Archive for the 'internet' Category
GoDaddy.com Crashes My Firefox 3 Every Time I Try to Register a Domain
Monday, June 30th, 2008I tried GoDaddy once years ago and absolutely hated it. But today I decided I wanted to register a .tv domain today and it seemed that GoDaddy had the most reasonable rate (advertised at $15.99). But every time I click “proceed to check out” Firefox bugs out. Anyone else have this problem? The conspiracy theorist [...]
How to Opt-Out of Appearing in Facebook Ads
Thursday, June 26th, 2008A couple months ago I was put off after seeing a friend in a sidebar ad on Facebook and realizing that I likely appeared on the sidebar of my friend’s Facebooks without my knowing.
At left, you’ll see Tom Lewis aka TomDog purporting to endorse a Facebook App. Sure, he probably is a “fan” of the [...]
How Much is McCain Paying to Advertise on This Blog? Will it Be Easy to Block Such Ads?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I had to chuckle this morning when I revisited a year-old post about Lara Logan (it’s been receiving traffic lately in the aftermath of her appearance last week on The Daily Show) and found this John McCain for President Google image ad at the bottom of the page:
SearchEngineWatch points to a couple interviews in which [...]
Twitter vs Friendfeed vs Plurk
Friday, June 20th, 2008Inspired by this Google Trends chart of Twitter v. Friendfeed posted by Ole Begemann I threw the new, horizontally dynamic visual timeline updating comment threading microblogging platform Plurk into the mix.
I tried Plurk a couple weeks back for a day. Returned on the following two days and have not returned since. There are way too [...]
