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AC's articles seem to capture prominent spots in Google. The same as Wikipedia and other popular websites. However, something always caught my eye.

AC's Board of Directors lists several individuals with backgrounds related to Google:

• Patrick Keane: "Prior to joining CBS, Keane spent more than four years at Google, Inc. He served as Head of Advertising Sales Strategy at Google, overseeing the group responsible for developing and managing the strategic plans and relationships critical to growing Google's advertising customer base. He was the original founder and programmer of Zeitgeist, Google's annual thought leadership forum. Keane also built and led Google's North American field marketing team, an organization comprising industry marketing, sales analytics, sales marketing, and corporate events."
• Ron Conway: "Ron Conway is the founding general partner at Angel Investors, LP. Angel Investors LP has two Funds with committed capital of $175M and invested in the early stages of Google....."
• Rich LeFurgy: "Rich LeFurgy is the founder of Archer, an online and brand advertising consultancy based in San Francisco......Current and past Archer clients include: America Online, Feedster, Google"

I am not accusing AC of anything shady. Actually, this could be a wise decision to choose individuals experienced with related mediums. I am just wondering what is your opinion on a content company's relationship with its advertiser in this manner?

RSS and APIs are two ways to access data from a remote website. The difference between both methods are the output and control. You are probably familiar with RSS from the little orange icons you see on blogs.

However, APIs are a much more complicated beast but the benefits are mutual for both the domainer and the website providing the API. Companies find that they actually increase value (and in most cases revenue) when they provide developers with access to their data. This allows people like me to provide domainers with branded solutions for their domains. The product domain solution is an example of just that; it taps into Commission Junction's API and therefore we can use brandability to upsell CJ's advertiser products.

CJ is a light example. There are hundreds of APIs available for just about any type of development: travel, hotel, music, businesses, auctions, retail etc all waiting to be combined with a killer application and delivered to your website visitors.

If you would like consulting on how APIs can work for your domain, feel free to drop me a line.

By default, Firefox Thunderbird will forward email as attachments with the .eml extension. This hasn't been a problem for me until today when the recipient's email server blocked by email due to the attachment. There is a way to switch to inline forwarding, however, Thunderbird has made it a bit difficult for average users. Here's how to turn the default and switch to inline forwarding:

In Thunderbird select:

Tools >Options >Advanced > General > Config Editor

The "Config Editor" will be a button on the right side bottom under the "General" sub-tab of "Advanced". 

The Config Editor looks like this:

Type "forward" into the input box until you get an option that looks like this:

Double click on the row and change the value from "0" to "2"

And that's it. Your emails will now forward as inline and not attachments in Thunderbird.

Digg, 1998

Yahoo, 1996

Microsoft, 1996 

Google, 1998

Myspace, 1998

Facebook, 1999

Wikipedia, 2001

Blogger, 1999 

Craig's List, 1998 

eBay, 1997