Ramblings The Net

Who Are All You People?

September was a break out month for John Chow dot Com. Thanks to the seemingly impossible task of pulling off six Diggs in one week, I managed to expose the blog to a very large number of new users. And I’m glad to say that quite a few has decided to bookmarked the blog, subscribe to the RSS or become […]

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Ramblings

How Rich Are You?

Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in the world and we wonder what it would be like to have that kind of cash. However, where would you sit on one of those lists? Here is your chance to find out. The Global Rich List will tell you where you rank among the world’s population. […]

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The Net

Only A Moron Would Buy YouTube

In a yesterday’s story by Reuters, Dot Com Billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said only a “moron” would buy YouTube. Cuban explains that YouTube will be no more because it will be sued into oblivion. “They are just breaking the law,” Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet […]

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Investing

Showing MasterCard Who The Real Master Is

If you are a credit card user, you have no doubt received phone calls from your Visa or MasterCard providers offering promotional low interest balance transfers or lines of credit. In almost all cases, these offers are nothing more than a sucker bet to make you fall into the credit card trap. They will dangle the low interest carrot in […]

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Videos

Male Restroom Etiquette

All men of the world can find common ground in these simple rules of “evacuation” etiquette. High Quality DIVX Version available from Z-Studios. Made with The Sims 2, Sim City 4, and some other tools. Based on the Everything2.com write-ups on this topic, published in 2000.

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The Net

Google Page Rank Update

It looks like Google is doing another round of PageRank updates. A check of my blog at Live PageRank shows I’m doubling my PageRank from a PR2 to PR4. Right now 21 data center has me at the new PageRank. This is lower than the PR5 that the Google PageRank Prediction tool (below) predicted but that’s better than staying at […]

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Ramblings The Net

The John Chow Interview

If you want to find out a little bit more about me than what I post on this blog then you can head on over to Basement Guru. The 20 questions interview they did with me is now live. Charl Norman runs BasementGuru and features established, young, and upcoming webmasters that have achieved great heights in their respective fields. Besides […]

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The Net

Why Alexa Is Worthless

Alexa is a tool that many webmasters and advertisers used to gauge the size of a website. The Alexa ranking is based on a three month running average. The number shown is where a site ranks on the internet. For example, The TechZone has a ranking of 23,005. This mean the site is the 23,005th biggest on the Internet. Out […]

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