, someone gains speed using the YouTube - the ReviewTube (http://joeberkovitz.com/reviewtube/).
ReviewTube is flash driven web site that gives you the chance to create time-based subtitles for any YouTube video, ‘a la closed captioning’.
These captions become publicly accessible, and visitors to the site can browse the set of videos with captions.
Now it’s your chance to supply your ‘favorite’ videos with subtitles ;-)