I finally posted the letter we received from the music labels’ solicitors over on the company blog.
I had been meaning to do so for a few days, but I was waiting to see if the ISPAI membership could agree on a response.
I love these broad sweeping generalisations.
They’re sort of fun …
According to a Ryanair spokesperson “bloggers are idiots”
Lovely!
At least they are consistent in their approach
The idiot in this instance is Jason and anyone else who mentioned his post (I presume we’re all guilty by association .. )
While I can fully understand and appreciate people using captcha on web submission forms to stop spam / robots, I really don’t get why anyone would make a captcha so complicated that it is unusable.
The IIA Netvisionary nomination form has this “lovely” captcha on it:
I saw that and my eyes glazed over.
Sorry guys, but there is no way that I’m even going to attempt to make sense of that.
Darragh also posted about this (he’d know!)
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This year’s Oscars were dominated by Slumdog Millionaire.
I liveblogged the evening / night over on FilmReviews and lost track of how many awards Slumdog picked up – was it eight?
Remember Bido spamming people on DNForum?
Well they’ve also decided it would be a “good idea” to spam bloggers asking for a review.
*sigh*
I get a lot of email to both my personal and work email addresses every single day, so sometimes I don’t spot an email immediately. Since it’s a Saturday I decided I’d go back over some of the less important emails I’d received over the last couple of days when I came across this really stupid email from Bido:
My name is Andrew Laskaris with Bido.com – the
one-domain-per-day Social Auction Platform. I’d like to take a moment to
let you know that Bido is back! We took a technical hiatus for the past few
months to rebuild our architecture, and we’re finally returning auctions
with a big splash. I’d like to get you to visit our site and perhaps
post a review on your blog about our Social Auction service.Check out our site of course, but here are some
pointers about Bido to get you started:
Mainly we are trying to relay the image to people that we are a Social Auction
platform, so that should certainly get a mention. More on this later.
We also feature Trackbacks so we give incentive for bloggers to link to us, as
we will give a permanent link back.
We’re also happy to announce that we will be soon opening the Bido
platform to extend beyond domain names, it’s a Social Auction platform
that can be used in almost any industry, such as classic cars for example. More
on this later.
Expert Members get many benefits of participation, details below, along with
some more info and strong points of Bido to help you understand what we do, who
we are, the vision, how the site works, etc.Bido was founded on the principal that the domain name industry needs change
and we expect the revolutionary means in which auctions are conducted online
will contribute to this change.Bido.com is focused on auctions in the domain name industry. Domains
names are equivalent to online real estate, and getting a good name these days
is hard. A number of companies have sprung up with made-up names or
unique names that leave out vowels, such as flickr.com.
This is because they cannot register regular domains as they have all been
gobbled up long ago.Bido.com focuses on one good domain name a day, so people both within the
domain name industry and outside the domain name industry have a chance to
acquire great domains at fair market value via our auction.The one domain a day auction allows a lot of people to focus on the value of
one domain, instead of having to search through thousands of domain listings to
find a domain they may or may not want.We pick one domain from thousands of submissions we receive on a weekly
basis. We write a description about the domain’s potential uses, find
videos that correspond with that domain to try to visualize our description,
and then we market the domain the domain around to our contacts, partners, and
end-users identified as possessing an interest in the domain at hand. The
auction lasts one hour and starts at 1:00PM EST. The starting price is always
$1.00.Members submit domains with no reserve and let the market determine the final
selling price, while the Bido team ensures the technology and brand are there
to ensure the maximum sale price that the market will bear.The type of format we use for auctions is unique, as is the platform and
technology we use to push the domain names up for auction.We have built our own, proprietary “push technology.” The technology
allows us to push all of the bidding prices, the bidding history, high bidder
status, and other information directly to the user – without requiring
the user to refresh his Web page. All information is updated in real time and
no action is needed from the user – as far as domain auctions go, this is
completely unique.Bido uses trackbacks so if you link to an auction, we will detect it and send a
linkback from our trackback system. Each linkback is admin-approved, so if you
don’t see it right away, give it a little bit of time for Bido to review the
link and approve the linkback. The linkback will appear just above the array of
Expert Commentaries.
This is an incentive for bloggers to get benefits from participating. The
linkback is a reciprocal link from the Bido.com site and will help the blog
gain more weight in the search engines.Being an expert member helps the person to build their brand, market their
name, gain exposure and recognition in the industry.
Who are Bido.com Experts:* Direct navigation experts
* Domain name development experts
* Domain name investors
* Search engine optimization experts
* Brand managers
* Marketing executives
* And some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the
business world today.Benefits of being an Expert Member:
* Expert reviews on Bido.com will be viewed by thousands of
people everyday providing increased recognition for yourself and your company.
* Being featured on one of the most popular domain name
auction websites in the world will increase your credibility and standing in
the domain community.
* Bido.com will keep a history of every auction so you can
refer to your comments for years to come. Search engines will also index your
comments further strengthening your web presence.
* Your profile will give users the ability to communicate
with you directly and allow you to highlight your personal and professional
interests. In exchange for contributing your time and domain knowledge,
Bido.com will help you connect with new clients and build your own business.The Bido platform is much more than domain name auctions, however.
