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Refreshr traffic generator goes beta

~ Posted in Web on August 13th, 2007.

The much anticipated Refreshr web statistics tool is now officially in beta. SEOists and traffic statistic obsessives worldwide can now rejoice.

WebTrafficDrive, the product’s makers, officially made the announcement at 16:00 GMT yesterday at their global Headquarters in London. The reaction was initially of wild enthusiasm which then dissipated into muted appreciation.

Refreshr is a website tool that instantly ups the amount of hits to any website. Once installed on your local machine, the Refreshr bot simply ‘visits’ your website through your internet connection and masks itself as a different visitor (upon refreshing) every time it is …

Lolcat Owner: I Haz No Happy With Grammer

~ Posted in Web on August 3rd, 2007.

A reporter’s account of a harrowing tale. This feature article is exclusive to The Technology Herald.

Judy Waggledagger was shocked and distraught after finding a doctored photo of her cat on a Flickr account she was browsing on ‘her Internet’ she explained to The Technology Herald. We were sitting in a trendy café in Manchester Airport, Britain, and Judy was scrunching up her napkin in anger whilst giving her account of the story.

Two months earlier English teacher Judy was happily uploading her weekly batch of cat photos to her Flickr account. She glowed in pride with her efforts as she had …

Google Introduces AdSpeak

~ Posted in Web on July 31st, 2007.

With the dominance of Google’s services, it’s no surprise that a new advertising tool is being launched later this month. With a monopoly in the online text ads industry and a succesful start in their campaign to rule print ads, Google have decided to pioneer adverts in a new media - speech. A product to tie together the virtual and real worlds. Soon, people won’t be having normal conversations but will be spouting marketing phrases randomly during speech. They will be AdSpeakers.

But exactly how do they plan to achieve this? Well, the concept is simple. They take the …