Remember the race to register all the domain names in the world? Remember how registering www.your_name.com was a big deal (still is) and lots of people did so in order to prevent so-called “identity theft”? Well, here is a very sneaky marketing tactic that Facebook could use to help accelerate its growth…
Facebook could basically start [...]
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How Facebook Can Double its Numbers :-)
uTest – Test Software & Get Paid
Testing can be annoying and boring… so, what if you could crowdsource your testing? i.e. pay people from across the world to test your software instead of hiring full time personnel to do it… I like the concept and I like it a lot… We might end up using a company called uTest that lets [...]
new domain name: beunreasonable.org
Quick Update: I registered http://www.beUnreasonable.org as a domain name (it was the only beUnreasonable domain that was available)…
nothing has really changed, now there is a shorter address for the blog…
btw, if you are registering domains, make sure to use http://www.godaddy.com since you’ll probably be able to get the cheapest prices with these guys…
Aydin.
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Microsoft could Acquire Yahoo
This is the story that has been making the headlines in the past little while… Microsoft could acquire Yahoo for a deal that might become worth more than $50 billion once all the bidding is over. The reality is, that while the merger would be interesting, to say the least, a lot of companies out [...]
5000 Friend Limit on Facebook!?!?
Is the 5000 friend limit on Facebook a myth? not really. Renowned Silicon Valley blogger Robert Scoble, reached this limit a long time ago. Mark Cuban (billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks) just reached the limit. Jeff Pulver has about 4,200 friends and is fast approaching the limit. I would’ve assumed that with the weight [...]
BlackBerry and Facebook are now Married!!!
If you are like the other 8 million people around the world that have BlackBerries, you are in luck! RIM has recently added an integrated Facebook Application to its popular mobile phone. The BlackBerry Facebook application is based on the Facebook Mobile API, which is still fairly new.
To be honest, I am very impressed and [...]
Google Declares War on Facebook!!!
Many people applauded Facebook when they launched the Facebook Platform and allowed third party developers to build applications on their website. In fact, this was somewhat of a revolutionary move that contributed to Facebook’s estimated $15 billion value today. Naturally, all the other guys wanted a piece of this pie: MySpace, Six Apart, Orkut, Salesforce, [...]
iPhone is Coming to Canada!!!
As the advertisement above shows, we may be seeing the iPhone a lot sooner than I had originally assumed. If you’ve had a chance to play with the iPhone, you’ll have realized what an amazing toy it is. If you think about it, you probably payed $200+ for you iPod and now you can [...]
Apple is Finally worth More than IBM :-)
If you ever heard of the beginning of Apple and Steve Jobs, you’ll appreciate the significance of this news. Steve Jobs, since the very beginning, was looking to beat IBM. That moment has finally come. At the current stock price of $186 per share, Apple is worth $162 Billion, whereas IBM is worth $159 Billion. [...]
The Apple iPhone is Taking Over!!!
Everyone has heard of the iPhone and how fast it is gaining in popularity. Here are some interesting stats recently revealed by Apple:
1) 1.4 Million iPhones have been sold in a little over 3 months. That’s roughly 16,000 iPhones a day!!! It took over 2 years for Apple to sell that number of iPods…
2) [...]
