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Entries from May 2006

LLC on the cheap

May 8th, 2006 · 3 Comments

My LLC papers for Recursive Function finally came in the mail last week. Thank you, Secretary of State Todd Rokita.
I applied through LegalZoom, and found the process pretty quick and painless. And at $206.10, it was much cheaper than our Bottled Software filing several years ago. (I always like it when I spot [...]

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Ponyfish launch

May 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Wow. In the first 24 hours of going live, the Ponyfish site has seen more unique visitors than the FormSpring in the months of March and April combined. New feeds are getting created by the minute, and a good percentage of those users are registering for accounts as well. I even had [...]

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Announcing Ponyfish.com

May 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

OK, I know I mentioned a few days ago that I was putting some finishing touches on another web service, and was thinking about releasing it in the next couple weeks. Well, in the principle of releasing early and often, I’m making Ponyfish public today.
Ponyfish comes from an idea that I’d been tossing around [...]

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MSN vs. Google — I’m not the only one

May 2nd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Apparently I’m not the only one who’s seeing better search results from sites other than Google. I wrote about it a couple weeks ago, and have since found a couple others complaining about the exact same thing:

MSN Search vs. Google: Does Microsoft Like You More Than Google Too?
Google – Providing the Worst Results… on [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Private betas

May 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment

I read about new web application launches frequently, and as you can guess it’s always interesting to me to evaluate what others are building. However, it seems like more and more sites are launching under “private beta” status where you give them your contact information and may or may not receive an access key [...]

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Tags: Business