eBay Sues Alleged ‘Cookie Stuffers’
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and Brian Dunning and Thunderwood Holdings.
eBay says the men devised software programs that, “unbeknownst to the [computer] user, redirected the user’s computer to the eBay Web site without the user actually clicking on an eBay advertisement link, or even becoming aware that they …

No matter you got a blog or an e-commerce site getting visitors engaged with the site helps increase the loyal visitor count.
You can get the visitors engaged in many different ways. You can run a contest, give away something free, offer a free service and many other things.
I like one of the techniques blogger ShoeMoney does on his blog. He got a “Free Shirt Friday” event every friday. He recieves T-Shirts from different websites/companies and he wear them, take some pictures and post them as a blog entry. As an …

This is an example of very aggressive marketing, one forum advertising on another competitor forum using AdSense.

Now lot of people would think its unethical. I have seen many different forms of marketing starting from business cards to thongs.This one is sort of on the extreme side where the ad text is saying “Sick of DigitalPoint?” and the ad is right on Digitalpoint.
Picture from http://www.webcosmoForums.com

Recently a friend of mine asked me take a look at the problem. She have a blogger blog for a while now. Then she bought a domain name from Google and set it with Google API. And the whole thing wasn’t working properly. She asked me for little help, and after spending several hours I found this solution.
* If you buy a domain from Google set with Google Apps they would set the DNS, MS and some other data for you. As a result your domain would point to the …

This error may pop for your applications as you try to connect to the databse using SQL login. Why? When you installed the SQL database you probably have chosen the Windows Authentication only.

Recently internet world talked about the launch of a new search engine, Cuil. It was launched by an ex-Google employee. It made the news big time, seem to be more then what it deserves. Many other search engines emerged in recent history, but none made that kind of news.
I am not going through the analysis if its any better then the existing search engines; I rather find it fascinating how successful their marketing campaign was. They been very successful making the launch news viral. Many bloggers, forums talked about it; …

You would receive this error for your application if you multiple versions of .Net installed and your .Net version for the application is not set right.

If you happen to be working with a class in a class library and need to use System.Web.UI then you are likely to get an error on compile; if you do not add the System.Web dll on the references.
Adding the System.Web will allow you access many of the Web function from the class in a class library or so.