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You'll need to pay to get out of ymail's pen

As of noon Pacific yesterday, Yahoo! is offering new email accounts on the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains in an effort to "attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses."
I missed the launch by an hour, but still managed to grab a few accounts for my name and business name, such as samstevens@ and stevensmedia@. My […]

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Seriously bad startup names

Here are just a few of the terrible startup names I've come across this morning doing my daily RSS reading:

Meetro
Lefora 
Webook.com
DimDim
Rogomo
Trulia
Syntagma and Moneyizer
Kenshoo.com
Mefeedia
Sendloop.com
Sonopia
Cullensabcs.com
SellABand 
CushyCMS
MeeVee
Contactify
Finalcrit.com
Jodange.com
Kiwihoo.com 

Seriously, where was marketing?!

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AdSense showing Vista ads despite irrelevancy

What's up with AdSense? I've noticed over the past two days that many of my sites that use AdSense are showing an ad for Windows Vista, which is completely irrelevant to the content of the sites. Most of these sites have some Canadian content on them and the ad URL is windowsvista.ca. Conversely, my sites […]

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Performancing passes Metrics to PayPerPost

It wasn't the first time that I couldn't locate the Metrics link in my Performancing account, but this time it wasn't coming back. Performancing.com started 2007 with a couple of announcements that will introduce sweeping changes to their offering of services. Gone is the popular free blog traffic analysis tool Metrics, having just been acquired […]

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AdSense serving questionable ad creatives

I use Google AdSense over on my baseball blog, The Baseball Files. Today I noticed something odd: while I have my ads configured for text-only, here's what I saw in my home page ad block:

Hmm, that photo sure doesn't seem baseball-related! Yet when I clicked on the graphic, I was delivered relevant ads. So Google, […]

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Typography links

Here are a couple of useful typography links:

Typography for Headlines (the post | the examples)
25 Best Free Quality Fonts

I find it interesting that we went through a design trend a couple of years ago that utilized especially small fonts (pixel fonts), but today it's BIG typography that rules all those web 2.0-ish and Rails inspired […]

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