Many of you have already heard that Yahoo! has purchased or “acquired’ Associated Content, with the final takeover being expected to happen in the third quarter of 2010. What this means for Associated Content is anyone’s guess at this time, probably including Associated Content’s and Yahoo!’s guesses too. In other words, I’m not sure anyone right now, including the parties involved at the highest level of this merger and/or acquisition/takeover knows exactly what is going to happen with Associated Content when the powers-that-be at Yahoo! finish their changes.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

One article on Yahoo! clearly ended by saying, “Yahoo plans to close Associated Content’s Web site after it completes the acquisition in the third quarter.” Read the rest of this entry »

H, everyone. As many of you know, and some of you don’t, my main site, my author site and my two blogs were both hit in a malicious script attack on my shared hosting plan. For several days, the virus continued re-infecting the site, until we finally had to just wipe all the files and start fresh. Then, after two days, it got hit again. We’ve come to the conclusion the problem is on the shared hosting server, not on the site itself, not anything we’ve done wrong, but we’re still the ones who are down. That’s the way it goes.

The blog has been back up for two days, though, and it is not reinfected, so I’m going to take this as an optimistic sign that means it might be okay to put the regular site back up again too.

Unfortunately, we’re having to rebuild that site from the ground up. The good news is, it’s gorgeous! The new site will be sooo much better and more dynamic than the old one! The bad news is, we’re not up yet and I’m leaving to go on vacation tomorrow. I’ll be working with Ryan fast and furious all night to try to get it back up.

In the meantime, the guidelines to the contests can be found on the forum. Just click here and you’ll find them and lots of great folks to help you.

Thanks for your patience and understanding during this very frustrating time for us.

Love and stuff,
Michy