http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ Software Marketing News Views and Opinions Journal. Our aim is to help you and keep you informed about evolutions in the world of Software marketing and promotions en-us harry@rugles.com 2004-04-21T01:52:57-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000014.html The good news of the days is that shareware-marketing.net has received the honor of being one of teh very few companies that can carry the 'purple bull' seal: This is a mark of excellence based on the Seth Godin book... 14@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-21T01:52:57-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000013.html For the first time in a long time Yahoo! tries to show us a sense of humor. Simply search for 'What is my destiny?' and you will get a result similar to this: This comes a few days after the... 13@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-16T00:12:59-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000012.html This Meme from Franck Patrick's Focused Performance The showers beat On broken blinds and chminey-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. From the 5th sentence of page 23 of T.S. Eliot's Collected Poems... 12@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-14T22:43:15-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000011.html The recent changes in Google included a rather important change that was barely mentioned: the exile of the Open directory results in the deeper pages of Google. The open directory is not part of the google first page, its categories... 11@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ Software Marketing 2004-04-14T04:33:15-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000010.html For those wondering which is the highest click value in adwords it is for the search 'Mesothelioma' a rare case of cancer caused by Asbestos. Lawyer companies pay up to $90 per click for this... (I am sure I saw... 10@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-13T00:15:09-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000009.html Google has just updated the PageRank values of the websites along with the realted backward links which are registered in its database. This usually does not have immediate effects on the ranking pages but it is a good idea to... 9@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-08T02:18:40-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000008.html This is so good I had to share it with you:... 8@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-07T04:59:06-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000007.html A recent announcement from Yahoo! warns website business that if the chose to follow SiteMatch - the Yahoo! paid inclusion program - they better be careful on what they are submitting! As each of the pages that are submitted in... 7@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-07T02:58:31-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000006.html I got a greaty sense of accomplishment yesterday as I happened to check a few of the blogs I have in my RSS reader feed and I noticed that the shareware-marleting.net weblog is at their blogroll. It is great to... 6@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-06T02:32:47-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000005.html NetIQ the company behind the succeful web analytics software Webtrends has announced that they have come into agreement to acquire WebPosition Gold (and FirstPlace Software) the famous page analysis and search engine optimization software. NetIQ is targeting itself into becoming... 5@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-05T05:56:51-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000004.html The problems we had with our blogging tool left us a bit behind with developments. It is probably old news to everybody that Google has decided to attack Yahoo! (and MSN) head on by launching a revolutionary mail service that... 4@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ Software Marketing 2004-04-04T23:47:57-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000003.html Lets be a bit different this Friday and talk in general about thinking. From an article on Darwin magazine by John Baldoni (On the value of thinking) I copy the following: We live in a culture with a strong bias... 3@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ Software Marketing 2004-04-02T02:13:15-08:00 http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/archives/000002.html Unfortunately we have to start posting from the beginning as we suffered some serious problems with Radio Userland, our previous publishing tool. We have had great experience with Movable Type before and we hope we will stay with it for... 2@http://www.shareware-marketing.net/blog/ 2004-04-02T02:02:35-08:00