What's Up in the Blogosphere

Blogs have come a long way in the few short years of it's existence. Somehow these "popularity" votes remind me of search engines that just don't have it all right, just yet. Although some blogs actually do have great content, I believe some of them just don't know what they are talking about. These blogs are just out there to gain popularity and hopefully make a bit of quick cash along the way. I see wanting to gain attention just fine, as long as it doesn't look like a search I did on google this weekend...

I did a google search for "unfinished furniture" in Vancouver. I'm not really sure what you need to do to actually get up a site that isn't a complete ad, but that was the case over the weekend. Falling way short of my "ok" rating, I went directly to the yellow pages to get a better search.

I'm not sure what it will take to get on par for searches but there surely is a link between bad content and bad blogs. People are still abusing the system to be popular instead of winning fans from what they are really talking about. Hopefully this problem will be ironed out in time, but for now I'm not a fan of either...

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Blackberry Loosing Battle

Blackberry looks like it might have seen better days. As for the people who use their Blackberries daily, this might be in fact the worst news yet because the Supreme court has rejected Blackberry's appeal for patent infringements.

Blackberry is the Canadian maker of the popular wireless e-mail device has been locked in litigation against NTP Inc. The McLean-based patent-holding company holds the licenses for the technology which is just plain bad news for Blackberry. Previously in December, I had announced it was looking bad for Blackberry users.

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Bloggers of Today Change The Internet

Reflecting on the past, can get you somewhere in the future. That future makes me reflect on the internet. It's amazing how different the internet was ten years ago. Blogs didn't exist and certainly were not a topic at school. Most of my friends didn't have a clue about the internet or were just getting introduced to it. Blogging has changed lifestyles. Teens might even have better ideas than most adults on starting a business. Alex Tew's million dollar pixel site was certainly one of those relevations. I must admit, since we have started our own pixel we have picked up traffic ten fold. It's one idea many have run with. What else is out there to try?

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Swiss Dispute Over Domains

The Swiss government claims it has the right to take over a few controversial domain names which have to do with Switzerland. The Swiss entrepreneur who has had the domains since 1995 says the government has no right in taking over what he owns. The government currently has the domain of http://www.ch.ch and thinks it has full reign on other languages to say Switzerland.

Personally I think the Swiss entrepreneur is in the right because there are many other websites which fit this bill too. In fact, I think it's a waste to simply just redirect the website, like http://www.switzerland.ch which goes to the dot.com of the address.

By using proper marketing to let others know of the domain, would simply curb this problem. If you knew you would redirect yourself to the proper website. I'm for the Swiss entrepreneur in this case hands down. It's his right to free speech, to have his own domain and he beat the government to the punch by over 5 years. The government is in the loss and well if they would have hired someone earlier, maybe they wouldn't be pouting about this entire ordeal in the first place. The Swiss entrepreneur has a million dollar domain and he's making it work for him.

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