Soon we will open the Bido platform and let other people operate their own
auction channel.
The Social Auction Platform can be used in a plethora of industries.So these are some key points about Bido, to give you an overview of the
platform. In your review, if you would like to link to a specific auction URL,
we will approve a link back to your blog. It takes approximately an hour for
that link on our site to go live.Your readers will certainly applaud you for identifying Bido as a site of
interest to them.Also, we have a Facebook group we would like you to join:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51023537523
We have a LinkedIn group as well:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1171027
And if you would like to follow us on Twitter, this is our profile link:
http://twitter.com/bidodotcomWe can expand upon this later if you need additional information. Feel free to
give me a call at 800-611-Bido if you have any questions and you would like to
speak with me. Thanks for your attention and I look forward to reading and
hearing your thoughts. Please send me a link to your blog post should you
decide to do a writeup on us.Best regards,
Andrew Laskaris
www.Bido.com
Idiots!
Why do I get the distinct impression that the Bido spammers are not going to stop spamming any time soon?
So now the question is whether I should email the spammers to give them links to my blog posts about them, or if they have any semblance of a clue (doubtful, admittedly) maybe I’ll just wait until they find them by themselves …
Jason spotted a glitch on the Ryanair website earlier today and posted about it.
It’s a glitch. Most large complex websites have them at some point or another.
It’s not the end of the world (Aer Lingus still use the browser language setting to “work out” where you’re based)
What is amazing is the tone and total lack of professionalism of the comments from the Ryanair staff members. Check out Jason’s post to see them.
Don’t they realise what a bad reflection on their employer they’re giving?
Seriously – if you want to post rude or offensive comments online don’t do it from a corporate netblock. Anyone with half a clue can trace it back to your employer.
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When I got my Nokia E71 back before Christmas I immediately fell in love with the device.
One of the options that we setup was MFE (Mail for Exchange) which was pretty functional, although a bit limited.
However while we were working on our Hosted Exchange service launch Paul came across a really nice bit of software that takes the E71 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 to a whole new level.
The software – RoadSync – is really cool and makes full use of ActiveSync on Exchange server 2007. Basically it means that you can get “email push” without having to spend a fortune on expensive addons for your Exchange server.
Configuring RoadSync is pretty easy. You just enter your login details on the device you’re using and off you go.
If you’re connecting into an Exchange Server 2007 setup, like we are, then you can turn the synchronisation to use ActiveSync, which means that you’ll get your email on your phone almost instantly.
The other features that give RoadSync that extra “edge” are its support for HTML emails (MFE simply can’t handle them) and sub-folder support. Since I get so much email every day I have a rather complex set of rules to filter emails off to different folders depending on subject lines, senders and addressees. MFE simply cannot deal with the subfolders, whereas RoadSync does a reasonable job of it.
All in all moving my business email onto my phone has made things a lot easier. I don’t feel as “tied” to my desktop / laptop as before and can receive emails easily while on the move. While admittedly a lot of this would have been possible on my N95 the full keyboard on the E71 takes “possible” to “comfortable”, which in my mind is a pretty important difference.
The only problem with any of the mobile email software seems to be an inability to handle multiple Exchange accounts, which is understandable. Unfortunately it means that I can’t move my personal email onto our Hosted Exchange cluster, which I wouldn’t mind doing …
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My aunt has been living in France for over 30 years. About 20 years or so ago she bought a lovely house in Normandy (click to enlarge)
It’s up for rent if anyone is interested.
Details below:
Charming stone cottage in a small French village in Normandy near the Orne river (a 10 minute walk away),
Between Falaise and Flers, 50 km from Caen and the Normandy beaches by the A88 and 27 km from Argentan station.
Riding stables and lake nearby.Description: Furnished house with sunny garden
Ground floor: main room (35 m²) with big fireplace and small kitchen
1st floor: 2 bedrooms , small office with fireplace, bathroom and separate toilet.
2nd floor: attic converted into one large bedroom – with beautiful beams.
Sleeps: 7 people.
Heating: Electric radiators.Enclosed garden facing south with a fantastic view of the Orne Valley and surroundings.
The house has been lived in by the owners for the last twenty years and is entirely furnished including cooking utensils, crockery, bed linen, children’s games, books, paintings etc.
It is Ideal for a family with young children, hikers, or people who enjoy the quiet of the country.We would like to rent the house long term and are offering very attractive prices. The charges are all included (water, wood, gas…) except electricity.
Rent for the whole the summer season (from Easter to end of October) : 3000 euros, which works out as 420 euros/month
3 months: 1800 euros
1month: 750 euros
2 weeks: 500 eurosContact: Elizabeth Neylon +33 1 45 57 06 78
Update: You can contact her directly via email, but she is currently travelling and won’t be able to reply until 26th of February
Broadband should be available in theory, but she will be looking into it in more detail (spoke to her this evening on this topic!)
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I generally don’t use Windows on either of my desktops or my laptop. I normally use Mac OSX or Ubuntu Linux, so this kind of message is not only annoying, but kind of pointless:
I wouldn’t mind so much, but as far as I can see you don’t need anything special once you’re actually logged in to the Microsoft Partner portal (I had to remote desktop into a Windows machine to find out!)
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