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Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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Did You Know?

April 2, 2009

Incredibly exciting, inspiring, and motivational video. 50% of the credit goes to the music and the “style” of presentation.

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Marc Andreesen on Video, iPhone, FaceBook and Google

February 22, 2009

Excellent interview by Charlie Rose.
And the discussion about monetizing FaceBook is very interesting.
And a cool thing about Google Video (not to be confused with YouTube) is that you get a link right on the page, to download the video (iPod/iPhone friendly). So load up for offline viewing at the gym or on the train!
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YouTube records more searches than Yahoo!

January 21, 2009

Last week, I searched YouTube (not Google) for how to “change wiper blades“, and watching a couple of the videos helped me change the wiper blades on my car in under 2 minutes (something I had been putting off for almost a year!)
Here is an interesting article about the shift in the way people are [...]

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My Date With Seth Godin

October 7, 2008

Ok, I was being dramatic. Plus I’m straight (and I think Seth is too).
Last evening, I was fortunate to be a part of a private group that participated in Seth presentation for his new book, “Tribes” .
The presentation was “remarkable!”, as Seth would’ve said himself.
Filled with extraordinary images, and almost no text, Seth [...]

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Do We Really Need Yet Another Search Engine?

September 2, 2008

We all know what turned out to be the answer to that question.
So, here we go again: Do We Really Need Yet Another Browser?
If it’s coming from Google, then it’s definitely worth checking out.
It sends my brain tingling when I read this:
Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind [...]

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Ubiquity: Mozilla’s Mother Of All Mashups

August 27, 2008

If you don’t know what a “Mashup” is, fret not.
You’re now going to witness one of the greatest “mashup” tools ever developed…

Full story: Introducing Ubiquity

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Membership Sites: Not Easy To Monetize. Proof? NY Times

September 25, 2007

In this era of the open web, it is hard to monetize information that you can easily get elsewhere.
Want to read about what’s going on with the presence of Iranian dictator Ahmedinajad in NY City? Just Google-News it up (yes, that’s different from Googling it up), and you’ll get all the latest relevant news stories [...]

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Animoto.com: Making your pictures come alive on video

September 15, 2007

I found this amazing site yesterday through one of the feeds on LinkOverLoad.com. Awesome video coming right up…
Animoto basically turns your pictures into a fantastic MTV-style video, with some great soundtracks available on their site for free, or you can use your own audio – with your pictures almost flashing in rhythm to the beats [...]

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How Much Money Can You Make From Your Blog?

August 6, 2007

Maybe quite a lot, and mostly not a lot.
“Huh?”, you say?
If you look at this “top bloggers” list, you may end up buying into the fantasy that blogging will make you big bucks.
Not every blog will make that kind of money. Actually, it would even be fair say, that less than a fraction (less than [...]

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How To Use Blog-And-Bookmark To Send Your Traffic Through The Roof

July 11, 2007

You know what is Blog-And-Ping. Blog-And-Bookmark is quite similar.
You first blog about something (hopefully) interesting, then once your blog’s ping service has done its work on the back-end pinging all of the various web sites and your post is live, then you go to work as follows.
Use a one-to-many social bookmarking tool like AddMe.com or [...]

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Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

April 14, 2007

Google came to prominence with a “Hate Images, Love Text” campaign. Slowly but steadily, they ventured into “banner” advertising, then “video” advertising, then affiliate programs, and now they have purchased one of the biggest “traditional” online advertisement networks, DoubleClick.
Their huge dependence on their “advertising” model is both exciting and scary at the same time.

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What is Web2.0?

February 12, 2007

The machine is us…
Digital Text is no longer just linking information…
HyperText is no longer just linking information…
The Web is no longer just linking information…
The Web is linking people….

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The Net’s Oldest Domains

February 6, 2007

Check out the oldest domains ever registered.

Ranking  
Date
Domain Name

1.  
15-Mar-1985
SYMBOLICS.COM

7.  
09-Jan-1986
XEROX.COM

9.  
03-Mar-1986
HP.COM

11  
19-Mar-1986
IBM.COM

11  
19-Mar-1986
SUN.COM

13  
25-Mar-1986
INTEL.COM

20  
05-Aug-1986
BELL-ATL.COM

20  
05-Aug-1986
GE.COM

42  
17-Nov-1986
ADOBE.COM

42  
17-Nov-1986
AMD.COM

42  
11-Dec-1986
3COM.COM

64.  
19-Feb-1987
APPLE.COM

67.  
04-Apr-1987
PHILIPS.COM

73  
14-May-1987
CISCO.COM

81  
27-Jul-1987
DUPONT.COM

 
It’s very easy to see the long-term big guns here. See if you recognize the others.
Here’s the full list.
Ravi Jayagopal / CheapDomains.ws

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