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I found the message url not found for my alexa redirects links. It seems that redirect.alexa.com is down not non-functional.

Any readers here with similar problem with alexa redirect? Alexa redirect  is useful to allow alexa to track your visits with Alexa even when your users does not have the Alexa Toolbar installed. And I did use them for several links that I place in comments and forums. Hopeful Alexa can resolve this redirect.alexa.com problem as soon as possible else my links will be ineffective and some serious clean up need to be done.

Any one else having the same problem with this?

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Was loking at Slashdot articles and it shows this very interesting writeup on the worst Tech product.

Of which I had the Tamagotchi.

Tamagotchi
Created in 1996 by Aki Maita, Tamagotchi made manufacturer Bandai an absolute fortune. It was hugely successful and spawned countless clones. It was the must-have toy of its day. Why is it an example of terrible tech? Because it was intensely irritating.

You looked after a tiny pixellated cretin who, after eating a variety of oversized meals, left piles of dung in one corner of his screen, each as large as the creature it came from. Owners could then punish the little swine or feed it more food. It would also wake up at 7am demanding you clean the huge load it created while you were sleeping.

The little beggars disrupted classroom after classroom, caused fights in the playground and even spawned nanny services — where unemployed housewives charged kids their pocket money to look after the useless bastards while their owners were at school.

Nothing this pointless should be spared the stinging lash of geek revisionism, regardless of its commercial success.

Man, go easy on the toy. It is after all a toy and it was a very successful toy for the matter of fact. But at least it was not as bad as the last item on the list…
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Singapore MDA upper management did this clip that sells itself as the place to be, to place Singapore’s media in a international stage.

Being a Singaporean, I am pretty speechless when I first saw it. Does it make you cringe?

Oh yes, I got this Can Do, Rock On notice from TechCrunch, and digged the video up from Youtude.

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For those bleeding edge technology user out there, Firefox Beta 1 is out. Zdnet did a good review on the beta 1 version and it seems that it is all about speed and security.

I have pretty bad experience with Firefox 2 in the fact that it had poor memory management. And by poor i mean it really sucks up a lot of memory. Opening my netvibes page and my iGoogle page concurrently and it will eat up around 80+ megabyte of memory. Yes I do have a lot of widgets and feeds to read, but surely not 10 percent of my system memory.

And it seems that Firefox 3 have the potential to solve this problem once and for all. Sweet I say. Hopefully the official release can come out real soon. Currently Beta 1 is for developers to test.
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Mashables have a collection of Classifieds sites as one of their on going list of webish stuff.

As usual, Craglist was on the list with Vast and Oodle. Epage and Backpage are included in the list as well.

Surprisingly Ablewise, the classifieds site that I been working on was not on the list. Surely it deserve a position on Mashable listing. And that left me thinking about how Mashable select the sites to include on their list. A big question mark.

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Saw this wonderful post on the best of 2007 Technology on Pop Science via Slashdot.

It have several interesting projects that I have yet to know. Including the impressive Chicago Spire and the magical inifinity gears bicycle based on the great Da Vinci drawings.
And of course there is the overhyped hyped Iphone and the familiar Mp3 from Piaggio.

As you can see, I am not so into cars and such. But do check out the useful list of Green technology winners. Go green is surely cool from 2007 onwards.

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Pardon me for the attention grabbing headline. Everybody is doing that right?

For those who are tired of getting lousy hotmail address, example myname4535@hotmail.com, wait no more, live.com is here.

MSN is opening up free email under the live.com domain name. And there are plenty localized domain for people to take also. If you beling to some unlucky places, you can settle for windowlive.com.

I gotten this update via liveside, all the latest scoop about the MSN live.com emails!

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This is a single picture post and for the reader, is the model turning clockwise or counter clockwise?

If you can see one way, can you see the other? Pretty amazing how our eyes and brain can fool us.

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Some news from around the web:

DomainTool Blog

Seems that the cost of registering a domain will cost more. And the trend is for it to cost more as the years goes by. Not a good sign for small business owners.

Yep, $6.42 is the new price. The Registry for .COM and .NET, Verisign, has issued its order. Pricing is going up! Verisign quietly negotiated the ability to raise prices on their domain names every year from now until, well forever. They can negotiate the ability to raise prices at least 7% a year for 4 of the next 6 years.

And 2 more times if it is for security or stability. My bet is that the price will go up for the next 6 years, every year. So starting on October 15th, expect Registrars to reveal their new pricing as they feel the impact and pass the increased cost on to domain holders.

But again, it may not be such a bad thing. It will cost cyber squatters more to hog domains now also if you take a different perspective.

Maybe it is time for me to rush out and buy those domain that I wanted for so long. Any good domain registry to recommend? Currently I am using namecheap.

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To follow up on my recent post on BuiltWith, I will post the results of hedir.com when ran with the BuiltWith Engine.

The results:

Analytics and Tracking

Google Analytics

Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.

Other popular sites using Google Analytics include globalsurfari.com, gennit.com, wordpress.com, readwriteweb.com, billycorgan.info and g2007.com.

Widgets

Google Custom Search

Have a website or collection of sites you’d like to search over? With Custom Search Engine, you can harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs.

0.59% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Google Custom Search.

Google Custom Search

Custom Google search catering to the needs of hedir.com.

2.02% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Google Custom Search.

Advertising

Google Adsense

A contextual advertising solution for hedir.com delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.

Other popular sites using Google Adsense include globalsurfari.com, billycorgan.info, feedmyapp.com, longboardlife.com, walkjogrun.net and nasdaq.com.

9.19% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Google Adsense.

Document Information

XHTML Transitional

hedir.com claims XHTML Transitional status (check). XHTML 1.0 Transitional is the same as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but follows XML syntax rules. It supports everything found in XHTML 1.0 Strict, but also permits the use of a number of elements and attributes that are judged presentational, in order to ease the transition from HTML 3.2 and earlier. These include center, u, strike, and applet.

Creative Commons

hedir.com contains links to Creative Commons which may suggest some of the page uses licenses from the site.

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML

Javascript

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though “JavaScript” is much more commonly used. hedir.com uses JavaScript.

So there we have. If you want to see the real deal, check out hedir on BuiltWith.redhex signing off.

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