Now big brother bill scans your computer and reports it back to Microsoft.

Grrrr

A Texas jury has awarded $133 million in damages to David Colvin, after finding Microsoft and Autodesk guilty of infringing upon Colvin’s two software patents for software antipiracy protection. Colvin’s company, z4 Technologies Inc., filed patents for ‘passwords and codes assigned to individual software copies to prevent unauthorized copies.’ Microsoft was ordered to pay $115 million, and Autodesk $18 million for infringement of the product-activation schemes. A spokesman from Microsoft contends that ‘Microsoft developed its own product-activation technologies well before z4 Technologies filed for its patent.’ Appeals are expected.

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If you are interested here is the new “flashy” intro and download for IE7

No AdSense Account
An AdSense account does not exist for this login, as you have not yet completed an application. If you are using your AdWords login, you can create an AdSense account with the same login.

I was really confused, I checked my emails an the bad news: Google AdSense Account Disabled.

“Due Invalid clicks, your google adsense account disabled”, is the email you receive and you don’t know what you’ve done wrong. Also the email reminds you that :

Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected advertisers.

You can appeal to the account closure but it’s uncertain that they’ll enable you again. Google is really taking the invalid click issue seriously. I started searching the internet about other people getting disabled, to see if anyone has been able to get their accounts back.

But I was getting desperate after reading that people are kissing their accounts good bye after closures due to invalid clicks.

I replied to the email immediately asking why I am kicked out. There were no replys for the first day. So started changing all the adversitements on my site to other pay-per-click ads. Oh God no other PPC program pays as good as Google does. Why? Should I start worshiping Yahoo?.

I checked Yahoo’s PPC program but devastated by the notice: You must have a valid US SSN. Hey I’m a canadian can’t I participate Yahoo Ads?

I even changed my default search to Yahoo because I was so pissed off to Google.

The other day I received a brief email from Google Adsense saying “yeah you can appeal to this by sending an email to blah blah blah but it’s in our rights to accept you back or not.”

Good enough! I replyed the second email and waiting for an answers, 2 day passed.

By the time I realized that google was a really important part of my internet life. Switching to yahoo for search engine really sucked! It was really slow to do the searches, something that I haven’t realized before. I even stoped using Gmail, Google Groups etc. And I realized life without google is a real pain.

After the second day of appeal, I received another email from Google.  Hey they are taking me back!!! effective immediately and I’ll be saving my un-paid balance as well. Yes this is a good ending story. Maybe I’m the only one blogging about being taken back.(at least that I know)

I waited another 24 hour until the ad-display turns to normal.

In conclusion, in 3 days I realized how Google is important to me and to my website. I understand Google for the account closure, because there are 1000s of cheaters that they have to be careful about. But Google showed it’s spirit as concerning about my appeal. Google is really giant as a corporation but they are really keeping the amateur in spirit as they grow , concerning about each individual’s situations and etc.. That’s the difference between Micro$oft and Google I see. And I don’t think that Google will be a real big brother like everybody is affraid of.

Even if they become “the biggest” it’s no harm to the people like me. We should try to take benefit from that. But it’s a harm it’s competition and that’s too bad for them.

Anyway, loosing only 3 days of income, I’m back showing up the Adsense Ads. I strongly suggest you not to put all the eggs in the same basket, just in case. If you’re not a cheater and got a closure, don’t feel bad, explain your situation to google. Try to explain that your traffic is legit and you’re sensitive about the invalid clicks too.

They are in the end got bigger because of the people like you and me. They still care. At least by now.

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Thoughts Aside:
The search engine submission is the most basic method to drive good traffic for your website. Plus email marketing enables your visitors to visit your every so often. Several network marketing tools are available on the internet that provides internet marketing solutions. And they can also inform you in case if Google disables your adwords advertising.

check the x360 review…

Link

ps: I loved the disclaimer on the review

I feel the need to include a disclaimer before getting into this: I don’t own an original Xbox, I own a Playstation 2, I consider myself a casual gamer, I’m a fan of Open Source and not Microsoft.

Toolbar is absolutely same as Firefox toolbar WebDeveloper plus an IEBlog button, which gave me a good laugh.

Still a nice effort for MS seeing that Validate HTML and CSS options on that toolbar. No surprise it’s made by 5 interns and a developer. I guess those interns will never make it to full time employees if they continue to care about standards and etc. Somebody should tell them to stop using firefox at MS HQs too.

Nothing new in the toolbar, all just a replica.

link to the article.

http://www.dashes.com/anil/stuff/doctorow-drm-ms.html

We’ll see what will happen. I hope microsoft does not spoil RSS with IE7.

Links:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx