Software, Digital Content, Geopolitics, Economics & More from of a Libertarian Serial Expat and Entrepreneur
So Renamed Microsoft adCenter Officially Launches (drumroll). Well, let’s give it a ride then. “Microsoft adCenter does not currently support the web browser you are using. Please sign in using Internet Explorer 6+.” Yeah right, Firefox on WinXP, talk about obscure. I kid you not, to be able to use their web application, a distant [...]
I’m trying to extend our ad reach for TaxPrinter now that we’ve found some profitable keywords, so we’ve just opened a Yahoo Search Marketing account. Well, I’ll tell you what, you’ve got to be seriously motivated to spend money there. First, Yahoo is in denial that they’re the follower to the market leader. Take a [...]
In: web services
15 Mar 2006Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet: "Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to [...]
In: search engines
15 Mar 2006I can only describe my attempts at improving our performance with Adsense as intensely frustrating. First there was the poor, canned customer support. The incomplete reporting (want to track ad channel performance over time? Tough luck, gotta buy third-party software). The spammy gateway advertisers with absolutely no content on their site (automated Adwords/Adsense arbitrage would [...]
Why, now that all these topics that I posted feverishly about for years are making front page news, am I almost mute? Jeffrey Zeldman perfectly captures everything that got me sick of the whole web 2.0 noise explosion. I’m busy building our own businesses and I hardly even keep up with what’s new. Oh wait, [...]
Please welcome TaxPrinter.com, another site I created with Tig, this one totally different from what we usually do. Tig came up with the idea after he needed to address one of his administrative needs and couldn’t find a ready answer. The service is pretty basic: if you lost your old tax software but need to [...]
Excuse the lack of posts as of lately but I’m working on two new sites to be launched within a couple of weeks or so (one we’ve been planning to do for months and directly in line with what we’ve been doing for a while, the other a totally new experiment). Here’s a question for [...]
I'm CEO of an online trade publishing firm in the marketing and defense verticals. We try to make news and data digestible and useful in an environment that is more noisy each day. This personal blog mixes my thoughts and interests on politics, business, software, and more, based on my business and personal experiences. Over the years I have posted items that turned out spectacularly wrong, and a few posts that stood the test of times better. Personal views only.