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Website traffic update for macewan.org
2008-02-13 05:54:00
Yes, I’m staring at the clock ticking down to 12am. This is way past my usual bedtime, but I just got an unusual offer. One that really can’t be ignored. OK, back to the macewan.org traffic update. Below you’ll find a graphic demonstating the upward trend over the last month or so. And while I ...
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Identity Theft
2008-02-13 05:19:00
It’s important to have that secure feeling that comes with knowing someone is in your corner looking out for you. With the topic of identity theft the Lifelock stands out. You’ll find them in your corner working on your behalf to help protect brand you. They back up their ability to protect you with the ...
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Google Android
2008-02-13 00:58:00
Symbian, Apple, Macrotard along companies currently providing Linux based mobile OS’s may scoff at Google ’s Android offering publicly, but privately the back porch brick drop must have surely started. Google lost credibility with me after their TLA & Izea P3 member targeting. That should have been beneath them. You expect that from some companies that ...
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Rose power
2008-02-12 03:54:00
What besides the red roses expresses your true feelings about a person? Through of my adult life and most likely my early adult too I’ve known the meaning of the Rose . For the most part I’m what you call a feeling sharing dofus. With gifts I’m even worst. Some kind of phobia about giving and ...
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updates
2008-02-11 21:35:00
So by 9:00am’ish on Feb. 8th macewan.org had received 435 views. As seen from the graph below traffic continues upward - great news. Two new sites were rolled out recently. That leaves me with time for a consulting job (SEO, dev & advertising) along with my goal of 2 new stores (BuyBANS), CarolinaHockey.tv with assistance of ...
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Pushing your luck?
2008-02-09 00:22:00
  Some folks need all the help they can get…
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An entertainment industry review
2008-02-08 15:27:00
The inner workers of a sites back end fascinate me. Take the world of entertainment sites such as gambling and that surrounds it. Did you know that they use C++ and Java to produce those sites? Java I suspected because of Sun Microsystems media blitz of past emphasizing security. Admittedly my knowledge of Casinos or ...
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Google Apps new Header/Footer feature.
2008-02-07 19:44:00
As seen in this video Google is expanding Google Apps to include the Team Edition. A quick review of the offering shows the ability to share documents and calendars quickly. Now, I’ve been a beta tester of Google Docs from the time before their Writely acquisition. Only now, in Jan., they have added the ability to ...
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IBM Lotus Symphony
2008-02-06 16:35:00
Test installed on a Winders boxen. Works, GUI is easy on the eyes, but it’s gut wrenching slow to the point of pulling your hair out. More to follow. As stated on their site this is BETA software and true to form it tended to crash when browsing (due to “known” Microsoft Internet Explorer problem).
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Rolling along
2008-02-05 18:23:00
Just received (yeahboywi) approval with Netshops. Upon review of your application and credentials, you have been approved to participate in NetShops. I’ll be testing it on one of my parked domains using a script specific to NetShop products. Now, I’ve never even uncompressed the script and looked at the code let alone move towards setting the software ...
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First Clickbank Check
2008-02-05 14:41:00
Got my very first Clickbank check yesterday. There’s something special about holding that piece of paper inyou hand that just can’t be duplicated with Paypal digital deposits. Any day now the Google check will come in and I’ll blush with excitement again. Tip of the hat to BANS software for making those revenue sources available.
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Risking Communications Security
2008-02-05 02:38:00
Folks from SRI, Princeton, Columbia, two from Sun, University of Pennsylvania have put together an interesting article set to appear in the coming IEEE Security and Pricacy journal. In it we’re told keeping data scraping hubs to spy on ourselves poses danger. Them thur turist cud use’t ‘gainst usins. Tip of the hat for pointing ...
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Google on Microsoft?s Yahoo! hostile bid
2008-02-04 17:11:00
Mr. Drummond asks whether we can expect Microsoft Internet behavior to mirror their “inappropriate and illegal” influence on PCs. Tags: Yahoo !,, Microsoft,, Hostile, bid,, Google
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Ubuntu Linux Videos at UbunTube.net
2008-02-04 13:34:00
UbunTube is up and running for those interested in Ubuntu Linux videos. Tags: Ubuntu,, Linux,, videos
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Microsoft?s Yahoo acquisition
2008-02-02 06:01:00
For over 10 years Microsoft has unsuccessfully competed with Google on the search front. Practically everything they touch online turns to dust. Yahoo ! uses opensource throughout some of their webapps so can we expect this to continue after the merger? How about the login process for Flickr? Only recently folks have completely switched to needing ...
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We?ve been Hoodwinked!
2008-02-02 01:46:00
Ollie is spending the night to help us through watching the Cory Edwards animation Hoodwinked . Neil “I hate kids” Smith’s 2006 review for BBC gave a scathing review calling it a “CHEAP ANIMATION AND FAR-FROM STELLAR CAST”. Nonsense I say and other agree that Neil is just jealous of not being cartoonized by the studios. Red ...

Ubuntu YouTube Ebay Amazon Mashup
2008-02-01 18:31:00
Diversify. I can’t stress this enough. Your blogs Google Page Rank will fade in importance when revenue comes from multiple sources other than your blog. Besides, posting for cash is time intensive. An example of the less time consuming alternative would be the BANS sites I’m running. Currently there are 20 sites total where I ...
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Domain portfolio sample for modeling
2008-01-30 00:00:00
Quick update on my BANS (Build a Niche Store) holdings. January 27th came in with our 20th site in this segment. Each store is monetized across several streams. This is to prevent a catastrophe of any one company from impacting the bottom line too heavily. The purpose of a BANS site is to set them ...
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Remember playing I WANT THAT?
2008-01-26 20:10:00
We’ve been teaching Ollie a fun game. Take all the Sunday newspaper circulars and go through them, one page at a time. Every person has to point to one thing on the page they will buy. One thing that they need. Or want. Val says she played the game as a kid and the Sears ...

