chrisg.org — Chris Garrett's Personal Blog

Scam?

August 6, 2004

Sorry if this has already been posted – is this a scam? http://www.juiceboosted.com/ I don’t see how this could technically work but if they are using normal phone lines then they will get the usage kick back that freeserve et al get which should add up to some. Thing is they say it is a [...]

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Pagerank, text ads and comments

June 15, 2004

http://www.ASPAlliance.com now allows you to comment on articles – great stuff. Constructive feedback is always beneficial to authors, particularly people writing technical articles. Only problem is we will need to dilute the utility of this feature because of gits who will abuse it. What am I talking about? Well, there is a growing trend in the [...]

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ROI

June 2, 2004

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2004/05/eureka.html So Seth Godin coined the term “landing pages”? Cool. In this blog he talks about increasing the effectiveness of landing pages. I agree how critical it is. I find marketeers often focus on the initial ad and hope for the best with the landing page. It’s amazing how even the smallest tweak can make [...]

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Google on software

May 25, 2004

http://www.google.com/corporate/software_principles.html Google is taking a stand on gitware, well done to them. I would like to see Microsoft back them in this – Google and MS united on the issue will get lots of attention, maybe enough to get some legistlation. Looking at family and friends computers the problem is absolutely friggin enormous. My wife [...]

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I thought I had this feeling of dejavu before ;O)

May 6, 2004

I was just telling someone how I happened across ecademy and thought I recalled a version of ecademy that was all about ecommerce with a diagram that looked like the cheese thingy from trivial persuit. Well, I just *had* to take a trip in the wayback machine How things change, eh? In a way though, [...]

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Ecademy a waste of cash?

May 1, 2004

There seems to be a mood once in a while around here where people see “get X people in your network and earn Y” sort of statements and ask “where is mine?”. I am not the worlds best networker (far from it, it goes completely against my personality type – too shy in person or [...]

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Community flames

April 21, 2004

Good blog here on community http://weblogs.asp.net/betsya/archive/2004/04/19/116430.aspx I think although flaming really hurts when you are starting out in this wild world web, it doesn’t kill you and does actually make you stronger. Some flames are simple “Hey look at me” and kinda text message equivelant of pulling wings off flys and beating the small kid [...]

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Hurrah for Paypal!

April 21, 2004

You may recall I was having a little difficulty with my web host (http://weblogs.asp.net/cgarrett/archive/2004/04/10/110796.aspx), well they finally came through with my affiliate cash this morning via Paypal. They are back in my good books (they really are a good host and at $10 a month including asp.net 1.1 AND sql server the best value for [...]

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Amazon + Google = new search engine

April 15, 2004

http://a9.com/ Check it out .. should shake things up a little in searchworld It’s by Amazon, using Google technology but also contains the Alexa “site info” so tells you information about the site and how many inbound links are pointing to it and other interesting stuff

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