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Trust me, kids: learn to play a musical instrument reasonably well before college.
As for accordion playing, the “coolness graph” looks like this:
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One Lapdance Per Child
Sometimes I write a blog entry just for the sake of getting a funny title out there. This is one of those times, thanks to this report: Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops.
(With apologies to the fine people at the One Laptop Per Child project)
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Facebook is the new…
Jason Kottke wrote that Facebook was the new AOL. Dave McClure disagreed and said that it’s the new Visual Basic, Brandon Paddock disagrees with both of them and says that it’s the new Windows.
According to a Google search for the phrase “Facebook is the new”, Facebook is the new…
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Facebook is the next…
According to a Google search for the phrase “Facebook is the next”, Facebook is the next…
- Broadcast.com
- Big Thing
- big IPO
- frontier
- Microsoft
- Friendster
- big web evolution
- MySpace
- level in the way kids are interacting
- best thing to sliced bread
- big thing in presidential politics
- SharePoint
- WordPress
- Orkut
- site to be sold
- shift that we are witnessing
- target
- thing in the UK
- barbed-wire camp
Tucows will be at HostingCon 2007, which takes place next week in Chicago from Monday, July 23rd to Wednesday, July 25th at Navy Pier. HostingCon bills itself as “the largest gathering of hosted services professionals in the world” and for more details about the conference, check our their conference program.
We’ll be making our presence known there — I won’t be there, but my coworkers Kim, Leona, Adam and Hasdeep will. Be sure to keep an eye out for squishy cows and…
Our Booth
We’ll have a booth in the exhibitors’ hall — booth 817, which is right beside the networking lounge. Feel free to come chat with us about our new Email Service, Premium Domains and other upcoming things from Tucows.
You can look for booth 817 on the official HostingCon map or use our slightly customized one below to find us:
Our Session: Rethinking Domain Name Search
On Wednesday, July 25th, from 3:30 – 4:15 p.m. in room 109, Product Manager for Domains Adam Eisner will be making his presentation, Rethinking Domain Name Search.
Here’s the description of his presentation:
With the rise of the domain name aftermarket, many expired names never return to the public for repurchase. This, combined with the fact most web hosting companies don’t provide an effective domain name search feature on their website, results in many lost sales opportunities for domain names, web hosting, email and more.
This session will show web hosts how to “re-think” their website’s domain name search strategy in response to market developments like better name suggestion technology, fewer available names, and the rise of the domain name aftermarket. The strategies outlined and demonstrated will help web hosts obtain tangible improvements in their domain name and web hosting sales.
Topics covered will include:
- How to improve sales by improving your existing domain name search process (using tangible examples)
- Maximizing the number of relevant results provided using name suggestion technology
- Using domain name aftermarket to ensure customers receive the most relevant domain name availability results possible
Come on out and say hello!
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Typography School
Here’s something I found amusing and entertaining: an explanation of the ins, outs and benefits of old-school letterpress typography, done in a 1950’s black-and-white newsreel/documentary style: Typography School. The video features David Dabner, who teaches letterpress typography at the London College of Printing and thinks that computer-based typography has made students lazy and sloppy.
[Found via Transbuddha, who found it via Fresh Signals]
According to The Register, today is the 15th birthday of the Thinkpad, the laptop originally made by IBM and now Lenovo. Aside from re-establishing IBM’s reputation as a computer hardware manufacturer and becoming an icon for businessperson on the go, the ThinkPad is also notable for popularizing the TrackPoint controller.
And Now, The Saucy ThinkPad Story
Image borrowed from Coding Horror — it’s from the Touchpad vs. Trackpoint article.
My co-worker at OpenCola, Helen Waters, told me this story.
Helen was our tech person was OpenCola (this was back in the late ’90’s), making sure that people got the machines they needed, that their software got installed and so on. One day, she had presented a woman at the office with her new company-assigned ThinkPad whose pointing device, naturally enough, was a TrackPoint.
The woman, who’d used only mice and touchpads before, had no idea how to mouse around with the TrackPoint and began tapping on it as if it were a button — first a couple of tentative taps, and then taps in rapid succession — with predictable results.
Helen stepped in and quickly demonstrated the TrackPoint principle. She reached in and with her finger, pointed the TrackPad the way it was meant to be used — like a tiny joystick.
“It figures,” said the woman, “It was obviously designed by a man.”