Ade in Business

The enterprising journey of a web developer

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WSOP: The short version

July 31st, 2006 · 5 Comments

I’m out.
I lasted about 11 1/2 hours, which was good enough to beat about 1/2 the field, but still nowhere close to the money. I’m certainly not happy about busting out, but it was otherwise an incredible experience.
I had the unfortunate pleasure of being two to the left of Daniel Negreanu for all but two [...]

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More numbers

June 15th, 2006 · No Comments

After doing the math on the number of combinations for randomly generated passwords, I thought about TinyURL, a great service that’s been around for a long time. You enter any really long URL, and it creates a short one like http://tinyurl.com/XYZ that redirects to the original URL. It’s a pretty simple solution, but [...]

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Clever viral marketing campaign

May 26th, 2006 · Comments Off

It’s no secret that blogs are a great advertising medium. The trick for companies is finding out how to attract the attention of bloggers to get them to talk about their product.
PokerStars, an online poker site, has figured out a way by offering up around $40k of prizes to bloggers via a free tournament. [...]

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