2Clix appoints administrators

Stan Beer at IT Wire reports software company 2Clix, notorious for suing the Whirlpool website, has gone under.

It's sad to hear of any company folding. As a business owner myself I appreciate just how hard it is to keep a business running, particularly in the technology sector.

But you can't help but think the management bought negative karma down upon themselves with their legal stunt. What's worse, Stan Beer or myself probably wouldn't have noticed their problems had they not served writs.

The big problem for 2Clix customers is what happens to their data. Given the application locks the data away, 2Clix users are at the mercy of the administrators and any buyers of the package.

This is another reason why we urge business not to go near software that locks data away. Make sure any system you buy has an open backup utility and has an export to CSV function.

Your data is your businesses' greatest asset. You need to protect it.

Commission Junction doesn't want me

Like Darren Rowse at Problogger, I'm finding Google Adsense isn't quite doing the job for the IT Queries website.

The problem is Google does its job too well. The content of the site means the Google Ads are largely for dodgy spyware checkers and registry cleaners.

Funny enough, some of them being ones I rant about on this site.

I want to sign up with commission junction, but they make it impossible as the CAPTCHA is missing from the signup page.

This isn't the first time I've had to struggle with online advertising companies. They seem to go out of their way to make it difficult to create an account.

One would think that these companies, being the engine of Web 2.0 they claim to be, would have their systems right.

Sadly it appears not.

It's a shame really because I'd like to try out Commission Junction as they seem to have some high quality advertisers.