I found a series of articles that I wrote more than 10 years ago. But, amazingly enough, all of this information is still valid and true. It's a great primer on what you should, and should not do before launching any website, especially an e-commerce website. Before Any Code is Written ...

Some web hosting companies have now taken it to a new low: they are monetizing (making money) from your web site without your knowledge. Web hosts are now hijacking their customers' 404 error pages and putting up a slew of paid ads: advertisements, when clicked, make the company money. And ...

Since the United States Government has been giving out money recently and calling it a "bailout", many different industries have been stepping forward and trying to stake their claim. We have already seen a bailout in the financial industry, and we have recently seen the automotive industry go to Capital ...

  I usually do not make it a habit of pointing out badly implemented online promotional campaigns. However, in this case, I could not help but point out one of the worst demographic targeting that I have ever seen on the web. Hannah Montana tickets are being given away ...

Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it's happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn't resolve. If you are a Road Runner customer, ...

There is a lot going on this week and it is only Monday, January 21st 2007. I thought I would catch you up on some of the interesting, totally unrelated things, not in any order of importance. I considered covering each of these items today, but CNN Markets Domain Name ...

Every week I try to go through the blogosphere and see what everyone's talking about. This week I thought I'd take a look at the SEO (search engine optimization) blogs. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I recently turned off nofollow on this site. So, if you comment ...

Jeremy Liew, a venture capitalist with Lightspeed Partners, has a great post about usage numbers of social networks. Hat tip goes to Robert Scoble for mentioning it. Matt Cutts recently spoke at WordCamp2007. If you're interested, Stephanie Booth took notes. Matt Cutts talked about a few ideas for bloggers, including: - make ...

Want a free iPhone? Sign up to be a writer at Mahalo, Jason Calacanis' new search engine. The first 100 part time guides who reach 100 search results get a free iPhone from Mahalo. Go here to sign up. You get paid $10 to $15 for each search result that ...

Topix, a leading news community on the internet, is transitioning from a news aggregator to a news community and "top 20 news site". As a part of this transition, Topix.net has appointed Chris Tolles as Chief Executive Officer. Chris Tolles is a longtime marketing executive and a mamber of the founding ...