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Fuzzoodles – A Lesson in Bad Marketing

Last night I saw a commercial on TV for a child’s toy called Fuzzoodles. It’s basically a set of little fuzzy pipes and pieces that you put together to make crazy looking characters. I’m pretty sure I have actually bought some of these in the past...

Meltdown on Twitter Street

This weekend, it seems that many thousands of Twitter users had their accounts suspended for no reason. Twitter’s excuse is that there was a “spamcloud” that had to be dealt with…So, my first question is: what the heck is a spamcloud?My second...

Warning about Network Solutions

Wanna see a real time example of theft? Do this:Go to http://GoDaddy.comSearch for a made-up domain name, something very unlikely to already be registered. If your first choice is already taken, try again. Repeat until you find one that is available, but do not...

Microsoft Puts an End to Cybersquatting

is registering a domain name that incorporates the brand name of an existing company in order to capitalize on traffic that might result from owning the domain, or to sell it back to the company that actually owns the domain name. It used to be a way for a little guy...