John Chow, root of all evil, is holding a contest to win a Nintendo Wii. Even though I never win anything, I am entering the competition. The competition is sponsored by 1234pens.com, online retailer of promotional pens and more details can be found here. It will be interesting to see how this content boosts his ranking for [...]
Entries from March 2007
Root of all Evil
March 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Blogs
Moniker sells domains for US$4.3 million
March 9th, 2007 · No Comments
According to a post at domainnamewire, moniker sold domains at an auction totalling US$4.3 million. Families.com was the highest selling domain at US$650,000. Greeting.com sold for US$350,00 although I think greetings.com would be worth more. The domain that struck me as being a bargain was et.com at $225,000. Apart from being short for extra terrestrial [...]
Tags: Domains
Interesting snippets on successful start-ups
March 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments
This post at Guy Kawasaki’s blog contains some interesting comments by some very successful internet/technology start-ups. The most interesting one is Paul Graham from via web.
On raising money: “The advice I would give is to avoid it. I would say spend as little as you can because every dollar of the investors’ money you get will [...]
Tags: General
Auctionads.com
March 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Techcrunch had the scoop on the launch of AuctionAds.com the new ebay auction banner ad program which appears to be a joint venture between Jeremy Schoemaker (shoemoney) and MediaWhiz.com. The site is very basic, the faq page contains a few of the key details on the program. Apparently initially they are offering 100% of the ebay [...]
Tags: Affiliate Programs
Johnchow.com record february income - $7,011.05
March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Looks like John Chow has done it again and outdone himself to beat last months blogging income of US$3,440.66. For the month of february, the shortest month of the year, he has managed to double his previous months income, to a record $7,011.05 which is not bad for a blog. I am sure once he [...]
Tags: Blogs
New look xe.com design
March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Looks like one of the sites that I use, almost on a daily basis, when buying new sites/domains, etc just had a major facelift. xe.com is without a doubt one of the best currency conversions sites on the internet. With an alexa rank of 747 and a great two letter .com domain, it must be worth [...]
Tags: Web Design