Daily Links for November 25, 2007

• Threadless: From Clicks to Bricks
  Nice article on Threadless and their first physical store.
  (tags: Threadless shopping)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Now go be with family.

Daily Links for November 17, 2007

• PriceDrop - track Amazon price drops with a Firefox extension
  PriceDrop is a Firefox extension which allows you to track product prices at Amazon shops , and get notifications whenever they drop. It will also help you get a refund from Amazon.com if a product you’ve already bought becomes cheaper.
  (tags: deals shopping firefox amazon)
• Refund Please - Helping you get a Price Drop Refund
  This is a site that will tell you if the price of an item you bought drops. It’s great for getting that 30 day Amazon refund. Amazon will give you the difference if an item you bought drops in price within 30 days of your purchase.
  (tags: shopping deals amazon)

Daily Links for November 15, 2007

• Black Friday Ads - The Official Black Friday 2007 Website
  Black Friday, also known as the Day After Thanksgiving, is the day most retail stores offer customers great deals for shopping on the first day of the Holiday Shopping Season.
  (tags: deals blackfriday shopping)

Have You Hugged a Veteran Today?

Today is Veterans Day. So thank all those Veterans, and all those troops protecting our way of life.

Change Your Clock

I should have reminded you earlier, but don’t forget to change your clock. You should have done it last night or this morning (Sunday, November 4th). Clocks went back an hour and that means you gained an extra hour. Enjoy.

Daily Links for October 27, 2007

• GoDaddy Increases .Com Prices 12% - Domain Name Wire
  Domain name registrar GoDaddy has increased its base price for .com domains to $9.99, plus an ICANN fee of $.20. It’s due to increases in the prices Verisign charges for all .coms. Good thing they keep having great discounts that I tell you about.
  (tags: Verisign Registrar domain Godaddy)
• Microsoft’s ‘Halo’ effect
  Microsoft reported quarterly earnings Thursday that beat analysts estimates, citing robust demand for its Vista operating system as well as its new video game “Halo 3.” Shares of the company were up nearly 10 percent after-hours. If only I kept my stock.
  (tags: vista halo halo3 earnings stocks microsoft)
• Senate approves Internet tax ban extension
  The Senate on Thursday night approved a seven-year extension of a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access. The two chambers will have to reach a compromise on the length of the ban and other differences.
  (tags: Senate Internet Tax Congress)
• FCC approves $27.5B Alltel buyout
  The Federal Communications Commission on Friday approved a $27.5 billion buyout of Alltel Corp., the nation’s fifth-largest wireless carrier, to a private investment group.
  (tags: cellphones telephones Alltel FCC business)

Daily Links for October 25, 2007

• Meet Your Future Employee
  Would-be technologists are turned off by the tech crash of the early ’00s, the shift of jobs overseas to outsourcing providers, and an overall perception of IT as a go-nowhere, nuts-and-bolts profession, observers say. Good thing I love my job.
  (tags: management career it business employment technology)
• Google signs deal to buy Nielsen TV data - Oct. 24, 2007
  Internet search leader Google is sharpening its focus on the television ad medium with demographic data from the Nielsen. Google will pay Nielsen an undisclosed amount to obtain detailed information about the kinds of people who watch specific TV shows.
  (tags: advertising television nielsen google)
• Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook - New York Times
  Microsoft is investing $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values Facebook at $15 billion. As part of the deal, Microsoft will sell the banner ads on Facebook outside of the United States, splitting the revenue with them.
  (tags: business facebook microsoft)

Daily Links for October 23, 2007

• FORTUNE: Tech Daily Bragging Rights: Xbox finally outsells the Wii «
  The Xbox has overtaken the Wii this month. But I doubt it’s sustainable. It was a Halo 3 pop. But the 360 can easily get a place in people’s homes with the PS3 being so unattractive, and the Wii being hard to come by.
  (tags: games nintendo microsoft wii xbox)

Daily Links for October 20, 2007

• Rumor: Yahoo Exec Joining Nintendo?
  Could Cammie Dunaway, the marketing maven who just jumped ship from Yahoo, be looking to work at Nintendo? That’s what several tipsters tell Kotaku. Yahoo’s chief marketeer may be on her way to Nintendo, where a trio of vacancies are looking to be filled.
  (tags: business games nintendo)
• Nintendo: Gamers Bored Before Wii - News at SPOnG.com
  Analyst Mike Goodman thinks that Nintendo has performed a nifty switch with Sony. “They’re capturing gaming households. … And they’ve done the best job in marketing that they’ve expanded the marketplace.”
  (tags: games nintendo)
• News: THQ signs IP deal with Nintendo - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
  A new SEC filing states that on October 12, “Nintendo of America and THQ entered into a Confidential License Agreement for the Wii Console.” It seems to be a standard renewal of an existing agreement. Still good to hear.
  (tags: games nintendo)