Whew – who knew Argentina was so big and had so much to offer! In the last month I was in: Colonia – the only UNESCO site in Uruguay, and very cute settler town on the beach Peninsula Valdes – there to see whales and elephant seals (the south-right whales literally come upto your boat [...]
I just did a quick post at Domain Name News on how none of the ‘top’ Canadian startups actually use a .ca domain (or even an expensive ‘generic’ domain). And ooh looky, iBegin clocks in at #6 according to ComScore.
Greg Sterling loves coupons (or at least loves to talk about them ). Many other analysts and writers in the local space also talk about coupons a lot. Not to be snobbish, but I’ve never really cared for coupons. Yeah I will use one occasionally, but rarely do I go hunting and looking out for [...]
I started dabbling in websites way back in 1997, but the first one to make me over four figures was a topsites. And at 18, that catches your attention. Anyhoo – one of my topsites (which I sold for a quarter million … to help jumpstart iBegin) was doing roughly 100,000 unique visitors when I [...]
DDL:08 was a good experience for us – it was the first time we ever had a booth (though we have sponsored other events), and it was a good experience (more on that later). Right now though I want to point out to a bonafide ass. Part of our sponsorship was us sponsoring a Cyber [...]
Just some anecdotal evidence. We released a site some three years ago. It sat on our oldest server for the first 18 months, and it didn’t do so well in the search engines. Did around 8000 pageviews a day, with revenue at a partly $25-35 a day. Nothing impressive. Then when we finally got our [...]
Its taken me roughly four months to get here, but three days ago my notebook finally arrived. I looked for a long time for a notebook with the following: 1. SSD 2. 13.3″ max screen / < 4 lb (basically not too bulky). 3. Docking station 4. A powerful enough gfx card that wouldn’t choke [...]
We would have failed. Miserably. As I emailed our in-house designer (the amazingly talented Elena of Design Disease) the fifth design for iBegin Source (since incarnation), it hit how much we had evolved since our launch. I had the original idea for iBegin in October 2005 (while showering of course). The entire idea behind iBegin [...]
A common attack method of gaining access to a login is to brute force attack. That means on a login page, you enter a username, and then put in a random password. If it fails, you repeat. And repeat. Ad nauseum. If the user uses a simple password (eg ‘food’ or ‘password’), after enough attempts [...]
From the nuts and bolts to how you present data to your visitors – you can squeeze speed out in many ways. The (relatively) popular talk is about optimizing the user-download sequence to wring out as much performance as you possibly can. I’ve talked about this in the context of CSS sprites (great for speed [...]