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Entries from October 2005

IIW2005 roundup

October 27th, 2005 ·

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Building Internet identity systems by ZDNet’s Phil Windley — [...]

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Blog domain mapping notes

October 26th, 2005 ·

New URL is the best, but you have to get lots of inbound links for it to start ranking properly in search engines. If its in a directory and there is just 1 link to it it will start ranking nearly right away, assuming that www.companyname.com doesn’t have 10’s [...]

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My Trufina ID

October 26th, 2005 ·

Today I received my Trufina Verified Identity and I wanted to post what it will look like when it launches in the near future.

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Grabbing Expiring Domain Names

October 26th, 2005 ·

This article on snatching popular domain names is excellent.

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Internet Identity Workshop

October 25th, 2005 ·

As an advisor to Trufina, I am excited they will be attending the Internet Identity Workshop in Berkeley tomorrow. Trufina identify verification Services are portable, persistent digital credentials which make it easy for businesses and customers to answer the question “Is this person who they say they are?”

A coming out party, if you will.

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Halley’s Comment

October 25th, 2005 ·

Nice blog that I found through the Corante network where I have a blog. I am not part of her inner circle so I can’t post comments on her blog. What a shame.

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ETCHamac laser-etched powerbooks

October 24th, 2005 ·

ETCHamac will engrave your Powerbook or iPod with any design you want.

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Old skool shareware sites

October 23rd, 2005 ·

I just saw a reference to sumex-aim.stanford.edu, which used to be a great shareware site for Mac software. Reminded me of gopher, WAIS and the other popular services and protocols from the 1994-era internet. While browsing an old archive I came across a bunch of sites and projects that I will someday get to posting [...]

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Noric get hitched

October 22nd, 2005 ·

My friends Nora and Eric tied the knot a few weeks ago. A fantastic wedding weekend in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee, the honeymoon was in New
Zealand.

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Colbert Report

October 22nd, 2005 ·

Steven Colbert has a new show on Comedy Central. If you like Jon Stewart you’ll like Steven. Here’s the blog.

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