So we have wireless-ready TVs, wireless-ready DVD players, Roku, Chromecast, game consoles, and who knows how many other devices attached to our TVs. Now here comes Amazon with its amazingly innovative Fire TV that does incredible things such as, wait a second, stream videos to your TV just like any other device. Why again do — Continue reading »
Was Bitcoin a Fad?
📆 December 18, 2013
Remember the Million Dollar Homepage? Back then everyone thought pixel advertising was the future of web marketing. People went crazy over it, pixel sites popped up like weed, and then the whole thing faded away like it was never there. To me that is what bitcoin is. Sure, I have a few bitcoins and I'd — Continue reading »
Network Solutions, More Like Network Problems
📆 July 17, 2013
Network Solutions (netsol), the company behind domain names had a rough day today and it dragged its customers down with it. Apparently a DDoS attack knocked out their network making hosted web sites and DNS servers inaccessible. This site, while not hosted on netsol, does have its name servers hosted with them and so it — Continue reading »
The End of Cheap Domains
📆 May 30, 2013
Got an email from 1&1, the German domain and hosting company, that their domain pricing is being raised. In order to stay competitive and continue to offer you excellent services, we need to adjust our pricing structure. The following new domain rates will be changed to $14.99/year, dependent on your individual renewal date, at earliest — Continue reading »
Amazon’s .book domain grab
📆 March 11, 2013
I'm not sure why anyone would see any reason behind Amazon's move to hoard a bunch of gTLDs (global top level domains), other than pure greed. In a recent open letter (PDF) to ICANN, Association of American Publishers rightfully opposed granting Amazon the control of the .book gTLD. It states: In short, Amazon makes clear — Continue reading »
Megaupload Injustice
📆 January 21, 2013
So the founder of Megaupload is back with another file-sharing service. Good for him and good for the millions of would be users who use such services. Let's reserve judgement on what Megaupload is allegedly guilty of but one thing is for sure, American media is but a means to corrupt and bend minds and — Continue reading »
Too Small to Succeed
📆 October 8, 2012
I used to think that the Internet was the great equalizer in the business world. A small guy with programming skills and a big drive sets up a new site and offers a novel service. The service goes viral and the small guy becomes a small company and builds and expands his way to success. — Continue reading »
GoDaddy is Sorry
📆 September 15, 2012
Got an email of apology from GoDaddy for the outage they had earlier this week. It sure was a real pain for many and no doubt many lost business over it. The hosting customers have received a one-month credit for their trouble. The rest, who have a domain or two with GoDaddy, only got the — Continue reading »
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