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Google was awarded a design patent today on an interesting looking interface, in a patent titled Display device showing user interface. Design patents sometimes leave you guessing as to what it is that you are actually looking at, and they can appear somewhat unusual.
After reading a codinghorror article I came across this in a comment:Good programmers also figure out their best method of self-learning. I'm one of the oddballs that reads the entire manual.
That struck me as interesting. I know I learn in what's probably quite an unusual way. I'd be interested to know how other people here learn.
I teach myself new stuff in a very exploratory way. For each of the new languages I've learned since starting at justin.tv I've spent probably five or ten minutes learning the syntax. Then I jump in and start writing a real program that needs to be released within a week or so. I usually start by writing a "hello world" program, and just add stuff to that until it does what I want (of course, as I learn new tricks I frequently remove a bunch of stuff). If the language has a REPL I use it constantly. If not, I fake it by just printing expressions in my program, and working in a tight loop of editing and running the program again and again to see how the output changes.
I rarely use a reference at this stage unless it's to achieve something concrete. For example, I find myself googling things like "actionscript string search", but only after trying a couple of likely-seeming things myself (i.e. I'll actually just write things like trace("foobar".find("bar")) and trace("foobar".index("bar")), etc until the compiler stops whining or I run out of things to try).
Funnily enough, after I've written a real program that works, and I feel like I understand the language a bit, then I go back and read the reference books thoroughly. It doesn't work the other way for me - I need to have had the exploratory phase and built up some context so that I can read the books properly (and it's fun to read the books at that point and remember how I "discovered" each feature that's discussed).
Startup harnesses the value of a high quality domain name.
I first met René Lacerte at the DEMOfall conference last September. He was officially launching his new company, CashView. The company streamlines the process of accounts payable.
"CashView"? is a good, descriptive domain name for what the company does. But Lacerte decided he could do better, and recently acquired the domain Bill.com.
But the story of how Lacerte got his hands on this premium domain name isn't how you might expect. He didn't wake up one morning, decide he wanted the domain, and contact the owner. Instead, the owner came to him. "The person who owned Bill.com saw what we were doing because of the DEMO PR and approached us saying "˜your product is exactly what I would have done with [the domain]',"? said Lacerte.
In an article published on Feburary 1, 2008, Andrew Feinberg on behalf of Kiplingers, gave a big buy recommendation on Communicate.com one of the stocks in our Domain Parking Stock Index.
In the article M. Feinberg states that the company is worth 50 more than it was at the time of publication ($1.97 at the time of publication and now already over 50% more at $3.15). Mr Feinberg cited the company value in that it has over seven million dollars in cash, the value of it's domains name, and the performance of it's most active site perfume.com
A very impressive article about Communicate.com. Also great t see another article in the mainstream media recogizing the value of domain names.
This is a must read. Here is the link
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An online auction for the Internet domain name montana.com ended Monday with a bid of more than $300,000.
At that price, however, it was no deal.
"For us, the eBay auction was a chance to see what it's worth in that setting, and the price did not meet our expectations,"? said Kevin Amazon, director of sales and marketing for site owner Blackfoot Telecommunications Group in Missoula. "So we're going to retain the site and we'll be looking at building a model for it that works for everyone."?
The rights to montana.com went up for auction on eBay a week ago. By Monday morning, the domain name had drawn 31 bids, including the last one at $310,100. As noted on the eBay site, the seller's reserve price had not been met. That means the seller can accept the highest bid, but doesn't have to.
Amazon wouldn't specify Blackfoot's price, but said the bid was "quite a bit lower"? than the company believes the site's value to be.
"We believe the name is pretty valuable and that the auction didn't really value the site fairly, which is fine,"? Amazon said. "For us, it's really about doing due diligence as we set a value and try to make the site a workable site."?
A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links.
In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics, such as "dellbatterrogram.com" in order to put advertising links on the pages.
The practice, known as typosquatting, is illegal. It's intended to draw unwitting Web surfers to pages with URLs (uniform resource locators) that are similar to legitimate sites, and then redirect them to other sites. The owners of these Web sites get revenue from advertising referral programs every time a link is clicked.
Rumor has it that Goggle.com was sold around year end. The asking price was last October was$3 million. I know of one offer that was laughed at by the owner at $750k. My guess is that it went low seven figures.
I have been watching the progress of Shoppers.com and the auction just finished at Pool. With 15 minutes left the bid price was $65,000 usd. With 12 minutes left the bid price jumped to $75,000. With 10 minutes left, it jumped to $88,000 on 65 bids. With 8 minutes left, it cracked the 6 figure mark and hit $101,000 on 69 bids. 7 minutes left it jumped up to $103,000. 5 minutes upto $113,000 . 4 min $126,000 then to $130,000.
What advice would you give someone who wants to make money online Domaining?
Well I think the important part here is to first pick out a niche that the domainer is interested in. I was interested in the forum niche, since I was going to actually build forum websites. Then after you pick out your niche, study recent sales of domain names in that niche. They don't have to be something like "games.com" if your niche is "Video Games". But maybe something like AvidGamer.com, or Xbox360Gaming.com, etc. And then once you figure out the value of these types of domain names, it is time to find good deals out there for them. You can find perfect deals on the forums such as Namepros.com and Dnforum.com, or even on Ebay.com or Sedo.com. Then when you get it, post it for sale everywhere - TalkFreelance.com, SitePoint, NamePros, DigitalPoint forums, Dnforum, etc. And keep bumping the thread, or creating a new one once every maybe 5 days to keep it fresh. Try different time of day. Some users only go on in the evening after work, while other users may go on only during work. Many times users such as developers, gamers, and geeks may search these forums for domains to buy at night since that's when they are active. ;) So really - try everything. And what I noticed once was, the domains that are hard to sell, never sold in day time. But at night, sometimes I got the sales for my BIN price.
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Jay Weintraub, who formerly worked for Advertising.com and Oversee.net, has unveiled his newest venture, LeadsCon. The 3 day conference and expo takes place at the Palms in Las Vegas, April 2-4.
The conference is only $295 if you register before Febuary 15th (HURRY!) and we've got a special deal for our readers! Register today and get 25% off admission
Jay knows the domain space and many of the players in the space and he's an extremely well-connected guy in the lead generation space. I had a chance to catch-up with Jay and ask him a few questions about the conference to shed some light on what it's about and why domainers might find the show worth attending. This is a "must-go"? show for me, and I believe it will appeal to other domain owners as well.
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