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UK Progressive Domain Switchover Underway

Posted on 07 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: domain switch, e-newsletter, google, http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk, http://www.vadimuspost.com, MSN, re-branding, The Vadimus Post, UK Progressive, UK Progressive.co.uk, UKProgressive.co.uk, vadimus post, Yahoo!

 Zero hour. The gradual re-branding of The Vadimus Post to UK Progressive the last few months will happen pretty much overnight tonight. The technical name for it is a ‘domain switch’ and what it means is overnight we will simply change, (for the purposes of Google, Yahoo and MSN searches and their counting system), so [...]

It Seems Sarah Palin Will Be on the National Scene for a While

Posted on 16 November 2008 by Sharon Kyle | Comments (0) | Tags: 45% of Republicans in the 2012 Presidential race, BBC, completely — uninterested in and uninformed about natio, draws the media like a magnet, google, GOP Governors meeting in Miami, has not damaged her popularity as a Republican politici, Hillary Clinton 27 Million, LA Progressive, large percentage of Republicans view Palin as president, McCain 168 Million, Mother Jones‘ Kevin Drum, Obama 118 Million, obviously, oddity of Palin’s apparent lack of interest in national, others in mainstream media, Publisher, Sarah Palin 58 Million, Sarah Palin Will Be on the National Scene for a While, Sharon Kyle, she stole the show, transparently

by Sharon Kyle
Sarah Palin draws the media like a magnet. Whether we like it or not, judging from the amount of press she got this week, it appears she’ll remain on the national scene for as long as America and the rest of the world continue to tune in or click, searching for “Sarah Palin”-related [...]

Go Ahead Spend It, We’ll Print More

Posted on 21 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $1 trillion worth of bad loans, 1 with 100 zeros after it, 1932, America 2008, banks and investment houses treated your home like chip, bought 3 loaves of bread, brilliant comment, Business as Usual, creation of a massive $700 billion dollar toxic mortgag, Criminal accountability and prosecution for those respo, cynically bet the economy would not cycle or fluctuate, Democrats warned off yesterday by the Bush Administrati, dice rolled 7-out, Drill baby drill!, former Reagan Administration worker on LA Progressive, Go Ahead Spend It, google, his Wall Street white tie base, keep the Republican house of cards Ponzi scheme game of, limit spending, line in, mugabe, one-minute statement, poof! problem gone, President Bush, print your own money, put the government in so much debt that there would nev, raise the debt ceiling from 10.6 to 11.3 trillion to co, ran the debt up to a number so big it could not fail, reducing what the government took in, retreating back into his sealed White House bunker, secret agenda of many Republicans, Starving the Beast, stunning deregulation reversal, The government of ‘We the People, trillion, trillion dollar note, wanted to balance the budget, We’ll Print More, we’re a banana republic, Zimbabwe, ’ owns controlling interest in your business

 

by Denis Campbell
In a stunning deregulation reversal, President Bush in a one-minute statement before retreating back into his sealed White House bunker, called for the creation of a massive $700 billion dollar toxic mortgage bailout RTC-like organisation to allow ‘business as usual’ for his Wall Street, white tie base. When you can print your own [...]

Google’s Real Strategy

Posted on 02 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: AdSense, AdWords, Apple, attack on Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, away from desktops, better and continually improving product, Bill and Steve’s excellent adventure, Chrome, chutzpah, do no harm, dominate, Earth, encourage developers to create more synchronised produc, Firefox, Froogle, google, Google application turns to gold, Google Checkout, judge ordered, Maps, Microsoft, militant anti-IE or MS ethos, minutiae, mobile devices, money, more web searches happen from iPhones, Mozilla, MS insisted they could not unbundle Internet Explorer f, muscle, open source, Orkut, Real Strategy, running on its own Web browser, Search, shift the ballgame, spring dinosaur merger dance, thumbed their noses at courts everywhere, trumped by Sergei and Eric’s Chrome, US and EU antitrust trials, We are Microsoft fear us, Web platform, Web way, Yahoo!, YouTube

When Microsoft and Yahoo! failed in their spring dinosaur merger dance, who knew Google was snickering in the background knowingly waiting to launch its own attack on the vaunted Microsoft Internet Explorer browser? Remember those long summer days filled with US and EU antitrust trials? Those cases of mind-numbing minutiae where judge after judge ordered [...]

I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is

Posted on 11 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1984, 28.8 dial-up modems, 40-million credit card numbers and passwords, 600 MOD laptops, ADSL, afraid, auto-generated SPAM comments, bank robber, big ad company cookies, BT Broadband, cable, CD’s and data cards, click-through ads, DoubleClick, dozens of other agencies, employees who sell data, Encryption software, everyone wants to own search and advertising business s, FBI, frightening accuracy, google, hackers attack and steal data, hassle of changing e-mail, highest level ever, Home Office, I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is, important security and personal identity stealing data, inside companies, internet, Internet security, large players in this game, meaningless whether I say no or not, missing, obscure ISP, oxy-moron, pingbacks, privacy cost, recognition software "cookies", size and ability to share and mine my viewing behaviour, surfing the web, UK MoD (Ministry of Defence), Web transaction, web-crawling tools, web-traffic, Willie Sutton, worried, Yahoo!

Willie Sutton, uttered that famous line after a long career of bank robberies a century or so ago. He would have loved the Internet.
This topic was first written about in January over Internet click-through ads. I said that unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Now with [...]

Now What?

Posted on 20 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, google, Jerry Yang, Microsoft, MSN, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo!

(Reprise article)
The fish at the end of the Pixar film “Finding Nemo” bob on the surface of Sydney Harbour in plastic bags unable to break through to the big ocean below them. The executive teams at Microsoft and Yahoo! seem in a similar situation and face much bigger hurdles whether or not they eventually merge.
Carl [...]

Sir Martin’s Midas Touch Dulling or Media Laziness?

Posted on 05 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: buyout, e-financial news, google, lazy reporting, MSN, Reuters, Sean Farrell, Sir MArtin Sorrell, Taylor Nelson Sofres, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times, Tiscali, TNS, WPP Group, Yahoo!

Which is the real headline?
TNS rejected WPP’s £1 billion pound buyout offer. What’s astounding is if one Googles TNS and WPP, there are 11-story links from: Reuters, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, MSN, E-Financial news, Yahoo! and Tiscali on the first search page.
All of them say the exact same thing regurgitating from the exact [...]

Somebody’s Watching Me and You!

Posted on 22 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1984, Business & Economy, data-mining, Double-click, George Orwell, google, hijack worm, internet, Microsoft, privacy, spyware, technology, web surfing, Yahoo!

I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of

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