Tag Archives: Business

14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites

7/16/2007 – 10:54 am
[A screenshot of welovewp.com]

WeLoveWP.com highlights great looking WordPress sites, and it’s powered by WordPress, too!

From time to time, someone will hear that I’m involved with WordPress, and ask me a few questions about it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Design, Development, Web Design, WordPress | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (83)

An Air Miles Experiment

9/12/2006 – 12:58 pm

Several years ago I went on a work-related trip on American Airlines (side note: holy cow! they have RSS feeds!). I don’t travel much, but on a whim, I signed up for their AAdvantage program. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

How to revamp Yahoo! Groups?

3/28/2006 – 12:23 pm

Jeremy Zawodny has some thoughts about the possible evolution of Yahoo! Groups.

There are bits of JotSpot (notable Tracker), WordPress, and Flickr that I think could be sprinkled into Yahoo Groups, not to mention Google Maps and/or Wayfaring, Yahoo! Local, Google Calendar, and a few other things.

Jeremy is a sharp guy who keeps his finger close to the pulse of current happenings on the net. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Services | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

AT&T Chairman Loses Brain, Misunderstands Internet

2/2/2006 – 10:08 am

The chairman of AT&T has a tunnel-vision problem:

Ed Whitacre, AT&T’s chairman and chief executive, warned on Monday that internet content providers that wanted to use broadband networks to deliver high-quality services such as movie downloads to their customers would have to pay for the service or face the prospect that new investment in high speed networks “will dry up.”

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“I think the content providers should be paying for the use of the network – obviously not the piece from the customer to the network, which has already been paid for by the customer in Internet access fees – but for accessing the so-called Internet cloud.”

Soooo, let’s break down how dumb these statements are.

First of all, the content providers are paying for service already, in the same way that the end-users do. [...]

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Subway ditches stamps

6/15/2005 – 12:42 pm

We recently discovered that one local Subway franchise was no longer giving out stamps. So we started frequenting a different Subway location. We had been wondering why the first store had made this change. Now I know why.

Ever since the 1980s, Subway customers have received a stamp for every six-inch sandwich purchased (two stamps for a foot-long); filling up a Sub Club card with the requisite number of stamps entitles the customer to a free sandwich. [...]

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