Grabbing a good domain name is getting harder and harder as the pool of good .COM domain names thins in the raucous ether of everyone with an internet connection wanting a personalized website.
Not every domain name requires a website. In fact, grabbing a domain and then pointing it to an existing website can be an effective means to propagate the idea of your brand beyond a single thought.
The popular way today to release software without accountability is to toss it into the wild as a "Beta Test" -- and then invite the public to break their machines to give you feedback in testing you should've done yourself.
Google made their bones on this unaccountability by continuously "beta testing" what are really fully released products.
Google does not have to provide support or explanation when things go awry or blow up because, after all, "It's only beta!"
The question then becomes how long must something remain in beta in order to be tested and not viewed as taking-advantage-of those doing the testing? Is a year enough of a beta test? Two years?
Gmail has been in beta since April 1, 2004. Will Gmail forever be beta? Or will Gmail one day get the Google stamp of approval that it is ready to stand on its own without the beta backdoor bailout?
We are thrilled to learn of the final demise and ultimate death of Netscape -- even though it is only in browser form and not a company any longer.
Netscape, as a company, was one of the most arrogant entities in the mid-90's as it professed its superiority while sitting on its elegance. As a browser, Netscape did some good things. As the company behind the browser -- Netscape stink, stank, stunk!
Do you believe when you use a search engine online your privacy should be protected when it comes to knowing what you wanted to know?
Do you own your search results or does the search engine "own" your thoughts typed as characters on a screen?
There's an interesting move afoot to federally regulate and control search engine privacy:
Should search engines be subject to the types of regulation now applied to personal data collectors, cable networks, or phone books? In this article, we make the case for some regulation of the ability of search engines to manipulate and structure their results. We demonstrate that the First Amendment, properly understood, does not prohibit such regulation. Nor will such interventions inevitably lead to the disclosure of important trade secrets.
Now the question becomes: "Who do you trust more to protect your private search queries?"
Google? Microsoft? Ask? Yahoo!?
Or the federal government?
The Wayback Machine can bring both pleasure and pain as you reflect back on who you used to be and where you hoped to land in your virtual internet dreams.
One of the hard lessons learned of an early life on the internet is that domain names have great value beyond the ordinary now.
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