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Free Place To Advertise Vacation Rentals

I help manage my boss’ vacation rental over at Boardwalk Beach Resort. For the past couple of years, we’ve paid hundreds of dollars to advertise her rental on VRBO. While we’ve received numerous inquiries and rentals from that website, I’ve always hated the way you updated and managed the property online. And no doubt we hate being slapped with a $300+ bill each year. Read more

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Engadget Going Overboard With New Header

I’m all for Engadgets revised and revamped new site. Ever since they changed it back in November, they’ve tweaked things here and there, usually for the good. But, it’s the new header that’s getting a bit — how do you say — overcrowded.

Maybe its me. Maybe I’m just simple-minded. Is it me? Just look at the image above. That’s the [newest] header. Clearly I liked the one before, but this new version just seems a overboard and dare I say… ugly. There’s just too much color, too many titles, and too much content in one area.

Go back to the one big header, Engadget. Go back.

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Is ProFlowers.com A Valentines Day Bust?

If you haven’t heard, 1-800-Flowers has a class action lawsuit against it. Why? Deceiving and ripping people off. This Valentines Day, I haven’t heard [or seen] one single ad for 1-800-Flowers. No — it’s all about ProFlowers.com. From TV ads, to internet ads, to radio, ProFlowers.com it seems is everywhere. With incredible prices and a multi-million dollar ad campaign behind it, it’s no wonder people are choosing ProFlowers for their Valentines Day assortments.

Lets be realistic, shall we? It’s not all hugs and kisses. ProFlowers has been heavily marketing “a dozen roses for $19.99.” I’ve heard, you’ve heard it, your aunts-sisters-brothers-best friend’s heard it. However, Consumerist is reporting that the $19.99 price tag is just the beginning. Read more

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1-800-Flowers.com Receives Class Action Lawsuit

Well, what do you know? I received a little letter in the mail stating I have the right to a $10 Gif Voucher for each purchase I made from 1-800-Flowers.com between March 1st, 2006 and February 5th, 2008. Seems like the the online flower retailer got into a bit of trouble.

According to the letter, a class action lawsuit (Molnar v. 1-800-Flowers Retail, Inc) was filed in Los Angeles on December 21st, 2007. It alleges that “1-800-Flowers made misleading statements and omitted information concerning the shipping and delivery charges associated with certain on-line purchases and floral products.” Oh snap!

Apparently the courts couldn’t decide who was right and 1-800-Flowers denied ever doing anything wrong. So, in an effort to avoid massive litigation fees, they reached a settlement agreement leading to $10 gift vouchers for anyone who bought products during 3/1/06 and 2/5/08. Woo hoo!

What’s funny about the whole situation is I have no earthly idea why the hell I would have bought flowers in the first place.

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‘Jill & Kevin’s Wedding’ Fake, Or At Least The Music

With over 35 million views, Jill & Kevin’s Wedding has been one of the ultimate wedding viral videos. That is, until this story came to light. It seems as though the newly weds were part of a marketing campaign to spruce up Chris Brown‘s image. No doubt, the wedding did happen and the people in the video really did dance to music down the isle; but, before the video was posted on YouTube, Sony had a great idea. Read more

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Engadget Gets A Facelift For A New Year

There have been many faces of Engadget. Some I’ve liked, others I have not. But, just a couple of days ago, the mother-of-all tech blogs got a facelift and man do I really like it.

What I’m sure started with a little tweaking turned into an all-out redesign. They’ve changed everything on the page including the header, title, fonts, colors and sidebar. The only part that stayed is the footer where all of the sister sites show their latest headlines.

I’m actually glad it happened though, as I really disliked their previous theme. The light blue title and stale white background was just… blah. The new one though, looks ‘perdy. One thing I would like to see changed, however, is the big headline at the very top under the search bar and logo. If it wasn’t static it would be much better suited for this area. Maybe a dynamic rotating banner.

The positives clearly outweigh the negatives because the redesign was well thought out. The quote, most commended posts, “game changer” and gadget stats are welcome additions tot he sidebar. The graph-like bars are way cool.

As much as I hate to say it, I’m now ready to change UniverseBot. I just wish I was as proficient and talented as the coders at Engadget.

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The Hottest [Female] Nerd

Sorry, ladies. This one’s for the guys. While you may think the hottest nerd is Kari Byron; boy, do I have a new hottie for you. Her name is Marissa Mayer, and she works for Google.

No, she’s not the receptionist or office manager — she’s a coder! Yes, Google’s Eric Schmidt even credits her for building “the team that designs the products we all use.” Yowza!

Oh, and a little history: she’s the first female engineer at Google! Drool.

[Gizmodo via Glamour, Image Credit: Glamour's Brigitte Lacombe]

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Get Free Coupon Codes For All Your Online Shopping

This evening I was buying some anniversary presents (yes, my seven-year anniversary — can you believe it?) and not a moment did I ever think about saving some money. That was until I saw the “Redeem Code” in the checkout section of my favorite online retailers.

I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if someone posted the online [coupon] codes so everyone could use them and save a little cash? Read more

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Oh Noes: ‘Twitter Is Over Capacity. Too many Tweets!’

Looks like the people of the world just broke Twitter. I went to check out the micro-blogging site just minutes ago and was greeted with this lovely drawing of a bunch of birds holding a whale. With it I read: “Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.”

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Fail: Gangsta Tries To Be Tough, Totally Isn’t

When posting pictures of yourself on the internet, it might be a good to look at them before hitting the old upload button. Unfortunately for this “gangsta,” he didn’t. But, fortunately for us, he did. I guess you’re not that hood when you have a portrait of Zack Efron hangin’ on the wall? Word.

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