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World?s Largest Pool seen from space
2008-02-26 03:14:00 Tags: pool, world, record More About: Space , World , Chile , Pool , Largest
rankspank dose of reality
2008-02-24 02:45:00 Time and again I get asked how it’s possible for me to continuously add new domains and where dear child do I get the inspiration for these creations. I use Go Daddy Bulk Domain Registration as for the thought bulb… well, that’s a totally different story. Let’s take http://www.rankspank.us for example. After watching Izea joking at ... More About: Reality , Dose
PayPerPost forum dives as posties.us jumps
2008-02-23 04:14:00 Many of the folks signing on with the posties.us forum say their afraid to use their real names. They worry about retaliation from the Izea mods on the other boards. I can tell you that the day the site went live traffic to the Izea boards sank as the posties.us traffic jumped. Following the board ... More About: Censorship , Forum , Payperpost
Hulu.com beta invitation
2008-02-21 04:15:00 Shortly after the discussion on TechCrunch and my mini Newsclipper review an invite for Hulu .com arrived in my inbox. My first impressions will follow shortly. First impression was an instant liking of the smart design. Clean crisp and well thought out. Absent was the forever loading advertisement iframe everone hates. So far two thumbs up. Before ... More About: Technology , Gadgets , Beta , Invitation
Techcrunch on Newsclipper.org
2008-02-21 01:12:00 Just came across an article on Techcrunch on the Newsclipper.org video site. Now I wasn’t heading over there to read through his usual material - no the purpose of the visit was much different indeed. I eyes-n-ears however are oh so happy for the deviation none-the-less. We’re working on a breakdown of the site as I ... More About: Society , Culture
PayPerPost crash prone Tuesday
2008-02-20 03:34:00 Did anyone else run into problems with PayPerPost last night around 7:15 through 9:25 pm? What’s that all about? Tags: PayPerPost, server, crash More About: Payperpost , Crash , Tuesday
Posties.us $1000 Tuesday
2008-02-19 13:29:00 Scanning through www.posties.us this morning I came across the news that P3 appears to have $1000 Tuesday up again. If true this is great news for all posties.
TugLink job referral network
2008-02-15 15:37:00 From a part-time number cruncher to an advertising executive to another warm body with janitorial experience to work on the plant floor, success in recruiting a qualified applicant can be a real pain. HR departments have limited resources in these tough economic times. It can be especially tough in the technology industry. Locating a social ... More About: Business , Economy , Reviews , Network , Link
Brown Street Used Brick Society
2008-02-15 15:19:00 The Great Wall of MacEwan will expand yet again. Having found a new source for old brick, Val says it’s time to get back to task at hand — constructing a wall around the back yard. Once it’s tall enough, we’ll add some support rods to hold it in place so the grandboys can climb on ... More About: Society , Brown , Street , Brick
Crete has found me and wants me back
2008-02-13 06:51:00 Corissia Group Hotels in Crete Greece presents their offering in the village of Georgioupolis, in the unspoiled western part of the island of Crete in Greece. Now is just a good a time as any to disclose that I am not stranger to travel on the islands and I’m sure Greece hasn’t changed much in ... More About: Back
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 ... More About: Website , Traffic , Website Traffic , Update
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 ... More About: Business , Economy , Reviews , Identity Theft , Theft
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 ... More About: Technology , Open Source , Gadgets , Rubin
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 ... More About: Power , Reviews
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 ... More About: Updates , Forum
Pushing your luck?
2008-02-09 00:22:00 Some folks need all the help they can get… More About: Images , Luck
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 ... More About: Business , Economy , Entertainment , Industry , Review
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 ... More About: Society , Technology , Culture , Gadgets
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). More About: Lotus , Symphony
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 ... More About: Rolling
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. More About: Check
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 ... More About: Entertainment , Communications
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 More About: Business , Economy
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 More About: Videos , Ubuntu Linux
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 ... More About: Acquisition , Yahoo!
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 ... More About: Youtube , Projects , Amazon , Ubuntu , Ebay
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 ... More About: Projects , Portfolio , Domain , Modeling , Sample
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?
More articles from this author: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, ... More About: Business , Economy , Page Rank , Advertisers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
