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Google YouTube Delete Videos

October 28, 2006 · Filed Under Hollywood Gossips · 1 Comment 

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation

So much for that USD 1.6 billion Google spend on buying up YouTube for its vast pirated library of videos and the community, and now they are removing most of the videos. What is the whole point of buying up YouTube in the first place?

In the first major mass removal of content in its history, YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by a number of Japanese rights-holders, according to the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC).

Fine, I can understand that but what about home made video like Guy Commits Crime, Posts On YouTube? Why would they delete that video? There is no copyright, no nothing. USD1.6 billion to delete million of videos? Google is cash loaded. Its the worst deal ever for Google.

Guy Commits Crime, Posts On YouTube

October 27, 2006 · Filed Under Hollywood, Movies and Gossips · 2 Comments 

Most petty crimes are done by dumb people and this is a case of an 18-year old teenager from Wales. What he did what swipes pair of glasses off a charity worker and then post the video on YouTube. Which eventually lead to his arrest by authorities.

Singapore MP apologise over daughter’s critism

October 27, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · 1 Comment 

singapore blogger MP daughter

I guess this must be one of the many reason why it is good to remain anonymous. My advice is, remain anonymous if you have a blog about your personal life.

MP WEE Siew Kim has said sorry for remarks he and his 18-year-old daughter, Shu Min, made about Singaporeans who worry about jobs. In a statement issued to The Straits Times last night, he apologised for the comments he made in an earlier interview on his daughter’s criticism of another blogger.

Halloween Wallpaper Icon

October 25, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

Merrill Rainey has some adorable Halloween icons

Illustrator/designer Merrill Rainey has some adorable Halloween icons to spook up your desktop. Get the wallpaper now, it is so cute - I know, I sound childish.

DVD Jon cracks iPod code

October 25, 2006 · Filed Under Security · Comment 

DVD Jon did it again, the guy that manage to crack the DVD piracy code seems to have found a way to not unlock Apple’s Fairplay system, but by adding a layer of code that enable other manufacture the ability to built portable players that play the Apple’s itunes music.

It appears that Johansen’s technique involves tricking an iPod into thinking it’s playing an iTunes-purchased song by emulating FairPlay. According to Jon, this whole thing is legal because his software do not remove any protection.

When he was 15, [Jon Lech] Johansen got frustrated when his DVDs didn’t work the way he wanted them to. “I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it,” that is, on a PC that ran Linux….To fix the problem, he and two hackers he met online wrote a program called DeCSS, which removed the encryption that limits what devices can play the discs. That meant the movies could be played on any machine, but also that they could be copied. After the program was posted online, Johansen received an award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation - and a visit from Norwegian police.

Johansen, now 22 and widely known as “DVD Jon” for his exploits, has also figured out how Apple’s iPod-iTunes system works. And he’s using that knowledge to start a business that is going to drive Steve Jobs crazy….Johansen has written programs that get around those restrictions: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs. Starting this fall, his new company, DoubleTwist, will license them to anyone who wants to get into the digital-music business - and doesn’t mind getting hate mail from Cupertino.

Making REAL Money From Google Adsense

October 25, 2006 · Filed Under Make Money Online · 2 Comments 

Almost every geek or computer nerd has a blog and what they are likely to blog about is nothing but gadgets and computer stuff. Let face it, geeks knows nothing but computer and technology and the whole blogging community is full of these tech blog, especially blogs about adsense.

According to technoranti, 9 out of 15 of the tags have got something to do with computers. Can you see how crowded is the market? Here is a screen shot below.

technoranti tags top

Okay, now what are my chances of making money by blogging something that not many geek wants to blog about, or something that these geeks has little knowledge about. let us look at a comparison between two keywords, one that is tech related while the other is a non-geek term. Firefox and Nike.

I bet most (not all) computer nerds enjoy sports, and the result from Google Trends is:

Making Money From Google Adsense

There you go, a good comparison from Google Trends and this goes to show that the number fo people searching for Firefox and Nike are more or less same, but blogs that blog about things like fashion are rare. For example, girls don’t know much about blogs, well.. maybe they know how to blog but not all of them know how to tweak the html code and how to place adsense for higher earnings. These are niche markets that we (geeks) should explore.

Any read about the Blue Ocean Strategy book? Personally I believe it’s a very good book, a book about how to explore niche market and create a new territory, a new world.

If you’re serious about making money like Darren Rowse, the only way to be like him is not to be him. I know a lot of people try to emulate Bill Gates and those entire rich tycoons. The fact is there can only be one Bill Gates, just be yourself and if luck is on your side, then you are someone in no time.

What we need to know is how to explore these niche markets, currently I’m looking asking some of my female friends on the idea of a co-blogging. (Am I the first person using this word?). Well, the idea is female topics like fashion, gossips, make-ups and many more consider “niche market” in the sense that most of these blogs has no adsense in them. My goal? Find a partner (you should) and co-blog with her.

p.s. I have a personal blog, mainly about arts and design and this blog has less post than geckoandfly.com but almost 10 times the adsense income. Now you see the earning power writting for a niche market. What are you guys waiting for? Find a good topic and please blog something that you like and has knowledge about, don’t copy and past and a big no for those Mesothelioma Cancer topic. I hate it when bloggers tend to target high paying keywords.

Subscribe Feed and Blogger Beta Template

October 22, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 13 Comments 

Enter your email below to subscribe GeckoandFly’s feed. I’ve tried going thru the new Blogger Beta Template and couldn’t figure out how to recode my previous template to the latest GML language… I’m doom. I need to work really hard, anyone out there that can help me? or any soul that is kind enough to share their new Blogger Beta Template with me or perhaps help me to boot it to the new language?

I was thinking of a competition, a blogger template competition… since Wordpress and many other blogging platform has this, why not Blogger?

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