Ditching GoDaddy for Hover

After using GoDaddy for about 4 years, I ditched them and switched all my domains to Hover. Why? GoDaddy is the Hooters of the domain registrar world. Their self-controversial “too hot for TV” ads are a pathetic attempt to stand out in the competitive domain registrations space.…

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Don't Be a Content Punk

I was dumb. There was once a thriving forum on zKorean. In an attempt to make some money from the heavy forum traffic I announced I would charge members a monthly charge to use it. This was met with protest, as many people had contributed a lot of time helping others on the forum. I analyzed this…

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What I've Been Up To: Saving Advertising

So you’ve likely noticed I haven’t posted in quite a while. Blogging is hard work, and takes a ridiculous amount of time to write even a short, quality post. I’ll be back to posting soon, but wanted to share what I’ve been so busy with. Several months ago, I joined a small…

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When your Site is in a Bad Neighborhood

When I first moved from a shared host to a dedicated server, and had my sites set up to send email (to customers), I immediately received rejections from Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and many other email servers (this was before there was Gmail). The rejections all shared the same reason. The IP block my…

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Publish your Email the Right Way

You may not be aware that placing your email address on your “contact us” page is a sure-fire way to get yourself truckloads of spam. As we speak, there are bots traversing the web, looking for email addresses that have been published publicly on web pages. These email addresses (and…

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What the Fax?

In this day and age, faxes are still surprisingly widely used. Should you have a fax machine to run your business? Not necessarily. I’ve got the solution to all your faxing needs and it’s not expensive. The complete fax solution is a combination of 3 things: eFax, a scanner, and your…

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Rasmus Lerdorf joins Earndit as Advisor

On June 30th, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the PHP programming language, joined Earndit as advisor. You may remember my interview with Earndit back on April 7th. The free service tracks members’ exercise (jogs, runs, walking) and offers rewards in the form of discounts on great…

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