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Short Ignition Descriptors. I’ve been doing a bunch of introduction mail lately. Here are I think the best introductions for later use of what I do over there…just putting here to clip in for later Two line email introduction Rich Tong is a partner at Ignition, an early-stage fund based in Seattle (Rich was Vice…

Who Will Buy O2?. Some commentary from the UK about O2… O2 is a very-badly run company. The decision making is confused and power so diluted that there is no strategy or direction. The company, like BT, is so self-absorbed that people there don’t think of their rivals in business as being their opposite number…

Google News. It is amazing how far you can push free text search information. This is beta of Google’s real time search of news is pretty amazing. Those folks over there continue to amaze me. Makes you think about how much more there is left to do in search and indexing and how lightweight systems…

AddPro – Submission. My poor sad sack friend, Adrian has a great web site, but it isn’t even indexed on Google. Found a free submitter that puts him into at least 20 search engine and probably spams his name everywhere. At least maybe he’ll get indexed by the link from this entry 🙂

Mavic Technical Manuals. It is very hard to find the Mavic technical manuals online for bike parts because it is for dealers only and is password protected. Turns out however that the various PDFs are still crawled by google, so you can get to them with a search. Here is the one on the Ksyrium…

Sheldon Brown Bike Advice, Lickton’s. I find Sheldon and Branford to be the two best sources on the Internet. There was recently a story about Sheldon in Bike magazine and it is true he knows an amazing amount. Very responsive on mail too. I highly recommend any of these small local shops. You can pretty…

Naptheon build wireless application for Newport News. One of my buddies, Ty Carlson over at Microsoft dropped me a note about this. Pretty interesting vertical application and use of wireless

USATODAY.com – Cell phone users flip for AOL instant messaging. Wow, 500K users added per month doing IM on cell phones. Pretty amazing. An interesting trend that shows how powerful IM, SMS and email can be.

Select Audio Reports, Iraq Hearings: NPR Special Coverage. OK, I’m a news geek and back in 1991, you had to listen to a radio. Now you can hear it all online. INteresting to here the different POVs

Search Engine Submission Tips. My poor friend

VentureWire Index. The chart shows the 90-day trailing average of the amount invested in venture-capital deals each day for the 90 days preceding today. The daily numerical index () is an index of the amount of private equity invested yesterday, with the percent change being the difference between today’s 90-day trailing index, and the 90-day…

Upcoming phones Carriers are pretty bad at previewing what is coming. Here are some sites that I use to see what is up World GSM Cellular Phones. A top google hit. This site has lots of the world and other phones that are only available overseas. For instance, the drool is on for the next…

BIKEMAN’s On-Line Store: DERAILLEUR CABLE SETS. Just a note for myself. I need a new derailleur cable set. The ones on the bike are too short now that I blew up my carbon handlebars 🙁

Second Annual Weblog Awards. Ok, I’m off to find some great blogs now that mine is basically stabilized. Here is one spot that I’m looking at. Webloggers. Best Weblog webring. Movable Type. Hmm. Blogger was nominated. I’ll ahve to try this. Loobylu. Best Australian or New zealand weblog Weblog Wannabe. Best Asia weblog PlasticBag.org. Best…

Welcome to our Wireless World. Here is another website with data on cell phone and the plans.

speedup.tk A cool tool

WWW.K-LITE.TK – KaZaA Lite. KaZaA & KaZaA Lite Add-ons FastTrack Accelerator – Attempts to “find more sources” for idling downloads on your KaZaA & KaZaA Lite “Transfers” list. The FastTrack Accelerator seeks out other KaZaA users sharing the same file and attempts to download immediately. By using this tool, you’ll notice every file you attempt…

Zeropaid.com – KaZaA Lite

WWW.K-LITE.TK – KaZaA Lite

PowWeb – “The perfect hosting solution”. Will have to find a rating system for hosters. This site is advertised on hitbox.com. Nice thing is that it is $15/month and has 250MB, domain, FrontPage extensions, MySQL and PHP4. HitBox Outsourced Web Analytics. Google shows this to be the most used real time web statistics tools. Now,…

Thermos Nissan Wide Mouth Snack Jar JMG300. We don’t get hot lunches at our school, so Connie found these nifty Nissan Thermos. They are pretty amazing and although costly, they seem to work well. I sure hope they don’t lose them!

Ten Things I Hate About You – release date March 31, 1999. OK, I hate to admit that there are actually teen flicks that I admire, but here’s one that reminds me of Say Anything, one of my top favorites. Also has a great soundtrack. Not exactly the most rewarding film ever, but what the…

Mnemo-zine. This is my good buddy, Rob Bennett’s weblog. Great looking and it is what Radio can do for you. Hmmm. Should look into that tool too.

free php / cgi / mysql hosting directory. Here is another one that even has ratings. These are the five star ones… Hosters PHP MySQL Space Popularity Portland Communications PHP4 Yes 15 46370 CoolFreePages PHP4 Yes 50 35510 CoolFreeHosts PHP4 Yes 30 20855 Tripod PHP4 Yes 50 11888

Free PHP Hosting :: PHP/MYSQL Web Hosting Reviews :: The Best Spot to Search and Compare Free PHP Web Hosts.. An of course, there is actually an entire site dedicated to the topic of free PHP Hosting sties. Wow. I love the Internet. How can folks afford to do this. I see that some have…

Just $5/month! – Tranquil Hosting(tq). I need a web hoster that has PHP4 and Mysql support. These are the folks that cafelog.com were using for a while. Wow, great prices. $25/month gets you to 2GB of disk or $15/month gets you 250MB and PHP4 and Mysql. Only issue is that frontpage extensions aren’t supported, so…

tb-standalone – Standalone TrackBack. Wow, trackback and pings are a great idea that blogger doesn’t seem to have. You can basically incorporate entries across a bunch of blogs with trackback and know who is linked to you. Here is a standalone tool that does this for you via a CGI script.

Blogger archive script generator. Very cool a script generator so that you can get the archives to go latest first, etc. Nice work Phil!