The Net
In Alexa’s latest blog entries, they try to prove their ranking is worth more than a clothing store at a nudist camp by comparing their traffic trends to Sitemeter stats. The above is the Sitemeter stats of Tech Crunch. Unlike other sites, TechCrunch makes their Sitemeter stats freely available for anyone to look at. The blue line is the Alexa […]
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Ramblings
Please Activate Your Card This seems to be the week for receiving old and new credit cards. TD Visa sent a couple of new cards for Sarah and me. This is my default credit card that I charge everything to because it gives me 1% cash back. Citibank also sent me that MasterCard I applied for back in November. All […]
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Reviews The Net
When Microsoft announced the next version of Windows would be call Vista, a bunch of people went out and registered domain names with Vista in them. Even I registered VistaXP.com and XPVista.com. Most of these Vista domains are either parked or forwards to another site. However, some people have turned their Vista domains into fully developed sites. One of such […]
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Investing
If you’re a user of Google Finance you may have noticed they did a massive update of the home page today. Some of the changes includes comparison charts for multiple stocks and 40 years of stock market data. Stocks can be sorted by a magnitude of parameters, like market cap, stock price, search popularity, etc. There’s also an import tool […]
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Ramblings
Consumer Affairs has posted a top 10 list of scams for 2006. I’m sure most of us know about these scams but there are others who are not as web savvy as we are and it wouldn’t hurt to pass these along to them. Scammers scored at will, generating instant cash using lottery and fake check scams. They capitalized on […]
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The Net
Here’s a little update on my weekend chat with AGLOCO founder, Akshay Mavani. I wasn’t able to get all my questions answered due to time constraint. You can imagine how busy AK must be at this point of the company’s life and I would like to thank him for taking time out to talk to me. We will be setting […]
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Business The Net Wordpress
After the number 1 question of what webhost do I use to host this blog, the number 2 most asked question is, “How do you set up the Google AdSense ads on your blog?” This question comes up a lot because the reader notices that my blog always limits the Google ads to three (Google’s limit). So, if you scroll […]
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The Net
I was having a telephone chat with the founder of AGLOCO last night and he pointed me to a story in InfowWorld about Microsoft’s plan to share search engine revenue with their users. Gates said that search engines like Google Inc. get their revenues from advertising because people use these search engines. “Google’s business model is not based on free […]
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