I just got some tokens for Joost to give away. If you want ONE please comment here with your email and name or contact me at feedback [at] 5tags.com. Wait a second, I can’t just give them to anybody; how about we guess a number.
Simply type your name, email, and your number guess between 1 and 26. Here is an example:
Steve Jobs
steve@apple.com
10
The first 2 invites are gone. Please post your details below so I can send more out when I get some.
After waiting a significant length of time, I have finally been invited to Joost! I’ll be sure to do a full review after I get the hang of it.
So you’re digging around on Digg.com and you come across a great story but you havn’t fully made up your mind if it is digging material or if you should just pass it by. Maybe the story only has a few diggs and you don’t have time to search to see if it is a duplicate. Maybe it’s just one of those things you want to check out when you are our of the office or on a break. You may even come across an amazing story and the site is down because of the massive traffic it is receiving. What can you do about this?
Currently you could “bookmark it” in your web browser or maybe add it to a website like Del.icio.us for future reference but that just doesn’t cut it! Digg needs an option where you can bookmark stories or in the spirit of the whole digging scheme, you could add it to your pile.
You could simply click “Add to Pile” and the story would show up in a public bookmark area call the pile. At “The Pile”cop you could “digg it” “remove it” or just leave it in the pile for future reference. Since I suppose this would lower the number of diggs on stories, it may be wise to make some sort of a “compost” thing where the stories that are in the pile that are older than say 14 days are composted back into the “soil”. This would promote the “digging” tool again.
I would like to hear feedback on this idea or maybe some suggestions. I believe it would be great if Digg implemented this feature, but do you?
Several years ago the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) added a fee to domain registrations in order for their organization to balance the books. The fee was 25 cents and was to be added to every single domain purchase. Some companies swallowed the cost and other, like Go Daddy, added the fee seperate from the cost of the domain name, which made for some misleading prices.
In a recent email to Dreamhost, ICANN told them that registrar fees were changing this year, from 25 cents per domain plus $3.8MM shared among all registrars (based on their size), DOWN to just 22 cents per domain and $.8MM shared!
At first I was really happy about this because I assumed that registration fees would go down slightly but as I think of it, I would rather fees go up! If registration fees were $100 per year, we would never see ridiulous domain names and websites would have some more thought. The extra money could go to an organization that could develop new technologies for the internet or go for something to do with hosting or name servers.
On the other hand, what does ICANN really need money for? We are paying them a fee to “administer assigned names and numbers”. How hard can that be when everything is already layed out? Over the past few years there biggest accomplishments were approving terrible TLDs like .mobi, .info, .museum, .biz, .coop, .aero, .name, and .pro. As Dreamhost said it:
I don’t mean to be blunt, but the only purpose to ANY new gTLD these days is the transfer of wealth from trademark holders to domain squatters, registry operators, and ICANN. After all, the ONLY people who get domains in all these TLDs are large companies who just absolutely need to own every TLD for every brand they oversee!
He also pointed out:
- Even though the number of domains has only risen about 30% in the last year, ICANN’s total budget is rising from $23MM to $34MM, almost 50%!
- Their payroll for 2000-2001 was $1.2MM for 15 people, an average of $80,000 a person. In 2005-2006 it was $7.3MM for 59 people, an average of $124,000 a person! And for 2006-2007 it is $12.4MM for 89 people, an average of over $140,000 a year each! Which is why I’m quitting my day job and going to become an intern at ICANN!
- Their budget for board meetings and travel went from $3.8MM in 2005-2006 up to $5.9MM for 2006-2007! That’s $500,000 a month! Now, it does look like they have a lot of meetings… but maybe they could combine just a few of those and just have say, one a quarter? Also, instead of having all their meetings in crazy international locales (San Juan, Lisbon, São Paulo, Marrakech, Amsterdam, in the car, their parent’s basement, frat houses), they could save money by just getting tickets for the same flight on Space Ship One. That’d also save them money on getting high!
It is reported on ThinkSecret that Apple is making great progress on their next version of OS X, Leopard. It is rumored that Leopard was ship as early as March, 2007! Along with the release of Leopard, iLife 07 and iWork 07 should be available.
As late as mid-2006, Apple had planned to release iLife ‘07 and iWork ‘07 in January at Macworld Expo, as the company has done in previous years. But discontent over the quality of some of the new additions to the software, including Apple’s first standalone spreadsheet application, saw the release pushed back. At the same time, according to sources, Apple made the decision to wrap Leopard-specific features into the new iLife and iWork suites, originally planned for future releases of the software, possibly to further encourage sales of all three products.
On a personal note, the release of Leopard and iLife 07, will spark me to purchase a new Macbook Pro. As we get closer to the date, I will talk about that more.
The current theme is about 90% complete. Over the past two days I have been browsing the website from different browsers and devices and have noticed a few things that are not working correctly. These include:
I still have to go through each post and change the images to fit but all in all the new style is working well with the content. Right now I am working on a mobile version of the website that is make especially for the Nintendo DS web browser. If I have some time to make the plugin “good”, I will release it for the public, again.
The following article was written by Lloyd Alter, Toronto. The article is available at Treehugger.com
We have tried to calculate the true cost of producing and transporting bottled water before, and have come up with just vague approximations, which did not take the production of the bottle into account. Over at Triple Pundit, Sustainability Engineer and MBA Pablo Päster has done a thorough and exhaustive study of the cost of bring a litre of Fiji Water to America. He starts with the production of the bottle in China, taking the bottle blanks to Fiji, and confirming that it takes more water to make the bottle than it actually holds. He then transports the bottle to the States by ship. Not even including the distribution in the States, the numbers are absolutely staggering. In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji water consumed 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) .849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds).
Twenty-six times as much water used to make it than you actually drink. As much fuel to make it as there is water in the bottle. Staggering is an understatement.
For the next 1 to 2 months I will be stuck on a Windows PC. During this period of time I will still have to design websites and learn Ruby. Writing code is one of the most simple tasks you can do on a computer but any programmer will tell you that notepad just doesn’t cut it. On OSX there is a great application that you can buy for around $60 called Textmate. Textmate speeds up development because it auto completes what you type. For instance you can set the DOCTYPE with only a few key strokes.
There really isn’t been a solid code editor for Windows, until now! A small firm has just released the alpha version of InType. InType is a new lightweight, fast, and beautiful text editor. After playing with it for several hours it is very evident that it is not complete but you can see the developers have the correct ideas.
Cons:
Benifits:
I suggest that you check this out if you are stuck on Windows or don’t want to shell out $60 for TextMate. It still has a long ways to go to be considered a TextMate replacement or equivalent but it is sure a step in the right direction for Windows text editors.
I have been mastering Wii Sports and beating almost everybody at Mario Kart. Now I want to challenge YOU! Unfortunately Nintendo makes it difficult to play friends online with the Wii and DS lite but I will go ahead and post my friend codes in order to find people to challenge.
Wii: 4640568731688668
Mario Kart: 068799034250
Please Contact me using the Contact Form if you want to play Mario Kart so that I can turn it on.
I am currently using Dreamhost to host 5tags.com. Dreamhost is an excellent hosting company with plans from $7.99 per month. They plans come with:
After looking at those plan specs and you think you need more, well there are higher plans but that plan right there is $7.99/month! BUT WAIT! For all 5tag.com readers you are eligible for $50 off all hosting plans with the coupon code “50offallplans“! Let’s calculate that out.
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Sean | 
02 28th, 2007| 