Fascinating article that profiles super-entrepreneurs with egoistic tendencies:
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July 19, 2008 – 5:49 am
Recession: Different Strokes for Different Folks
June 12, 2008 – 12:22 pm
I wake up each morning to confront the reality of world economy. In the last few months, the newspapers I subscribe to, scream: “Industrial Output Falls”, “Unemployment Rate Set To Rise”, “XYZ files for bankruptcy”, “Oil Prices Soaring: Crosses $$$/barrel”, “XYZ Industry Records Negative Growth”, “Mortgage Crisis Worsens: Realty Sinks”, “GDP Growth Rate Falls”, “Stock Market Falls NNN Points”, “Prices Soaring: Inflation Sets In”
My suspicion is that your newspaper is delivering the same news as well, and you might already know :- We are supposed to be in a US-led Global Recession.
“A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. A recession begins just after the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends as the economy reaches its trough.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession
The business world is quite concerned about the current state of the economy, and there is little hope that things will turn around anytime soon.
The million dollar question(s), investors are asking: Is there a business/asset that has been left untouched by recession? Is there an industry that is thriving in these times? Is there a lucrative investment somewhere in sight?
I think I know one: Domain Names Read More
Yahoo! over the years…
February 4, 2008 – 8:42 am
With Microsoft putting in a monstrous bid of $44 billion to acquire Yahoo!, its seems to be the beginning of the end. The end of an era of independent thought and control. Yahoo! in its prime helped define the internet landscape… today its just another Search company struggling for market-share and some say, SURVIVAL.
Its not as-if nobody saw it coming. Yahoo! made just too many mistakes over the years, tried to do too many things and failed at most. Music, Maps, Video, Auctions, Classifieds, Social Networking… the list goes on. Ironically, they did not improve at what they were known for: SEARCH and Navigation. And guess what… Google cleaned them up.
I cant help but feel nostalgic about my experiences at Yahoo.com (way back in 1998)
Somebody introduced me to this website which helped me to navigate the web to find the information I was looking for (in my case: Alicia Silverstone’s Pictures) and the simplicity of the whole exercise was truly amazing! I’d promised myself that this was going to be my browser’s default homepage for as long as a live… hell I broke that promise 2 years later! (Blame that darn “Do No Evil” Company)
Here is a partial screenshot of Yahoo! in 1998:
Those were the days!
You Got Lucky. Now What?
January 31, 2008 – 11:05 am
In arguably the most insightful article in the domain world, so far this year, Sahir Sarid spells out his view on the state of affairs in the “domain world” and suggests a way forward. Here is the link:
http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/30/you-got-lucky-now-what/
Very well put, Sahar…
How to do PayPal “Mass Pay” and reduce transaction fees
January 31, 2008 – 10:40 am
“Mass Pay” can be done only from a Premier/Business account, not from Personal accounts. Paypal does not charge incoming payments from balance to private accounts, so if you pay someone with private account just send normal payment, its free.
Mass Payment
According to PayPal’s mass pay instructions, you are supposed to create an Excel file with the payment information and save the file as a text file with tab separated values. I believe there is a much easier way to do it:
I. Open up notepad (or any text/ascii editor)
II. Type the following information, separated by tabs (use tab key, not spaces):
An example of a payment text file:
payment@xyz.com 999 USD
This textfile will, when uploaded to PayPal, process a payment of $999 US Dollars to the PayPal address payment@xyz.com
Save the textfile as anything you’d like, just try to remember where you saved it for later.
III. Log in to your PayPal account the usual way, but instead of sending a payment the regular way, look for the small link on the bottom of your screen that says “Mass Pay”. Found it? Good, now click it.
IV. You are now one step away from doing a mass payment. Browse to find the text file you just created in notepad and upload it to PayPal as directed. Type in the e-mail address you want the receipt to be sent to and perform the payment by clicking the button.