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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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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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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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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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Came across this very interesting site which provide a (free) service that tells you the technologies that is behind any webpage that you happen to surf to.

BuiltWith.com

Something about BuiltWith

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

BuiltWith technology tracking includes widgets (snap preview), analytics (Google, Nielsen), frameworks (.NET, Java), publishing (WordPress, Blogger), advertising (DoubleClick, AdSense), CDNs (Amazon S3, Limelight), standards (XHTML,RSS), hosting software (Apache, IIS, CentOS, Debian) .

I think it is a very interesting concept and service. It allows webmaster to know what are the techonologies behind the sites which they surf to. Very useful.

Also, the service seems to be very new, just becoming public on the 13th of August 2007. So just hope over and get to know your favourite site even better now.

redhex signing off.

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Read this interesting article on nytimes.com, which discuss about the latest development in online marketing. The article focus on the concepts behind the latest cutomised advertiment technique made possible by the growth of the intenet.

The new science of online display advertising involves a potent mix of behavioral targeting, social networking algorithms, predictive economics, pricing optimization and other mathematical strategies.

What caught my fancy is the idea of a real time auction where the commodity are internet’s surfers’ eyeballs and attention.

Imagine that moments before you surf to a page, the page will fetcht the content, check information collected about your demographics data, and match this with the latest merchant offerings, before send the “best matching” advertisment to complement and garnish the page that the reader will be reading.

Sure sounds like a lot of science behind the whole thing. The artilcle quoted 200+ startups in this business and are funded. Surely Google have a lot of competitors… or a lot of opportunites to cherry pick the best company in this new “optimized marketing” industry.

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Latest news from CNN Money:

Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents.

The report covers the threat from Microsoft to sue the end users of certain Open Source programs which Microsoft themselves feel that are infringing on their patents.

The Open Source Community are unfazed by the threat as reported with their grounds on the fact the software algorithms are nothing but a sequence of mathematics equation and hence cannot be patented. True enough, we have seen the outcome of the gif format lawsuit and many Open Source project had since not undertake the gif format in their features. But of course there is PNG who comes in and fill the gap left by gif.

My opinion is that the threat by Microsoft is one to retart the market share lost it is experiencing in their flagship product of MS office. OpenOffice offers a strong alternative to MS Office and it is literally free. Likewise Apache host most of the internet websites as compared to MS Server.

Giving such threat may slow down the take up rate of Open Source programs by some entities but if it comes up blank, MS will need to have some really huge PR campaign to make up for even more lost ground.

My take on this: If MS wins, users who cannot afford MS office goes to Google Apps. If MS list, users who are afraid of potential similar lawsuit, will move to Google Apps.

Now now, MS is playing catching up on the Search Engine front, while waging a war that can potentially drives more users to Google Apps. Hmmm… Hope MS’s legal eagles are doing the right thing.

Google wins.

And Open Source to come back stronger, even with their own patent. Not to mention that some big companies behind the Open Source Movement may throw their muscles behind Linux and co. programs to ensure a mutually assured destruction via Patent Armageddon.