April 2009

InfoLinks Review (In-Text Advertising)

by Jeff Weisbein April 28, 2009

InfoLinks is an in-text advertising service that allows you to quickly and easily make money off your website’s content. In-text advertising is when certain keywords on your website are used as a means of advertising. The advertisements appear in a link form which when clicked will bring you to the advertisers website or product page. [...]

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YouTube Introduces Realtime Functionality

by Jeff Weisbein April 25, 2009

After logging into my YouTube account I noticed a small bar on the bottom of my browser window reading “Realtime Sharing”. YouTube has been playing around with realtime statistics for a while (provided you enabled them), however, now they seem to be completely implementing the realtime system into place. It is still opt-in, so you [...]

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Tweetie For Mac Giveaway!

by Jeff Weisbein April 23, 2009

That’s right! I will be giving away a copy of the brand new Twitter client for OSX – Tweetie For Mac. In order to win you must tweet the following line: Follow @besttechie and RT this for a chance to win a free copy of Tweetie for Mac! A winner will then be chosen at [...]

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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Surpasses 1 Billion Infections Removed

by Jeff Weisbein April 21, 2009

It has just been brought to my attention that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (direct download) has officially surpassed 1,000,000,000 infections removed worldwide. This is truly an impressive feat and I would like to personally congratulate the entire (extremely hard working) Malwarebytes team. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware absolutely one of the premier anti-malware applications on the market and now the [...]

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Tweet-For-Help Marathon

by Jeff Weisbein April 17, 2009

I just had an awesome idea for interacting with my Twitter followers and answering some of their technology related questions. I’m not sure if this has even been done before so if it’s not completely original – please forgive me. Here is what I want to do: I want to host the first BestTechie Tweet-For-Help [...]

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How Much Longer Can Newspapers Hold On?

by Jeff Weisbein April 13, 2009

Back in January, Google announced they were no longer going to be providing newspaper advertising options through their AdWords program. Spencer Spinnell (Director of Google Print Ads) wrote: While we hoped that Print Ads would create a new revenue stream for newspapers and produce more relevant advertising for consumers, the product has not created the [...]

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Apple’s App Store Approaching 1 Billion Downloads

by Jeff Weisbein April 13, 2009

As of today, nearly one billion iPhone/iPod Touch apps have been downloaded around the globe. This is an impressive feat for Apple who only opened the App Store approximately 9 months ago. It took Apple from November 2004 to February 2006 to reach 1 billion legally downloaded songs from the iTunes Music Store. What’s the [...]

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