Fourteen thousand advertisers to ignore Google?s Page Rank?
2008-01-25 13:23:00
This will obviously cause quite a stir in the blogging world. Reading through the Izea townhall meeting transcript a few statements stuck in my mind as encouraging for everyone involved. First, Izea is a fast moving target not easily thrown off course by Google ’s attempt at censoring bloggers through PR (pagerank) deletion (Google Smacking). Second, ...
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Love a game?
2008-01-25 00:32:00
I’ve been asked by the good folks at OverStock to check out their Game -O-Love . The very first thing that needs to take place before we begin is a disclaimer. I love Overstock.com. OK, with that said let’s start by letting you know that prizes may be in your future if you visit GameOLove dot ...
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1st Man Made Genome or First synthetic genome spells disaster
2008-01-24 22:03:00
 In the event you haven’t could this in the news…  Scientists have built the first synthetic genome by stringing together 147 pages of letters representing the building blocks of DNA. via: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/ news/2008/01/synthetic_genome Tags: 1st, Man, Made , Genome
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Ask.com last hope for bloggers?
2008-01-24 18:07:00
“Ask.com Nabs Former Google Exec” sent my mind spinning through possibilities of wonderous synergy ideas. In the article it states that Cesar Mascaraque, previously of Google, has been hired by Ask.com as their European managing director. Good for Cesar. My mental fourth of July moment was an Izea & Ask collaboration encouraging the use of ...
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Time saving find on this chilly Tuesday morning
2008-01-23 04:37:00
I don’t spend much time talking about my day job. Don’t get me wrong I’m extremely proud of where I work and the job I’m tasked completing. We’re (I say we because it’s only as a team that we succeed) a dedicated team of departments. It’s the type of job were one minute I’m coaching ...
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Yahoo captcha broken by dead actor?
2008-01-22 07:00:00
Roughly speaking the flow of spam doubled in ‘07. Whispers are swirling that Yahoo !’s CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) could be compromised up to 35% of the time. This according to “John Wane” a security researcher *read blackhat* from Russia. Not seeing the main media sources out there picking ...
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Do you know an outstanding fundraiser / development director for PCF / Miro
2008-01-21 17:20:00
  From: Nicholas Reville close Nicholas Reville Executive Director , Participatory Culture Foundation Greater Boston Area Current: Executive Director at Participatory Culture Foundation Add LinkedIn profile pop-ups like this to your Outlook or web email. Date: January 12, 2008 To: ...
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What’s the big Izea Ted
2008-01-21 16:08:00
This is in response to my homie at bloggerista where he possess the question of PayPerPost filing an antitrust claim against Google? To think that an antitrust case isn’t part of the exit strategy at IZEA is probably naive. -> As stakeholders in what happens, a lot of bloggers like myself are anxious and impatient, but we don’t have the wherewithal to fight the battle in court. Hold up tiger. Has an exit strategy been discussed by Izea? If you have an inside source you’ve been holding out on us. Google is doing what Microsoft does best. Leveraging their monopoly position to stomp out competition. Izea’s board of directors should have suggested immediate action in saving face with the bloggers that make up PayPerPost. Instead Izea followed immediately behind Google and dropped us like hot potatoes. This was a huuuge mistake. Robert MacEwan said… Is Izea going to address those of us that previously had higher PR? We really should have been grandfathered in ...

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras helps celebrate J
2008-01-21 08:24:00
Let me get this straight. FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras saw now problems with Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick. She saw no reason to recusal from the review of the proposed acquisition. So at one time she was partner at Jones Day though not an equilty partner like her husband. He has since converted from an equity to a non-equity status at Jones Day. See everyone! No problems here. As petitioners note, I formerly was a partner at Jones Day (though, for the record, not an equity partner, as the Petition incorrectly states). Accordingly, applicable conflict rules required that I recuse myself, for a period of one year, from any matter in which Jones Day represented a party. Under the applicable ethics rules, an employee has a “covered relationship” with, inter alia, “[a]ny person for whom the employee has, within the last year, served as officer, director, trustee, general partner, agent, attorney, consultant, contractor or employee[.]â€� 5 C.F.R. at § 2...
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1st Man Made Genome or First synthetic genome spells disaster
2008-01-20 22:03:00
In the event you haven’t could this in the news… Scientists have built the first synthetic genome by stringing together 147 pages of letters representing the building blocks of DNA. via: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/ news/2008/01/synthetic_genome
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My Sunday morning thoughts
2008-01-20 19:03:00
At some point Ollie has mentioned Miffy. Might have been during bedtime - my best guess. Anyway, in reading through “Surrender, Dorothy: Reviews” this morning I caught a glimpse of Miffy’s contest. I have zero information on the contest so you will have to visit http://surrenderdorothy.typepad.com/books for details. Somehow and we are all familiar with the experience– I came across Curious George at Ty’s Toy Store (Google it for link). I’ve seen the Curious George movie and even possess merchandise in the form of the Curious George flash light - push a button and his hat opens to reveal the bulb (ubercool). OK, so that is on my mind this morning as I procrastinate in setting up 4 or 5 stores I’ve alloted myself for today. What else is going… I consulted on setting up an industry specific social networking site, discussed branding and link farms. The idea is to bring the masses in this particular group all together to discuss their ind...
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