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Entries from February 2005

$164 Million For Typo Squatters?

February 24th, 2005 · No Comments

From TechDirt: This is scary if true, but Slashdot reports that an online marketing firm has paid $164 million for a typo squatting company that owns 100,000 domains chock full of advertising. Not only that, but the vast majority of the deal was in cash. The company in question registers tons of typo domains, generic […]

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Rogers Wireless WiFi Announcement

February 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

From Tyler Hamilton: Rogers Wireless's announcement today that it would roll out Wi-Fi hotspots in Second Cup coffee shops across the country could have been a TSN turning point for the market. Instead, it was a boring replay of past — and unsuccessful — announcements by other companies as far as two years back. This […]

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Asterisk And Telemarketers

February 16th, 2005 · No Comments

I've been messing around (and doing a bit of consulting) with the open source PBX Asterisk for a number of months now. Just found a great telemarketer torture script that whirls the telemarketer through a million menu options and sub menu options etc. Just classic stuff. The author doesn't seem to have a link to […]

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Google Maps Raises The Bar

February 9th, 2005 · No Comments

Its about time that someone did something to raise the bar with online mapping. No surprise that Google would be the one: http://maps.google.com/ Not only is it another seriously slick web application, it also has my address on it which most if not all of the others do not.

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Google Adsense Experiment Update

February 9th, 2005 · No Comments

It has been almost 2 years since my initial Google Adsense experiments. Seems people are getting excited about this stuff that Google might be experimenting with. My experiment went further than this but it probably employs similar features available in Adsense that haven't been revealed yet but are available (or at least used to be).

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End Of BlogLines??

February 8th, 2005 · No Comments

I hope this isn't true as it will likely mean the end of what is decent about BlogLines which is essentially everything but the search. I've been using BlogLines for a very long time and I've always found the search to be a bit lacking. I doubt that with Ask Jeeve's track record they will […]

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Hiring The Top 1%

February 8th, 2005 · No Comments

I might have to agree with Joel's logic here on hiring the top 1%.

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Remote Scripting Javascript and DHTML

February 1st, 2005 · No Comments

Since Gmail's slick web UI, I've been seeing more and more talk about remote scripting. Brent and I came up with these ideas in mid 2000 and Brent fleshed out JSRS for use in an online tutor service we were developing back then. JSRS was used very successfully for that service and has been used […]

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