The Net

Alexa Tries To Prove They Are Not Worthless

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

Mid-Week 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

Deals Vista Review

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

Google Updates Finance

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

Top 10 Scams Of 2006

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

A Chat With Akshay Mavani

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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The Net

Microsoft To Show Search Engine Users The Money

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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