What is Rouxbe.com? “Rouxbe is for those who love food, love cooking, and have a passion to try new things in the kitchen. With Rouxbe, you learn to prepare delicious recipes with our instructional cooking videos in the convenience of your own home. Our “how-to” video recipes, complete with voice-over instruction from professional chefs, take […]
Amazon’s 30 Day Price Guarantee
According to this article at Slate, Amazon.com quietly offers a 30-day price guarantee on any purchase made from Amazon.com. If the price drops on any item within 30 days of your purchase, you can request a refund on the difference by calling the super-secret Amazon Customer Service phone number – 1-800-201-7575, extension 7. More: Consumerist […]
Spam Gains Skills in 2006 Looks To Grow Even More in 2007
MessageLabs released their annual MessageLabs Intelligence Report which details their analysis of email threats (spam, phishing, virus) in 2006 and trends to watch in 2007. The report indicates that the annual average spam rate for 2006 was 86.2% with 80% of all spam coming from Botnets (autonomous systems) and 63.4% of all spam cam from […]
A Typical Conversation In Selling Aftermarket Domain Names
I buy and sell domains for fun and profit. I stay away from trademark issues and intentional cybersquatting by focusing on rather generic names that may find a run in popular culture or unique names that could be highly brandable. From a couple of days ago, a typical conversation on potential buyers approaching me with […]
Free Skype Out ends December 31, 2006
Skype, the Ebay-owned voice over IP (VOIP) company recently announced some changes to their SkypeOut offering. SkypeOut allows you to place phone calls from any computer with broadband access to any phone in the US and Canada (with per-minute fees for international calls) Previously, Skype had been offering SkypeOut free for the last six months […]
WordPress Blogs and Google’s Supplemental Index
It seems that WordPress-based blogs have a tendency to be dropped into Google’s Supplemental Index pretty quickly. The general consensus is that this is due to the duplication of content present within WordPress. A typical installation will generate a minimum of five instances of a post – more if the post is identified in multiple […]