Typo squatting can be quite a lucrative business. Lucrative that is until you lose your domains via a WIPO ruling. One squatter had three typos of amazon.com: amazoh.com, qmqzon.com and smszon.com As is often the case with such practices the registrant had already been subject to a number of previous WIPO hearings... Don't they ever learn? Of course the question I should be … [Read more...] about Typo Squatters Lose
How Not To Do PR
PR is probably a combination of black art, science and luck. However no matter how good your PR machine is it can all fall apart at the seams if your representatives don't know how to handle themselves in public If you take the now infamous web 2.0 fiasco as an example to illustrate this. One of O'Reilly's related companies hold a mark of some kind. It's in their interest to … [Read more...] about How Not To Do PR
Why You Should Buy a Mac (?)
Apple's marketing department sends me email once every week or so.. Today they're trying to persuade me to swap my PC for a Mac: "Frustrated with your PC? Time for a Mac." Ok. Convince me! The Apple marketing department aren't that bright... or maybe they're on a different wavelength to the rest of us: Ok. The guy on the left looks a bit boring, but the guy on the right looks … [Read more...] about Why You Should Buy a Mac (?)
Adsense Video Ads
Whilst browsing Irish ISP Test this afternoon I saw a video ad for Motorola. I wasn't sure what I'd expected to see, but it definitely caught my attention. … [Read more...] about Adsense Video Ads
Best Applications For Nokia 9300i?
Which applications would people recommend for my new toy? I've been trying to find useful Symbian applications for the last couple of days, but most of the sites I've come across don't cater for my phone model, so I haven't been able to do much with it (though I will be posting a detailed review of what I have managed later this weekend :) ) … [Read more...] about Best Applications For Nokia 9300i?