Bloomington Startup Weekend LIVE

  I’ll be broadcasting live from Bloomington Startup Weekend sometime after 5pm today. Here is the link to the UStream page: http://ustream.tv/channel/bloomington-startup-weekend

DEC
05
2007
domains
observations

Local Expiring Domain Names

I have a mild addiction to domain name speculation. It’s purely small time (no $10,000 domain purchases here). Just the adventure (if you can call it that) of snagging reasonably interesting domain names when they expire that have fallen under the radar. I regularly check a few sites that list expired or soon-to-expire names just [...]

NOV
05
2007
observations
tips

Firebug can make Gmail slow

If you are using FireBug while using Gmail, it could be slowing down your browsing experience. If you’d rather not turn off FireBug completely, here are some simple steps to improve the speed of Gmail from the Gmail help files. Click the green or red icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window [...]

Facebook and the future of college social networks

I’ve been reading about all the recent changes at Facebook like integrating information feeds for their user’s actions at other sites and the privacy wall that continues to get lower. A Techcrunch article talks about competitors for Facebook in the “college students only” market and how viable any of them are. Many of the comments [...]

OCT
29
2007
links
observations

Google Pagerank Update (finally!)

Sometime last week, Google pushed their latest update to PageRank out to the world. It had been a long time since the last update and I was starting to lose hope that it would happen this year. But, it did, and the news is mostly good: wpstar.com: PR 4 (was PR 0) wpzipper.com: PR 5 [...]

Inappropriate ad next to CNN story about missing skydivers

I was reading the latest headlines on CNN.com earlier today when I came upon a story about a plane carrying 10 skydivers that had crashed. 3 of the people on board were currently missing, but presumed dead. As I’m quickly scanning the details of the story, I notice the flash-ad next to the story is [...]

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