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Customer service is not being sold crap
A couple weekends ago I registered and launched a domain for a client through GoDaddy. I’ve gone through this process several times before, usually without a hitch. Sometimes getting site hosting setup and jumping through other hoops takes nearly 24 hours, so after buying and setting up the domain, I went to bed.
I woke up the next morning and tested the URL.
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AP goes mobile with investment
- AP puts money into Verve — Verve provides mobile services for news companies. I don’t get why media firms wouldn’t just bring this in-house, although a third-party platform may be useful, like Brightcove is for video, etc. This alone will not save newspapers.
- Webcasts are boring — I’m glad I’m not the only one not on the newspaper Webcast bandwagon.
- China now largest user of Web — The behemoth grows larger and the implications are huge. With more users, China may slowly push how the Web grows, albeit behind a big stone wall.
- MPAA to create online guide for legit places to download movies Industry research indicates many struggle with differentiating legitimate sources from illegal ones. The more tech savvy of us “scoff,” but it is plausible.
- Yahoo to reimburse users for DRM-protected music — somehow — Another DRM scheme fails
- College textbooks being pirated Quote the NYT: “THE e-book is wrapped with digital rights management, which, history indicates, will be broken sooner or later…”