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Meebo has finally started to monetize its home page.
Critic's Realm, Design, E-Review, Techie, Useful Sites June 29th, 2009
Meebo home page now featuring a background ad.
Meebo has finally started to monetize its home page. I like the design. Unlike many monetized backgrounds on popular web sites, their is more integrated, in style, with the content on the page. Good job.
At this time the add is for the Toyota Prius – 3rd generation.
Meebo does have some other products and services to complement its main function – integrating various instant messenger networks and protocols on the same web site. My favorite of their products is the Meebo notifier.
The Meebo notifier is a small app that sits in your system tray…
What is the point behind a URL shortening service? Why are there so many?
Techie, Useful Sites April 22nd, 2009
What is the point behind a URL shortening service? In essence, why is everyone using them and why are there so many? These were questions asked on TechCrunch, yesterday, by Ronald Tin, but not in so many words. My reply to him was as follow:
Ronald, the point of a URL shortening service is to have a short domain and URL, but that’s beside the point. The real reason behind URL shortening is to have an easy to remember or pass along URL. Instead of having – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/19/now-even-the-new-york-times-is-entering-the-url-shortening-arena-kinda/#comment-2708504 – which you will never remember, or care to do so, you have http://tcrn.ch/Lk. Much easier…
Live From TechCrunch50 Con 2008
Techie, Useful Sites, video September 8th, 2008
The TechCrunch50 conference is going on this week. Very Exciting. You can watch the live stream from the conference, thanks to Ustream.TV, below.
BTW, TechCrunch50 is 52 this year. Two extra companies, which is good. The more the better.
Waste Management – You are doing it wrong!
Around the World, Critic's Realm, Useful Sites June 24th, 2008
My house is serviced by Waste Management. A company, supposedly, on the forefront of thinking green and working to recycle and minimize pollution. Well, I can tell you guys that you are doing it wrong! I don’t know if this is standard procedure, but I for sure know that other companies, which offer recycling, don’t do it that way.
Here is my problem with them. WM asks its customers to separate recyclables from their garbage into different containers, something that is necessary to make recycling easier. But when they come to pic up my garbage and recyclables, they are both dumped…
Helicopter birthday cake
Today I learned, Useful Sites, video April 24th, 2008
Now that’s a cool birthday cake. A cake shaped like a helicopter with a functioning rotor. Sweeet!!!!
You can find the instruction on how to make your own helicopter birthday cake here, on Instructables, an awesome do-it-yourself site.
Domain Record Info
Legacy, Techie, Useful Sites March 25th, 2008
I wanted a way to quickly view the record information on a domain, but I did not want anyone tracking domains I look up. Or like some bad registrars, have any possible domain I look up end up as registered thanks to the ICANN grace period and overpriced registrars trying to extort money before selling the domain.
So, I ended up searching for possible WhoIs scripts and how one could query the domain record information and ended up coming across the whois.php script, which is currently utilized on Domain Record Info. Also accessed via WhoIsMesh.com and DomaIndex.Info.
There are few other options/functions I would…
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