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Jun 17 2004
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Evil toys that control your kids minds

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“Just because kids like him, doesn’t mean that he’s good for them. How many parents plop their kids in front of the tube and then have their brain sucked right out of their skull by this big purple beast. Next thing you know, the kids love Barney more than their own parents. Barney doesn’t teach kids how to deal with reality. Dad wrecks the car and Mom loses her job and Barney solves all of this by singing a happy song.” eBay item 5904745417 (Ends Jun-26-04 21:41:41 PDT) – Barney ActiMates Complete TV & PC Pack Annoying Box via Who Would Buy That which is still my favorite website.

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Jun 08 2004
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Disposable Instant Messenger

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Chatango is an instant message application that allows people to post links on Craigslist, Ebay etc. and have people chat anonymously with sellers with no signup. If you have trouble using IM with people behind corporate firewalls, Chatango will work. Signup, grab your username before anyone else does and send someone buried behind a firewall a link in an email. Its a new product, rough around the edges, but looks like there is quick, free alternative to the enterprise dodads like Liveperson. http://david.chatango.com Disclaimer: I helped Alec, the guy who did this, with some product design.

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May 27 2004
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Spamblogging. Penis enlargement website a marketing scam?

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Do Penis Enlargement Pills Work? is a weblog that has been aggressively linked to recently. Ostensibly it is a personal account of a guy from New York trying the type of product that is normally advertised in spam email. I’m fairly sure this a new type of marketing scam, a ‘Spamblog’, a fake personal blog designed specifically to drive Pagerank and visitors to a product? The evidence: 1. Only two products are mentioned throughout the blog. 2. They are mentioned too often and the links seem too judicious to be real. 3. The discussion of the results of the product are wholly positive (and this stuff is snake oil). 4. Both products have similar websites and are clearly distributed by the same company. 5. The ‘about me’ seems to generic, this is not a real person. So there you have it, I guess there will be more of these types…

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May 13 2004
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San Francisco 2004 Masturbate-a-thon

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If you are at a loose end for something to do in San Francisco this Saturday, you could register for the 2004 Masturbate-a-thon. A Massmasturbate I guess. Half off if you’re participating in the Bay-to-Breakers! Masturbate-A-Thon 2004: Come for a Cause!

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Apr 29 2004
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Couleur Cafe

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Playlist from April’s Casanova lounge session: Uppers | Nick Rossi and David Galbraith @ The Turnaround, April 2004 Anyone welcome to show up for the next scintillating installment.

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Apr 23 2004
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Origin of the word bug

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Edison, the Man was made in 1940, in it, I have a recollection that a machine stops working because ‘there is a bug in it’. If that is true, this clearly predates the accepted origin when a moth appeared in the Mark I computer at Harvard in 1945. Can anyone confirm?

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Apr 16 2004
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Subservient Chicken changes rules of advertising

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Alexa today shows a traffic rank of 1,255 and a 1.5% reach for Burger King’s subservient chicken. Related Info for: subservientchicken.com/ Trying to create an Internet meme like this is hard, but Burger King have pulled it off. What is likely in the future is that savvy advertisers will track sites like Technorati and endorse new memes as they take off.

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Apr 14 2004
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Imagine the fuss if Google did hybrid desktop and web search – well the new Hotbot toolbar already does

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HotBot’s New Desktop Search Toolbar: “HotBot’s new Desktop Search utility not only searches the web, it indexes files and email on your computer, making them searchable as well.” It’s only a matter of time before Google do this and perhaps what has held them back was fear of being too aggressive against Microsoft. As I’ve said before, it is crazy that we can search millions of other computers, thousands of miles apart, more quickly than our own machine. Microsoft should have done this 8 years ago, we should not have to wait because of the stagnation created by a monopoly.

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