Jerry Leventer

I heard about a social networking tool called Zango and did some research on it. Here’s what I found …
Zango, formerly known as 180solutions and Hotbar, is one of the world’s largest distributors of adware. Last November (2007), Bellevue, Washington-based Zango settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission for $3 million. The FTC [...]

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I was watching Andy Jenkin’s StomperNet video about how to avoid having your pages filtered for duplicate content. One of the warnings is not to have stop words as the only difference between titles on two pages.
In order to know what those stop words are, I have listed them here.

an
click
go
links
most
other
two
what

and
com
has
me
msie
page
us
when

any
copy
have
ie
net
reserved
use
where

are
copyright
he
if
netscape
ring
view
which

as
copyrights
help
in
new
since
visitors
who

at
do
home
inc
no
site
was
why

be
edu
homepage
is
not
text
we
will

been
find
how
it
of
than
we’ve
with

best viewed with
htm
you
http
on
that
web
www

You can see [...]

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This Day In History:
1912: British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had been there a month earlier.
1896: The X-ray machine was first exhibited.
1778: James Cook became the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the “Sandwich Islands.”
Happy Birthday:
Actor/Director Kevin Costner [...]

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2007: Comet McNaught made perigee after coming close to the sun
2005: ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron and other surface elements on the moon
2001: Wikipedia went online
1986: HBO and Cinemax paid cable television services initiated scrambling their national satellite feeds
1943: The world’s largest office [...]

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See my notes for this video in the comments to this post.
Here’s the email I received from Brad Fallon of StomperNet -
Brad Fallon Says:
Did you know that MySpace now gets more page views than Google?
It really makes you think, doesn’t it?
(Suggestion: Read this whole email, but If you want to save time [...]

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This Day In History: January 11, 2008
2001: The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
1935: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1922: Insulin was first used in a human patient to treat diabetes.
1902: Popular Mechanics magazine was first published.
1787: William [...]

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Here is the email I sent to Skype technical support.
Hello,
My networking community (about 250 - 500 people) and I have some questions and suggestions. I’m using Window XP, so I don’t know if these apply to all operating systems or not.
My associates and I have spent many hours collecting, developing, and documenting these ideas. I [...]

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Are you one of those people who still uses an Analog TV Set? Or, maybe you know someone who still has one. Starting February 18, 2009, anyone who does not own a digital TV, or who does not have a digital tuner for their analog TV set and who does not receive their [...]

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In today’s busy life, men might not have enough time to find a true friend or a soul mate.
It has been seen that very often men get too involved with their career goals that they are not able to spend quality time to find a person of their dreams. Mostly they look for a partner [...]

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I found this on another blog and thought I’d share it with you…
Our deepest fear is NOT that
we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually. who are you not to be?
You are [...]

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