Archive for January, 2008



Last night I attended a small domainer dinner get-together. It was organized by Elliot Silver of Top Notch Domains, whose domaining blog I really recommend for anyone interested in this space.
Over the last 4 months or so I have went from just my personal and business domains to purchasing about 150. Many were as cheap [...]

In life you win some and you loose some, the same goes for getting the wrong president elected. I am not talking about the current one, I am talking about the future one in 2008 in the USA. 
Barack Obama has been soaring in popularity lately, especially among the young demographic, one I belong to I suppose [...]

I haven’t watched The Boiler Room, but seeing a few scenes on YouTube the other day makes me want to watch it.
Here’s an interesting scene of a broker closing a sale. The funny thing is that right next door to us there was a company doing the exact same thing with exact same type of [...]

The season is back after the holdays and it’s that time for breaking new records.
Today our Internet radio network maxed over 90,000 concurrent listeners across all of our properties, public and private alike (yes there are some private).  According to my stats that’s just a little bit over 7 Gbits per second.
Makes those 800GB per month [...]

As someone who’s been very much catching up on a lot of SEO goodness lately, Jeremy’s post definitely rings true to me. Here’s the main excerpt:
SEO’s are like used car salesmen…
1) They can always sell you something.
2) They can never guarantee results.
3) They can not be held accountable.
4) They have a answer for everything.
5) [...]

Seth Godin has a great way of concisely saying the kind of things that ought to be self-evident truths if the rest of the world was any smarter. If you are at all into marketing you should definitely check out Seth’s blog.
I am a great fan of Seth’s and here’s a piece from his blog [...]

I confess, I have a new startup in the works, and it just might be even grander than a popular Internet radio network. I very much hope we’ll finally be unveiling in this first quarter 2008. I’ve had two developers spend many months on it, which for a small business takes a considerable toll on other projects.
I must say [...]

This is a photo of my middle school class, 5th grade back in School 128 in Tbilisi, Georgia. If you don’t know me that well, that’s where I was born and raised until in 1991 at the age of 12 my parents emigrated to USA.

I have most of my fond childhood memories from there and [...]