• Archive for August 2nd, 2005

    Yahoo breaks out the small market advertising

    by  • 8/2/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    Now Yahoo will play to that constituency and challenge Google’s pricing power in one of the fastest-growing online mediums: blogging. Like Google’s service, Yahoo’s self-serve product will display text ads deemed relevant to the content of specific Web pages. Advertisers pay only when a reader clicks on their ads. Yahoo and publishers will split the [...]

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    Plane crashes in Toronto; everyone survives

    by  • 8/2/2005 • life • 0 Comments

    Score one for the crew of this Air France flight; No fatalities in Toronto airplane fire CBC News All 309 people aboard a jet that overshot a runway and burst into flames at Pearson International Airport Tuesday survived the ordeal, according to fire officials on the scene. There were 14 minor injuries, however. Interesting bit [...]

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    Are you paying attention, Rojo?

    by  • 8/2/2005 • geek, meta---ging • 0 Comments

    I’m using Rojo to read news this week, and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. I’ve managed to tag many of the feeds, though I tend to prefer the way I had them in Bloglines or in Sage; one massive long list. With one big list I can see immediately which feeds I’m [...]

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    One of Two

    by  • 8/2/2005 • geek, life • 0 Comments

    Looks like our neighbours have signed for Precious Package One of Two from Apple. Sadly, it’s the package that contains the warranty enrollment information for the Apple Protection Plan, and that’s just no fun without the technology to go with. Package Two of Two shows as “in transit” from Richmond, though it’s been like that [...]

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