Oral SeymourEntrepreneur. Internet, Technology, Social Networking and Search Engine Enthusiast………

Google Chrome came out of beta today. Users can now download it at the official Chrome site. Users who are currently running the beta version will be notified of the new update on Friday. I can’t wait to see if all the bug fixed have been ironed out, chrome has been my browser of choice since I started getting those nasty firefox/google ssl errors.

I just noticed that Google started showing sponsored listings on the top and right side on Youtube searches. It works for web searches and I think it will work for Youtube. Its one of the many ways Google is trying to monetize Youtube and all its traffic.

Google is now allowing ads promoting alcohol and beer sales. I’m guessing one of the reasons for the change is the economy, financial and auto companies particulary are some of the biggest spenders in online advertising and they are particularly hit hard by the current downturn. The ads must promote brands or information, ads directly promoting the sales of alcohol are not permitted. Read directly from the Adwords Blog.

To comply with the updated hard alcohol and liqueurs policy, advertisers must promote the information about hard alcohol and liqueurs that their websites contain, such as recipes and brand messages. Ads that directly promote the sale of hard alcohol and liqueurs are still not permissible through our program. In contrast, advertisements for beer may directly promote its sale.

For example, under the hard alcohol and liqueurs policy, you might market to individuals searching for helpful and relevant alcohol-related information by promoting holiday cocktail ideas or the caloric content of popular spiked beverages. Under the beer policy, you might state a specific sales promotion for a great winter ale.

Hard alcohol and beer manufacturers can now take advantage of online holiday traffic and initiate campaigns that appeal to their target audiences.

With little fanfare eBay is now offering sellers the ability to request that a buyer changes negative or nuetral feedback. I’m sorry to report that positive feedback with a low number of stars are not eligible.  It is only available with the following rules

• You can send a limited number of Feedback revision requests per calendar year. For every 1,000 Feedback scores you receive in a year (positive + neutral + negative) you’re eligible to send 5 Feedback revision requests.
• You can request only one Feedback revision per transaction.
• Feedback you received more than 30 days ago does not qualify for revision.
• Feedback left by currently suspended users do not qualify for revision.
• You should report any buyer who demands goods or services not offered in your listing in exchange for Feedback.

You should probably only request a Feedback revision only after you’ve resolved the problem with the seller because you only get one chance.

When you click on the request feedback revision page, It gives you a list of feedback that are eligible for revision.

While this is a step in the right direction, Sellers are still hancuffed when they encounter a bad buyer, all we can do is report them to eBay and wait. So far I have reported 5 buyers for trying to extort items from me and while I got a response that the problem was dealt with, All 5 are still buying and selling on Ebay.

For router to router connections

Suppose you have an ADSL modem with a four port router (e.g., a D-Link DSL504 ADSL Modem/Router). You’ve bought a second router (e.g., a Belkin 54Mbps Wireless 802.11g) and want to plug this into the network to add in and to share more local machines, and to share the Internet connection. Let’s refer to the first ADSL router as router A and the second as router B.

Configure router A to issue DHCP addresses in some range that does not include one IP address that we will use for router B For example, router A might only issue IP’s in the range starting at 192.168.0.2 and ending at 192.168.0.33 and we’ll configure router B with 192.168.0.40. This is all the setup that is required for router A, which otherwise has DHCP enabled and its usual WAN setup for your ISP.

Disable DHCP for router B, and configure its WAN (Wide Area Network) to any STATIC IP. Specify a gateway IP of 0.0.0.0 (or perhaps 192.168.111.1, if your router will not allow 0.0.0.0). This will stop it sending traffic to its WAN (we won’t be using this router’s WAN connection). Further configure the WAN Type to be Static with a WAN IP of 192.168.111.2 perhaps (should be different to the A network), and a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0.

The LAN (local area network) configuration for router B should be set to STATIC with an IP address within the subnet range of router A but outside its DHCP range. We might set the LAN IP to 192.168.0.40 with a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.255 (or 255.255.255.254 perhaps if that doesn’t work) and with DHCP Disabled. In fact, router A will serve as the DHCP server for anything connected to router B.

Make sure that nothing is plugged into router B’s WAN. Connect a LAN ethernet port of router B to a LAN ethernet port of router A to have them talking to each other, using the usual ethernet cable that you would use to plug your computer into the router.

Your comments as usual are always welcome and appreciated