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Archives for October 2007

The Man in the Arena

by Jeff Hester · Oct 12, 2007

Tech investor Yossi Vardi spoke recently at TechCrunch40. Vardi is perhaps best known for being the original investor in instant messaging pioneer ICQ. Michael Arrington describes Yossi as someone who invests in people, not business plans. To help make his point and establish his philosophy for investment, Vardi quoted Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech at the […]

Filed Under: Business, Good things, Quotes, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Roosevelt quote

Working with Joomla for BigBlueBargains

by Jeff Hester · Oct 12, 2007

A number of sites on the BigBlueNetwork are in desperate need of some tender love, or at the very least, an updated look with fresh content. One such site is BigBlueBargains. The site was previously driven primarily by affiliation with MyCoupons, but most of the links have gone dead. And the site itself looks like […]

Filed Under: Projects Tagged With: BigBlueBargains, CMS, Joomla

Google Mishandles Urchin

by Jeff Hester · Oct 11, 2007

Ars Technica has a great article on how Google dropped the ball with their 2005 acquisition of Urchin — a web analytics company based in San Diego. Urchin provides web site administrators with the ability to analyse their log files and understand how people use their web site. To Google’s credit, they took some of […]

Filed Under: Business, FUBAR

Radiohead gives the finger to the big record labels

by Jeff Hester · Oct 10, 2007

I’ve been a fan of the band Radiohead since discovering their 1997 release OK Computer. Their music treads territory well off the beaten path. And while I don’t like all their music, I admire their spirit. Now the band has done it again, but this time upending the music business. The band has bypassed not only the big […]

Filed Under: Business, Good things

WordPress 2.3 Upgrade

by Jeff Hester · Oct 2, 2007

I’ve been having weird problems with the WordPress admin console. I didn’t get they nifty little icon bar for TinyMCE when composing a post. When I bulk moderated comments, only the first change would actually be applied (the other changes remained in the moderation queue). Things just didn’t always work the way I expected them […]

Filed Under: FUBAR

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