Emergintex

Netflix recently launched the NetFlixPrize contest, where Netflix is looking to improve the recommedation system CineMatch they currently use to recommend movies to a returning customer based on his/her previous movie choices.

I say, its all good, as l-o-n-g  a-s  y-o-u  c-a-n  f-i-x the registration form issue.

I saw someone trying to fill out the form like 6 times, and it kept complaining about the ‘wrong confirmation text’ to the poor soul. On looking closer I could see that the confirmation text being entered was exactly the same as presented in the image. But still, no good!

Netfilx might first need to improve a basic web form, and then go after the Cinematch

Update: This seems to be due to spotty MSN service. I am able to log into MSN perfectly now.

Is Meebo working for you guys using an hotmail account? It started giving me an error about my username and password in last 10 mins or so.

Anyone else seeing this? Guys? Guys this was resolved. Not Meebo fault.

OK. I havent been this harsh on any of the services out there (though there are crappy services out there), but this one was too much. Not because it was a BIG issue, but because it came from a big company.

I had Google Ads being served up in my posts, just above the comment section. A small neat not in the face ad strip. For last 15 days I had been seeing that the only ads being served are targetting the keyword ‘blog‘. A quick search (on Google!) led me to the fact that it was my URL, www.emergintex.com/blog which was the culprit as AdSense was seeing that blog keyword in my URL and hence serving blog related ads.

After some looking around, I tried adding the sites being offered against blog keyword to my block list under Google AdSense, but the sucker kept on serving newer and newer blog related sites. I thought, ok let me try and remove the blog keyword from my URL. So, I moved my WordPress install to the root instead of root/blog. This didnt help a lot again (even after waiting for a day for the ads to refresh) and more than that, this way I would lose my Technorati rating, pointing to the old URI. Plus my feeds @ FeedBurner.

So I decided to axe the Google Ads. BottomLine. But the question is, WHY CANT GOOGLE give ways to BLOCK certain KEYWORDS ! Life would be simpler in that case.

Technorati Tags: AdSense

I am soooo having issues with Technorati since last night. I am not able to see my account or watchlist after I log in. Once I hit the signin button, all I see is a blank page.
But if I browse to http://www.technorati.com/ping, I can see the page, but if I click on Account or Watchlist, I see nothing. Already filed 2 support requests, no reply yet.
Anyone knows about this, please comment here…