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Just like everyone else I saw the “Scoble Sells Out” post over at TechCrunch. As someone who started their internet career with a hobbyist site that “turned pro” it’s a topic that really resonated with me.
First off, adding advertisements to your blog does not mean you are selling out. Blogs eat up a lot of [...]

Amazon Redefines 2nd Day Shipping?

* This is a post in progress. So I’ll try to update it as developments happen. *
1/16/08 10:00a - I order a single item from Amazon.com. Nothing particularly large or bulky, in fact it’s a handheld kitchen appliance. Total product price is about $13. I opt for second day shipping, an upgrade from the standard [...]

http://www.dailydomainer.com/…
http://www.webmasterworld.com/…
If you buy a lot of domain names then you probably already knew that this was happening, but it’s finally been confirmed- there are “leaks” in the whois search system. This means that if you search for a domain name sites can find out about it and buy it out from under you. This used [...]

Duels.com Slowly Dying

I don’t know if anyone is still playing Duels.com but the the site has been at a developmental standstill for some time now and it does not seem like any of the top users could still be enjoying themselves.
I check in now and then, mainly because I am really interesting in internet gaming. The game [...]

Boing Boing Gadgets

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/
That’s right- Boing Boing has a dedicated tech page now. It’s going to be run the Joel Johnson (Gizmodo, Dethroner…) and it’s a totally separate feed from the main site (which means it’s basically a new site).
I’ll be subscribing and keeping an eye on it, they should have some very good content. Not that the [...]

Microsoft Analytics

Apparently it exists. I’m not a big analytics guy so I don’t follow analytics news as closely as I should, but looks like MS has something in the works. It is covered here.
The post and comments reveal some really interesting information, such as that the system could possibly give information on Google Adwords tracking [...]

This is just ridiculous.

http://lauren.vortex.com/modern-major-googler.mp3

Worth a listen though…

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