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Every Year, Google sends some gifts to their clients and publishers for their hard work. This year Google is doing something different, and very cool. Much better than a little USB drive with Google printed on it or something like that… this year they’ve donated $20,000,000 to various charites around the world. See more here:
http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/
December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
As we look back at this recession, we (at least I) hope to see encouraging Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales – indicators that we are passed the recession and are on a solid road to recovery.
Online sales reports have been in, and we are seeing an 11% rise in sales from last year [...]
November 30th, 2009 | Posted in Economy, Internet Stuff, News | No Comments
Looks like Windows 7 has single-handedly surpasses Mac OS X market share.. and yes, that’s ALL Max OS X versions. Seeing as Microsoft Windows does have over 92% of all market share this is of course going to be an inevitable trend, but Microsoft’s overall market share has also increased this month, which means that [...]
November 24th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff, Mac Stuff | No Comments
I’ve noticed this happened to a lot of people.. while I don’t really care about Technorati enough to make a fuss (I own 5 blogs and they have all been removed), but its unnerving to see this happening, especially to all the blogs out there that play the linking game to try and work their [...]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
This is hilarious! I’ve been an on and off follower of Dick’s blog MenAreBetterThanWomen.com… And this guy is awesome. I might not totally agree with what he says, but this guy does a fantastic job of marketing himself and obviously got himself a lot of exposure being on Dr. Phil.
I love the last bit of [...]
October 11th, 2009 | Posted in Funny Youtube Videos, Internet Stuff | No Comments
This video was taken by a passenger on a chinatown bus in San Francisco or something… it is hilarious!!! Crazy how those people go all kung fu and shit on these things:
October 8th, 2009 | Posted in Funny Youtube Videos, Internet Stuff | No Comments
Holy crap Street View is cool.. never thought much of it until I started working in the property and development industry, and now that its come to Canada, I am seriously impressed. This is a very useful tool for people in my industry, and many people may complain about privacy, etc. They have a point [...]
October 7th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff, Vancouver Stuff | No Comments
This morning I went to access my paypal, and noticed when I visited paypal.com, I got a “page could not be found” error. That’s a bit weird… a big huge site like Paypal, which carries tons of secure data and has a lot of people that need to use it ASAP, is rarely down. So [...]
September 11th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
The legacy is over… The huge torrent site known as The Pirate Bay has been shut down on and off over the day as their largest ISP was required to pull the plug on the webserving or face a large fine. The Pirate Bay is negotiating with companies to acquire licenses to distribute software legally, [...]
August 24th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments
Twitter, the latest internet microblogging Phenom, continues its problems this morning with outages from a denial of service attack which has kept the website out of comission on and off since 6am Pacific Time.
As many have said before me.. if Twitter intends to continue to be a big player in this game, they will [...]
August 6th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Stuff | No Comments