I traded websites for years at the SitePoint Marketplace and have continued to use their new site Flippa once they moved most of their services there. It remains the best place available to buy and sell websites. I’ve found it really difficult to sell domains there though you can sell …
Yesterday I mentioned my intention of getting a new computer. I really wanted to get the Apple iMac 27″ with i7 processor but was put off by reports of flickering and my the 3-4 weeks to ship the machine. I looked at lots of different setups in the meantime including …
The other day I sold BloggingTips.com, one of my main sites and one which I have founded close to 3 years ago. I listed the site for just before Christmas though the auction only ended at the start of this week. I was happy with the sale. Not only did …
It’s no surprise to many of you that companies are incredibly sneaky with what they put in their terms and conditions. They commonly advertise something for free and then put a small asterisk (*) at the end. The asterisk refers to a note at the bottom of the page which …
I read today that Jon Fitch has been dropped from the UFC because of his refusal to give up his name and likeness rights for a lifetime. From GameSpot : Thanks to a reported dispute over an upcoming THQ game, a group of Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters are about to …
Google reported the other day that their servers have now indexed over 1,000,000,000,000 URL’s. Compare this with 26 million pages when they launched in 1998 and one billion in 2000. It’s a pretty good estimate on how much the web has grown in the last 10 years. I see no …
Yesterday, JKOnTheRun (great site!) reported that MobiTV is trying to shut down HowardForums because of links to copyrighted material being posted on the forum. Basically MobiTv does not protect their content and instead relies on it’s members not posting the url elsewhere…..which is clearly a very flawed assumption. Someone posted …
A few days ago I wrote about my first experience with Secure Sockets Layer certificates. After a brief search on the net I chose Instant SSL. As I explained the other day, since we don’t have our PO box set up yet and since we are still operating from home …
Me and a friend have been on the lookout for a good domain name recently to start an online shop. The topic of trademarking came up because we found so many domains for sale which were using copyrighted names (this was particuarly bad with gambling related names). I recalled the …