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The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul

Almost everyone knows Google owns the AdSense network. Google AdSense has been credited with bringing the Internet back to life after the dot com burst of 2001. Some people may even know about AdSense for domain. This is Google’s ne…

I came across this article on Business Week about Anshe Chung. She’s is the world’s first virtual millionaire. You see, Anshe isn’t real. She’s a made up person in the game Second Life. Anshe Chung is the Sec…

Ed Lau over at the.[ED]ition has posted the interview he did with me over lunch at a local Richmond eatery. I had a seafood noodle with ice milk tea while Ed had some fried noodle with ice lemon tea. Ed started his blog on November 6 and has a…

Every new startup has growing pains and AGLOCO is no different. It seems they under estimated the number of sign-ups they would get over the thanksgiving long weekend and that created a major traffic jam. Members were getting error me…

Man, we got a lot of snow this weekend! It started on Saturday and went right on till Sunday. Sarah’s parent really enjoy it because they haven’t seen snow in years. They did what everyone who hasn’t snow would do - th…

The last time I check the Business Opportunities Weblog calculator, it said my blog was worth $6,209.94. It looks like I’ve gone up quite a bit since then.
How did the Busi…

This is an update to my post about Making Money Off Citibank MasterCard. The purpose of this post is to show how banks use these 0% balance transfer promotions to put you in the Credit Card trap. Banks are in the business to make money, not…

I was over at Stephen Fung’s blog and noticed he posted a story on a promotion from Citibank MasterCard. Right now, Citibank is offering 0% balance transfer until October 2007. Whenever I read about these promotions, I always get an…

Normally I don’t like electric cars or hybrids. It’s not that I am environmentally unfriendly, it’s just I find electric cars to be not sporty enough for my taste. Well, it seems that Tesla Motors has the answer to h…