Does Google Understand Dialects?

I translated this email "NEW Wordze Google Database Offer!" with this site's jive translator.

Great news! Today we's iz happy ta announce da launch o' our free Google keyword download service at Wordze.

For da last month we's gots been downloading Google top terms an' storing dem into uh database fo' anyone ta download in an excel format.

As an affiliate o' Wordze ya can use dis here ta yo' advantage by posting da link ta da download form, an' picking up uh sale or two when dey join da newsletter ta download da database.

The database iz in real tyme, so it’s always updating an' getting mo' data. As I type dis here, we's gots over 90,000 top Google terms fo' yo' readers ta download. All dey gots ta do iz provide they first name, an' uh valid email address.

This offer will allow us ta he`p ya sell yo' customers into Wordze, as we's will be able ta send dem updates on other offers, an' deals dat we's run each month, including uh seminar dat we's will be holding online in uh couple months.

To tell ya readers about dis here offer, all ya gots ta do iz send dem to:
http://www.wordze.com/Gtrends?roia=!YzUxMgBVAAAU7EEAAY_m

Please remember ta change da roia= value ta yo' own affiliate roia code. We gots also added dis here option ta da affiliate link list, as we's plan ta continue ta support dis here service fo' uh while.

As always, we's wish ya da bomb o' luck, an' iz here ta he`p ya make money wiff Wordze!

The Wordze Team all ye damn hood ratz..

Amazon stinks!

Has anyone else seen this "add to cart to see price" thing on Amazon?

Here's an example.

Perhaps they are trying to stop people price comparison shopping or using automated methods of downloading price lists. Either way it still seems fraudulent, or just plain BS.


Amazon's explanation says an additional discount is in effect, and this discount is calculated in the shopping cart. It still seems extremely shoddy, as in they are giving logged in people different prices based on what they've bought in the past. It seems this is called GROI, or gross return on inventory. It's still BS

Plenty of Hulu Invites To The Private Beta

Sorry everyone, the original Hulu invites are all gone. If you setup a Google Alert for site:hulu.com/beta, the newest provisioned invites will show up. If you want one soonder perhaps you'll find one here if more are being given away. There are 30 availabe through this link: http://www.hulu.com/beta/megaleecher

My original post is below:

Found these hulu invitations in Google:

1528 hulu invites:
phttp://www.hulu.com/beta/wired

1508
http://www.hulu.com/beta/gigaom

226
http://www.hulu.com/beta/techcrunch

It's amazing what you can find in Google just from poking around.

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Google Docs And HTTPS (SSL)

Google docs now supports HTTPS. It's enabled for spreadsheets, presentations (powerpoint work-alike), and documents (writely). Previously you could enable https, but only on the docs.google.com domain (eg only in writely) , and only by typing the https URL directly. This is great news for anyone editing documents online. See the screenshot for proof.

Wordze Memberships 25$ Temporarily

So I got this email from: Wordze

SMX Social Media Conference in NY is starting tomorrow, and while we are their talking to the pro’s about more ways to cook up crazy social marketing ideas to help you make even more money we are going to run a 2 day Wordze malfunction give away!

For the next 2 days ONLY at 10 minutes till 6pm EST USA, the Wordze signup page will malfunction and give away monthly memberships to Wordze for only $25 dollars a month!

This price has only been offered one time before, back when we first launch. As its getting close to our year anniversary, we thought it would be cool if we let Wordze malfunction and give away discounts on its own for a couple days while we are out of the office.

What this means for you is that you have the next 20 hours to get your customers all excited by telling them that Wordze is about to malfunction tomorrow at 10 minutes till 6pm, and watch them stack up and scramble to get in on our year anniversary launch pricing for 2 days only with your affiliate link.

Let me stress how important this is. At this point we are $35 a month, and with the Wordze v2 almost complete we will be going to our full price of $45 a month, so the $25 dollar deal is just plain nuts, so any new customers that wants to save money better get it in the next two days!

If by chance you’re going to be at SMX, and dont have time for this crazy deal, feel free to hit me up on the floor and Ill buy you a couple beers!


Levi
Wordze

Myspace Is The Microsoft Of Social Networks (The New CSS Skin)

This makeover of the user's 'home', dashboard, or whatever you call their interface might actually make the social-networking destination more organized, usable and allow the user to see more things at a glance; in essence it functions more like facebook. Like Microsoft they're merely copying others by ripping off facebook (I've never used facebook) The rest of the site outside the internal user's home area still has that awful blue look and. When will Myspace go AJAX? Probably never. Should they? Of course. Any internal, non-search engine facing web destination should be looking at going to AJAX, but still gracefully degrade for older browsers.

What do you think about this?

PS: Is my writing good or disjointed?

How To Quickly Access Yahoo SiteExplorer and DomainTools Using Firefox's Keyword Searches

It's quite easy to quickly access webmaster/SEO tools such as Yahoo! SiteExplorer and DomainTools whois as well as IMDB and Wikipedia by using Firefox's Keyword Search feature. There are many ready made Keyword Search shortcuts in the Firefox Bookmarks Quick Searches folder; for example, type 'wp bill clinton' and you will be brought to the Wikipedia search for Bill Clinton, which redirects to the right article. In some versions of Firefox there may not be a Wikipedia Keyword Search, so we'll have to make one.

First, go to Bookmarks, then Quick Searches, then right-click any bookmark (you have to because there isn't any empty area otherwise, also I recommend you right-click the topmost bookmark to find later for maintenance). For this example I will use toolhaus.org's ebay negs tool, but more are posted below. I chose the bookmarks name as "toolhaus.org ebay negs", the Location is http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=%s&Dirn=Received+by, and the Keyword is "th", as seen in the image.
















Then, to access a person's negative eBay reviews and feedback you simply type 'th [username]', where [username] is the persons eBay username. Also, you may want to add a description in case later you might forget why you created that particular Keyword Search.
You can create your own Keyword Searches for any website that uses parameters in the URL, and replace the search term with %s. There's more Keyword Searches at the MozillaZine Wiki.
For searches which require forms the NeedleSearch toolbar can help in this regard. If you prefer to use browser based bookmarklets, there's two at smallbusinesssem and many, many more on JesseW's Wikipedia user page.
Here are some more searches which I've added:

Site	Location	Keyword
Google Groups	http://groups.google.com/group/%s	gg
Google's 1st 100 results	http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&num=100&filter=0	g
Sourceforge Project page	http://sourceforge.net/projects/%s	sfp
Wiktionary Lookup	http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s	wk
Google Books	http://books.google.com/books?q=%s&btnG=Search+Books&hl=en	b
Livejournal	http://www.livejournal.com/users/%s/	lj
Myspace.com	http://myspace.com/%s	ms
Discogs Artist	http://www.discogs.com/artist/%s	da
Alexa Rankings	http://alexa.com/data/details/main?url=%s	alexa
Web.Archive.Org Wayback Machine (this one doesn't work)	http://web.archive.org/*/%s	wa
Google Addurl Quick (lol, this doesn't work)	http://www.google.com/addurl?q=%s&hl=en&dqq=	add
eBay Item Number	http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=%s	ebi
Amazon.com New&Used ASIN (asinf [asinf])	http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/%s/ref=dp_olp_2/002-4503523-3779261?ie=UTF8	asinf
Amazon ASIN Featured Seller (KW: asin)	http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/%s/ref=olp_product_details/002-4503523-3779261?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=284507	asin
whois.domaintools.org	http://whois.domaintools.com/%s	wdt
Google Images	http://images.google.com/images?q=%s	gi
WikiSaurus	http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikisaurus:%s	ws