Archive for November 6th, 2006

Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk program pays people to work at a computer doing things that people do better than computers. One job involved taking images of storefronts and matching them up to businesses listed in a database. The original “Mechanical Turk” as a sideshow machine that it’s inventor claimed could play chess against a live opponent. [...]

Whether you’re buying to resell locally or on ebay itself or just something your heart desires on ebay, auction sniping has become the way to go to keep prices as low as possible on all your purchases. Bidnapper.com is a web based sniper service that’s now offering a 15 day free trial so you can [...]

The Tennessean reported today (11/6/2006)  about Google getting into newspaper advertising. This is something reported here on February 9th of this year and now it’s going “big time”. Hey, at least someone’s interested in buying newspaper ads! The newspaper program, to be launched this week, will enable advertisers to pick specific newspapers and specific sections [...]

Like many people wanting to make a statement and make a name for himself, Curtis Allgier did. You can even say he became notorious – he’d marketed himself so well in certain circles he officially reached “Number 1″ status. In fact, you might even say he’d branded himself. Not well perhaps, but, you have to [...]

I’m all for advertising on Craigslist. Evidently a subsidiary of Monster.com is too. The folks at Monster sponsor MakingItCount. You can see how they advertise on Monster.com to find presenters. Here’s their spiel on Monster: Making It Count, a division of Monster Worldwide, is the industry leader in “edutainmentâ€? delivering more than 11,000 free educational [...]