Ramblings
The Five Million Dollar View Yesterday, I took the family to check out the homes at Whitby Estates in West Vancouver. Whitby Estates is one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in all of Canada. The Estates offers dramatic ocean and city views from Mount Baker to Vancouver Island. Once you check out the views, you’ll understand why the average home […]
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Ramblings The Net
Here are the newest winners of the RSS by Email contest. The prizes up for grabs were two books (The Search and Wikinomics) by Piggy Bank Pie, a $144 webhosting package from Tribune Hosting, a free review by CashQuests, and two copies of An American Hedge Fund. $144 Hosting Package Winner Maki Eduardo – gmail Review from CashQuests mike – […]
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The Net
This post was guest blogged by Jamie Harrop, a Web Entrepreneur and expert in a variety of Web authoring areas. He writes, records video blogs and conducts text and video interviews with other entrepreneurs. Do you ever wonder what the Google War Room, the G’Plex that is, is like on a week like this? We all know Google has the […]
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Ramblings The Net Videos
Google PageRank Algorithm Leaked It seems everyone is still tied up in a knot over the recent Google PageRank update. Well, it seems a trusted source inside the Google headquarters has leaked part of the PageRank algorithm that Google used to to slapped a bunch of blogs this week. A big thanks to BlogStorm.com for the heads up on this […]
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Wordpress
For those who never read the news headlines in your Dashboard, WordPress has released Version 2.3.1. All those who didn’t upgrade when WordPress released 2.3, because of bugs that always accompany a new series release, can now upgrade with more piece of mind. This upgrade includes a security fix so anyone running WordPress 2.3 must upgrade. 2.3.1 fixes over twenty […]
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Business The Net
While the Facebook Developer Garage was mostly filled with geeks who couldn’t make money online if their life depended on it, there was a presentation from my buddy Jason Bailey of Millnic Media (they gave me the MS Zune that nobody wants). Unfortunately, we weren’t able to catch Jason’s speech because it was after the break and we had already […]
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Ramblings The Net
Thanks to ComicTan for making the cartoon. Noticed that Shoe has to use both hands to try and grab a new reader? 🙂 With just five days to go in the John Chow Vs. Shoemoney RSS competition, I lead the Shoe by 2,539 readers. As a matter of fact, I now have more total RSS readers than Shoemoney. Unless Shoe […]
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The Net
BlogRush has finished cleaning their network of undesirable blogs and I’ve lost over 200 blogs in my network alone. We just completed our Quality Control audit. You will now notice that all non-English, spam, and low quality blogs (or others that didn’t meet all of our guidelines) are GONE from appearing in your widget. We removed over 10,000 blogs from […]
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