Negative Logic

Back in September I told you about Alex's Million Dollar Homepage. In about two months he has made more then a half million dollars. Let’s do the math. I figure that averages 250,000 a month. Do I really have to say anymore?

Hundreds of pixel-grid copy cats now exist. The Million Penny Homepage has almost reached its goal of 10,000 USD. It’s currently at 8.4 grand, not bad. This is just about the only copy-cat to make any money.

I think this is just an internet fad that will quickly die. Alex will hit the million dollar mark. Traffic to the site will drop to almost nothing. Then everyone will forget and move on.

It looks like Google has taken down Google Base, again. Here are some pictures of the soon-to-be Google service.

So, it looks like we have a working version of Google Base, again. Its not literally working, its uhhh, just online. Buggy; is the best way to describe this service. If you can login, consider yourself lucky. I’m not even sure if anyone can log in. That being said this is probably an Alfa release.

We don’t know much about this service. It’s some sort of eBay/database/content thing. I can no longer access the page. I just see a box asking for user/pass and it never changes. It seems like this is the case with a lot of people.

Here are some screen shots:

Main Page
- Just in case they take the page away again.
Adding items
- This is the crude interface to add content
Add vehicle
- This sure looks better then the previous shot

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It looks like we will finally see a decrease of splogs on Blogspot. Splogs are simply blogs made for spam. The amount of splogs created with blogger.com and hosted on blogspot was getting out of hand. It seems a recent out crying of bloggers has pushed Google to do something.

Google has implemented a system that can detect splogs and then force them to take a CAPTCHA test. It’s something like a DUI test for computers. The only difference is you will come back human or computer. Sound familiar? It’s just a fancy way of saying “those-little-picture-boxes-that-make-you-type-in-words-to-pass” or something like that.

The genius part of this system is that it doesn’t test everyone and it doesn’t limit anyone but the spammers. I’m sure that it will have false positives. In that case all you have to do is pass the CAPTCHA test.

CAPTCHA test

Don’t know why I’m onto this
DUI thing.

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I have not had time to make any updates, sorry. Don’t worry I haven’t lost interest and plan on picking it back up again. If you didn’t notice we have a new look, orange.