Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
Adding Amazon ads for different countries
Some time ago I started looking into ways to add Amazon products to help monetise a WordPress site. My major requirement was to automatically set my affiliate IDs for a range of different Amazon stores, with products appearing depending on a user’s worldwide IP location.
I was working on a site with a potentially global reach (aren’t they all?), and didn’t want to limit the potential by pushing people towards just one Amazon store. Here’s how I did it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amazon
Google, NY skanks and the right to libel
Model Liskula Cohen recently filed a lawsuit against Google because the company initially refused to reveal the name of the anonymous blogger who described her in defamatory terms on a Google-hosted blog, Skanks in NYC. Cohen then turned to the New York Supreme Court, which ordered Google to reveal Port’s identity.
Now the blog author – Rosemary Port – has hit back with a $15m lawsuit. Her argument is that Google “breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity”. In plain English, this means she thought she was legally protected from having her identity revealed, regardless of what she wrote. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: google