In my email the other day I got an invite to a closed beta service known as Wix. I didn’t remember signing up for the private beta, but I decided to see what it was. As soon as the page loaded I knew I had made a huge mistake.
Being an avid blog reader I started noticing “free link exchanges” on some of my favorite blogs. Free link exchanges have become more popular because it promotes your site for free. I decided to try out the SPOTTT link exchange service and I was pretty happy with it, at first.
I was getting a few links back to my site, but it wasn’t anyone that was going to come back again. One of my goals this year was to generate some readers and the link exchange isn’t going to do that. Having the link exchange on my site wasn’t that big of a deal until I started seeing what links where showing up on my site.
Refreshing my site about a dozen times I had four links that were questionable. The SPOTTT terms of service says no “adult” links, but these ones are sure adult-ish.
I don’t think having these links show up on my site it alright. It makes my blog look trashy and that’s no good for bringing in new readers. I want the readers to way in so I have set up a poll. What do you think?
While the Engadget Mobile/T-Mobile fiasco is just heating up, I was surprised to learn that colors can be trademarked. It’s hard to understand how “a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect” or color can be trademarked. There are only so many colors (millions and millions), but it’s not like someone’s going to find a new color any time soon (the LSD crowd begs to differ). How can companies like T-Mobile trademark a color that has been created naturally? I’ve been researching the ability to trademark colors and I have yet to understand why any company has the ability to do it.
Color trademarks won’t affect the general public, but it could affect artists and designers who have to avoid certain colors. On the other hand, this helps companies separate themselves from their competition.
I was also surprised to learn that T-Mobile isn’t the only one with a trademarked color and that there are dozens of color trademarks.
The obnoctious magenta is seen on everything from the T-mobile logo to TV commercials
“What can brown do for you?” really makes sense now.
Cadbury uses this purple on all of its packaging.
Looking at a list of old bookmarks, I figured out why I consider the bookmarks “old.” All of the sites have executed a great service, but they never took it any farther.
