Marcelo Toledo

“Got an idea for a new company? Well don’t be so quick to check if the domain name is available. Rogue companies are out there stealing domain research. The act of typing the domain name in the wrong place may allow these squatters to register the domain before you. Here is how these companies spy on people and some good tips to avoiding them.”

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/03/stealing-domain-name-research/

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Credit crunch? Recession risk? You’d never know it, judging by the frenzy of startup activity. In fact, it’s a pretty good time to start a company. Those factors have combined to make a startup market almost as frothy as the dot-com bubble. Here are 10 pre-IPO, pre-acquisition companies worth watching in 2008.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups

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“(…) Best Current Practices for Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) Roaming. (…) WISPr was chartered by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the recommended operational practices, technical architecture, and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) framework needed to enable subscriber roaming among Wi-Fi based Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs). This roaming framework allows using Wi-Fi compliant devices to roam into Wi-Fi enabled hotspots for public access and services. User can be authenticated and billed (if appropriate) for service by their Home Entity (such as another service provider or corporation).”

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“This somewhat amusing press release of sorts tells us one of those things we’ve all been waiting a while for. SCO(X) has announced that ‘it received a Nasdaq Staff Determination letter on December 21, 2007 indicating that as a result of having filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has determined to delist the company’s securities from the Nasdaq Stock Market and will suspend trading of the securities effective at the open of business on Thursday, December 27, 2007.’ PJ at Groklaw has surmised that with effectively zero cash resources left, Novell doesn’t stand to get much more than SCO’s furniture, if even that. Ding dong, is the wicked witch finally dead yet?”

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“The poker economy has never been flusher. There are an estimated 60m-80m regular players in America and perhaps 80m-100m elsewhere. Poker is by far the largest chunk of the online gambling market, which had worldwide revenues of around $15 billion in 2006—a figure that may be closer to $20 billion this year. Poker chips are among the best-selling items on Amazon.com. What was once the preserve of either high-rollers or low-lifes is now being roundly embraced by the mass of ordinary folk in between.”

The Economist this week

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“About 18 months ago I posted the following question to Ask Slashdot: ‘How do you organize a home library with 3,500 books?’ I have read all the responses, reviewed most of the available software, and come up with a good solution described in the article The Library Problem. This article discusses various cataloging schemes, reviews cheap barcode scanners, and outlines a complete solution for organizing your home library. Now you can see an Ask Slashdot question with a definitive answer.”

Source: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/22/1320207&tid=192

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It’s very interesting how the Brazilian political model works, anyone is legitimate to create a party, an interesting project with enough people interested and you might be approved, today we have around 26 parties in Brazil.

Generally speaking the objective of the politicians is to represent the population and take decisions in their benefits. Unfortunately what you see and hear from them it’s not it, once they need you to put them upstairs they do anything for you, when they are there, they forget you.

Today is happening something very interesting that clearly shows it, we have a temporary tax called CPMF, it’s based on the financial transactions you do, every cent you move 0.38% is for CPMF, everyone in the country is affected and should be over on December 31 of 2007, but might be prorogued by 4 more years if voted so.

We have a party that is very strong, might have the majority of the votes, their decision was to vote for not proroguing it, it’s clear that they are doing this not thinking in the benefits of the population, but creating a strategy to make their opponents weaker.

My question is, would they make this same decision if they were in the power?

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One of the magazines I read weekly is The Economist, it has two types of subscription, online and printed, with 80 USD annually you can read the online version, if you prefer the printed version it goes for 220 USD annually. One thing makes me think, who is the person that works on the pdf version weekly and put it in the torrent? It’s not an easy job, it has an average of 150 pages and it’s an executive magazine, most of the readers can afford 80 USD annually, some evil executive has an internal doing this?

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“Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday that it will go out of business after the holidays following sale of the company to Gordon Brothers Group LLC, a restructuring firm. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. CompUSA of Dallas operates 103 stores, which plan to run store-closing sales during the holidays.

Privately held CompUSA, controlled by Mexican financier Carlos Slim Helu’s Grupo Carso SA, said discussions were under way to sell certain stores in key markets. Stores that can’t be sold will be closed.”

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/08/BU3ETQI3S.DTL

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The DNS was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were defined. The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and ccTLD.

In April 1985 cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the first registered domain names.

The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985.

The first .org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985.

Now for the first .com which was registered on March 15 1985 and it was symbolics.com which still happens to be up and running, although not much to look at.

Now for the first 100 registered domains:

Source: http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first71.html

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