Posts Tagged ‘digitalcolony’

Google Pulls Plug on Blogger FTP Accounts

Told ya.  Two years ago in the post Death to Blogger, I said this about the Blogger FTP service. I’ve been with Blogger since April 2000 and I’ve finally had enough. It is clear that Google has no intention of repairing the code that runs the FTP accounts. It is slow and buggy. Today Google [...]

Web Goals for 2010

The primary focus of my web goals for 2009 was to redesign INeedCoffee. That never happened, because that goal changed into launching the new Coffee Hero website. Coffee Hero then became  the clear focus for 2009.  Also in 2009, MichaelAllenSmith.com got a redesign and DigitalColony now looks like Seattle instead of Southern California. What is in [...]

Amazon’s Weak Defense

After lashing out at Amazon for moving the images to books used by Associates, I got a response. Here is their defense. It seems that you are using a Third party application to build your links. If that is the case you need to contact them about links breaking. We offer online automated link-generating tools [...]

A Little Digital Colony History

In April, I celebrated 10 years of my coffee site INeedCoffee.com.  For some reason I thought that my second site DigitalColony.com had a September birthday.  I was wrong.  After digging through old backup discs, I have uncovered that it went live in May 1999.  Happy belated birthday! Digital Colony logo from 1999 Last year I [...]

Amazon Link With Image Tool Has Been Updated

Because Amazon developers are incapable** of creating affiliate tools that are XHTML compliant, I built one two years ago.  This morning I updated the tool to add some additional stores.  I also added the ability to create text only links.  If you have an Amazon Associate ID, feel free to use this tool. Build Amazon [...]