Archive for May, 2007

In my previous post I described how I almost got fooled by a clever domain name scam. This has sparked yet another a business idea in my mind.
What if a toolbar existed that allowed users to mark a site as running a scam. Other users on visiting the site would then immediately be alerted to this.
Perhaps this is […]

I almost got scammed today. As I stated in my previous post, I recently put a few of my unused domain names up for sale. A chap claiming to be the CEO of some company emailed me today enquiring about one of them and asking me to state my asking price.
Shortly after I responded to […]

Domain Names For Sale

I read a recent Business 2.0 Magazine article on the domain name trading business and decided to put some of my old and unused domain names up for sale. I have listed the domain names below in case anyone is interested in buying them:

www.alterpay.com - may be of interest to anyone or business wanting to […]

Robert Scoble writes that we need better statistics on web traffic. It got me thinking what sort of application could facilitate this and I think the application would need to have the following characteristics:

Be a Toolbar - Yes, I know (and Scoble also observes) that most people do not download traffic measurement toolbars today, but if the application is […]

I have heard Guy Kawasaki preach that business ideas and startups must have real meaning. I asked him (via a comment on one of his blog posts) what meaning there was in Truemors. My question and his response are below:
My Question:
“Guy, I first read about Truemors a day after watching one of your videos in which you preached that […]

Believe it or not there are countries out there where TV audience data is not available. Primarily these are small or developing countries where audience measurement companies like AGB Nielsen do not operate, probably because it is not cost effective to use traditional audience measurement methods. Examples of such countries abound in Africa and I know of […]

It is late so I will get straight to the point and try to keep this brief. I have an idea for a wiki site that is dedicated to market sector analyses. The goal is that for any given market sector, e.g. mobile advertising, the wiki gives as current a view of the state of […]