Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
RegisterFly: Hopefully you don’t use them
I published a post back in January about how inept I thought RegisterFly were, and now they have been de-accredited by ICANN.
I’ve only just read the full story at Wikipedia. Seems this 10-year-old business, with 2 million registered domains, was run by a pair of gay lovers who recently broke up, accusing each other spending […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Hosting & Domain Names by Rob
Monday, March 19th, 2007
Pirate Internet Radio not far off?
Now that the Copyright Royalty Board is changing the rules, most web radio stations will not be able to operate profitably, because the royalty fee will be on a “per song listened” basis rather than as a derivative of what the station earns.
My prediction is that there will be isolated instances of pirate stations broadcasting […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Newsworthy by Rob
Monday, March 12th, 2007
The Metlink Muddle
I use public transport in Melbourne. I regularly need to look up timetables. Each time I go to the official site - I can never remember if it is called MetlinkMelbourne or MelbourneMetlink - they have “improved the design and layout, and each time it is still overly complicated!
The latest version requires me to type […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, RANT by Rob
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Free Photoshop Online
The few companies that dare make their basic product free, but sell the best version of it, are doing very well. Companies like NetworkMagic, ZoneAlarm and AVG.
Following on from selling a reduced function version of Photoshop, Adobe are now planning to launch a free, online, ad-supported version of it. This a win for users, a […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Software by Rob
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Online-Offsite Storage / Great Resource
I call it IDE (I Do Everything), and others call it Flying Solo - running your own business without any staff. This is such a niche category, and like dating sites, appeals to the lost & lonely - so FlyingSolo.com.au exists.
Ultimately it is a weekly newsletter comprising of well-written, helpful (short) articles. Looking at a […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Services by Rob
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Ads on Mobile Phones
It will happen, it’s just a case of working out the best implementation…
Virgin Mobile UK have been showing ads in exchange for minutes of talking - that’s a good model. Other ideas fail because they rely on folk clicking on something, and we really don’t want to do any nore than is necessary on our […]
Comments Off - Posted in Big Business, Blog by Rob
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
World Vision - up to £32.50 per sale
That’s what you can earn from World Vision’s affiliate program via DGM UK.
Doesn’t sound quite right to me - paying lots of money to marketers for finding folk who will make donations. If World Vision are willing to pay me such a huge commission, who else are they bribing paying, and how much actually makes […]
Comments Off - Posted in Affiliate Programs, Blog by Rob
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Excellent Wireless Broadband Service on the Sunshine Coast
In stayed at Raffles in Mooloolaba, one of the smart accomodation providers that offers wireless broadband in their rooms. I was eager to get back to work when I arrived there (beaches don’t appeal to me), but I couldn’t get my laptop to connect…
…I phoned support, and within an hour a young bloke (the same […]
