What Is About.com All About?
by Chris Schroeder, Tuesday, Mar 1, 2005 7:00 AM EST
I WAS OUT ON A lovely
Washington evening, when my BlackBerry began to vibrate repeatedly with
friends and colleagues alike notifying me: The New York Times Co.
acquired About.com for north of $400 million. By some reports, this was
10-15x NEXT year's revenue; 25-30x NEXT year's EBIT. The reactions:
"The bubble is back!"
"Newspapers are dead, so Dow Jones and The New
York Times have to do SOMETHING, and few properties of size are out
there. It's the hail Mary!"
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Firefox fix plugs security holes
By
Steven Musil
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The Mozilla Foundation released on Thursday an update to the Firefox
Web browser to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that would
allow domain spoofing.
The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix, among other bugs, a vulnerability in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), a standard
for handling special character sets in domain names that lets companies
register domain names that appear to be the same in different
languages.
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Tips for Better Blogging - Promote any Product or Service
By John Barbour
People start blogs for all kinds of reasons. Ego. Political comment
or agenda. Staying in touch with family and friends. Marketing. Why did
you start your blog?
If you want your blog to get read, and your
readers to be loyal followers, you had better structure it to their
liking. Here are some tips for better blogging and basic blogging
advice for anyone who wants to promote a product or service using blogs
and RSS.
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