For the past five years, Yahoo! has tried to keep pace with Google’s adSense program through Yahoo! Publisher Network. The beta network, based on a pay per click contextual advertising plan, had struggled to switch over to a full-pro model, but it looks like it may never get the chance. Users were notified today that Yahoo! plans to shut down the network in a letter. They’ll pull the curtain on April 30.

It’s a beautiful day outside, but right now our focus is indoors and at SXSW Interactive. WhoLinkstoMe is in the house, flexing our muscles, and showing off what we’re all about.

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Just had a great talk with Angela over at the JavaFX booth. She was showing Ace and me this crazy new infrared-activated glove that she created. Truth be told, right now it’s just an athletic glove with an infrared [...]

Everybody’s been able to use WLTM for their own link profiles, but did you know you can now use it to study the link profiles of your competitors? That’s right. Officially launched TODAY, WhoLinksToMe PRO is the next step in the WLTM product line, a service that affords you all kinds of additional features, including enhanced reporting on the sites linking to your competitors that aren’t currently linking to you.

What’s up, everybody? We are LIVE and in action down at the Convention Center in Austin, TX. if you’re in the area, come by to say hello, check out our booth and all the cool features we’re rolling out this year, and ask  the questions you’ve been wanting to ask. We’re at booths 1108, 1110, [...]

For those who haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check out the video Ace made highlighting all that Austin has to offer. It’ll give you SXSW-ers a great idea of what stuff going on around town. If anything in the vid is unclear, here’s your unabridged guide to all things ATX.

In Google’s never-ending quest for developing a foolproof organic search algorithm, one of the search engine’s biggest kryptonites has always been linkspammers loading ranked pages up with unnatural links to sites that either don’t serve any purpose or are in bad web neighborhoods. Obviously Google has worked hard to prevent it, but the web’s a big place, and there’s only so much you can do.

Austin is a place unlike anywhere else. It’s a place where the motto ‘Keep Austin Weird’ is a way of life, even for the most straight-laced citizens. It’s a place where you can’t help but relax a little, even if the madness of SXSW is going on all around you.
In anticipation of the WhoLinksToMe.com Pro [...]

First things first: if you currently do no business with Bing and Yahoo! and don’t intend to in the oncoming future – if you use Google for adSense and and have little involvement with Microsoft’s adCenter – then the merge between Bing and Yahoo! will mean very little to you on a personal level. Market shares will fluctuate, and it’s likely that we’ll see Google try a move to outpace the competition, but you can expect for the merge to happen very quietly if you’re not already playing their game.

Once tabbed as being the undisputed leader among web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 has crumbled lately, drawing an intense amount of criticism for its instability and inability to support alpha transparency in PNG images, among other issues.