Archive for June, 2007

The world’s most valuable domain names

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

From Forbes by way of domain king Frank Schilling (who in turn got it from Joe Davison) comes a feature on the art of domaining and a list of the five most expensive domain names in the world. They are, in order:

sex.com ($12m)
porn.com ($9.5m)
business.com($7.5m)
diamond.com ($7.5m)
beer.com ($7m)

The article gives insight into the history of these domains […]

It’s iPhone party time!

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I won’t be picking one up (since I still have a few months left on my Sprint contract…ewww), but it looks like Apple employees will be having a happy iPhone day. Engadget is also hosting a photographic iPhone unboxing so if you’re in the “not yet” camp, you can drool over one over the web. […]

How the hell do I use regular expressions? (oh btw iPhone)

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

In the time I’ve been coding, there have been many complicated-seeming tasks that have been intimidating until I sat down and figured them out. When I was coding AOL apps in 1997, it was string manipulation in VB. Then it was file IO (also in VB). I never did quite master binary operators in C. […]

Oh, lovely iPhone linkbait

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Notice anything? My post is being picked up by a feed scraper and being linked from this blog, thus giving me another valuable backlink and a boost in Technorati authority. So, without further ado, this is a post designed to bait that iPhone blog into giving me another link.  :twisted:
Sadly, they are nofollow links, though. […]

Journalism alert: iPhone as a status symbol

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Note: I originally wrote this piece in January for the Medill News Service, shortly after it was announced that Cingular would have the exclusive rights to distribute iPhone. Although that part of the article is no longer timely, I think it’s still newsworthy given this week’s release of the device.
Cingular Wireless could see a flood […]