It is hard to say anything positive about Yahoo since Marissa Mayer took over the helm. Useful services (e.g. Pipes) have either been eliminated or are just languishing (e.g. Mail). Today Yahoo Mail is down again. Alibaba's stake hasn't turned out to be the savior it was once deemed. At this point the stakeholders are — Continue reading »
Can Jet Beat Amazon?
📆 July 26, 2015
The idea behind Jet, a new online marketplace site, is simple. Borrowing from Costco's concept, Jet charges its clients an annual fee and in return ships products to customers with no mark-ups and in many cases with substantial savings over other shops, including Amazon. Being a Costco fan, I like Jet's model. Add to that — Continue reading »
Craigslist eBay Motors Car Scam
📆 June 27, 2015
I'd been in the market for a used car when a too good price on Craigslist caught my attention. I'd sold a street bike on Craigslist a few years ago and had a good experience so figured to go into this but with raised antennas. An email later, the seller reveals a sob story about the — Continue reading »
Facebook Like, The Big Fake
📆 September 16, 2014
Earlier this year this insightful article delved into the business of click farming where people and businesses (and apparently even the US government) pay shady companies a modest fee for thousands of Facebook likes, or Twitter followers, or YouTube views. Only that these likes and clicks are generated by click farms, either malware robots and — Continue reading »
Stack Overflow on stackoverflow.com
📆 June 23, 2014
Ok, they're down for maintenance but for a second I thought their site had really blown the stack 🙂 — Continue reading »
NBCnews.com's Ugly Redesign
📆 February 25, 2014
For many years MSNBC.com had been the first new site I would visit for news. Then the site became NBCnews.com, with MSNBC.com becoming who knows what. But I knew the day would come that the NBC folks would create a monstrosity and foist it on their readers in the name of uniformly supporting desktops and — Continue reading »
Wordpress 'page_option' Hack
📆 October 27, 2013
Wordpress is a great publishing product but its popularity is also its Achilles heel. It's notorious for being a favorite target of hackers and many have been successful in compromising plenty of installations out there, including this one. Having automated monitoring software is certainly a prudent way to stay on top of things, but in — Continue reading »
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