Archive Mar 8, 2005
Watching Microsoft from New York
If you work with Microsoft products on a regular basis, it’s a good idea to keep up with what they are working on. One woman keeps a critical eye on Redmond, watching for all the latest developments and aggregating them in one tidy location. Mary Jo Foley has been tracking Microsoft for 10 years, breaking [...]
FCUK Me!
While in NYC, Ponzi got me a skull cap from FCUK. Yes, I had to do a double-take the first time she said it to me, too. I've seen FCUK stores before, but I thought its name was just a cruel joke. Turns out, it's for real – and I've received three “for real” compliments [...]
From Texas Hold’em to Texas Tea – Meet the Oilman
It’s not every day you get to meet a spammer. While we didn’t actually spot a live one in the wild, Chris talked at length with a guy who used to post Viagra and Texas Hold’em links in blog comments across the Web. Todd “Oilman” Friesen has since cleaned up his act, instead employing years [...]
Dino Ironbody
Okay, we've obviously started leaking details about this year's Gnomedex. I've been asked about keynote presenters… but Wil Wheaton is probably too busy doing his CSI thing now. I heard about this killer new blogger named Dino Ironbody – has anybody ever met him in real life? I think he may make an excellent keynote [...]
Nofollow and Tags
According to one of the interviews we did at SES, nofollow isn't really going to work – largely because it targets dead sites. If once-living pages include the nofollow tag, eventually spammers might stop attacking all of us on the Web. Then, according to one of the panelists we saw, tagging is going to fall [...]
FTP Discount
A Gnomie by the name of Chester Tan sent this to me a few minutes ago: My first piano music album was launched in Singapore, and I'm already working on my next album! Anyway, here's another article for your purview: Evaluate CuteFTP Pro 6 and get 50% discount! I was using CuteFTP Professional 6 trial [...]
The Web Site Idea Generator
The world is completely incomplete without: A totally easy game creation software that revolutionizes text files in interdisciplinary economists. A composed geo-location service that slashdots character encoding in sexy novels. A RSS-enabled tv set that distributes celebrities in manga-style ideas. A smart self-modifying script that manages software in cheeky short-stories. A Wi-fi hack that manifests [...]
Sacremende
According to a recent report on Fox television, the city of Sacremende (California) doesn't exist. I beg to differ. I used to spend my summers in Sacremende as a child. It was a fine city, and not terribly expensive for middle class families. It's a Beach Resort, really. There were five championship golf courses, 13 [...]
Searching for Danny Sullivan
When you need someone with their finger on the pulse of the search engine business, Danny Sullivan always tops the list. He’s been covering the search engine business since 1995 when he released “A Webmaster’s Guide to Search Engines.” His site, SearchEngineWatch, is the definitive resource on the entire search engine space. Using all the [...]
