Mental notes to myself

It’s a surprising news that eBay is banning Google checkout.
Are they too scared to compete with Google.
Checkout the accepted payments list on eBay.

Payment Services permitted on eBay: Allpay.net, Bidpay, Canadian Tire Money, cash2india, CertaPay, Checkfree.com, hyperwallet,com, Moneybookers.com, Ozpay.biz, Paymate.com.au, Propay.com, XOOM

Payment Services not permitted on eBay: AlertPay.com, anypay.com, AuctionChex.com, AuctionPix.com, BillPay.ie, ecount.com, cardserviceinternational.com, CCAvenue, ecount, e-gold, eHotPay.com, ePassporte.com, EuroGiro, FastCash.com, Google Checkout, gcash, GearPay, Goldmoney.com, graphcard.com, greenzap.com, ikobo.com, Liberty Dollars, Moneygram.com, neteller.com, Netpay.com, Nochex.com, paychest.com, payingfast.com, Payko.com, paypay, Postepay, Qchex.com, rupay.com, scripophily.com, sendmoneyorder.com, stamps, Stormpay, wmtransfer.com, xcoin.com

Silently Bell Sympatico updated their terms and service affective by the May 15,2006 but all the news papers and Slashdot figured it out now a days.
Paragraph 17 of the terms and conditions of Bell Sympatico Service, it says:

User Information; Other Information. Your messages may be the subject of unauthorized third party interception and review. An individual with Internet access can cause, among other things, damage, incur expenses and enter into contractual obligations while on the Internet. All such matters are your sole responsibility. Your Service Provider has no obligation to monitor the Service, any content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks. However, you agree that Your Service Provider reserves the right from time to time to monitor the Service electronically, monitor or investigate content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks, including without limitation bandwidth consumption, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other governmental request from any applicable jurisdiction, or as necessary to operate the Service or to protect itself or others.

That means they’ll tell you to the big brother if you download mp3s from your favorite bittorrent site.
Also by talking to friends I learned that all the ISPs in Canada doing the same thing already but Bell is the first ISP to announce it on their ToS.

I’ve found this interesting article on why the web2.0 applications fail (or will fail)

1. Focus on social instead of personal.
2. They solve too many problems, or try to.
3. They’re about making someone other than the user happy.
4. They sell it the wrong way.
5. Not in it for the long haul.
6. They show too much of what’s going on, and get gamed.
7. They don’t have an underlying business strategy of improving people’s lives.

nicely pointed out by Joshua Porter
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From slashdot:

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has once again scrapped the plan for a new internet “domain” .xxx for pornography. Supporters of the .xxx address suffix argued that it would have helped to protect children and others from accidental exposure to internet pornography, particularly if stronger filters were used to screen out explicit material from other internet domains. Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year to put off introducing a new “.xxx” domain for pornography on the internet. That drew international complaints that the US exercised too much power over the internet and added to a European-backed movement to shift control of the online medium to an international group

Well, I agree.

Joshua Schachter from del.icio.us has really nice notes for the ones that are looking for it.

These are the things to look out for when building a large application on web. Most of them I agree, some of them I don’t. This list also should keep in mind that, real world problems are not that perfect. I marked the ones that I strongly agree with an asterix (*).
I also filtered out the things are specific to del.icio.us from the original text.

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It’s been a while not hearing something new about IE7.
I kind of wait for the RC stage. Until then I decided not to install it. At least without a VMWare.
Think about it, even release versions are buggy in M$ world, I can’t stand the bugs on betas too.

If you are interested here is the new “flashy” intro and download for IE7

I’ve read this interesting email conversation between a recruiter and an engineer.
I loved this guy. Good thinking.
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It seems like del.icio.us is suffering from failing harddrives :).
Excuse the smiley but it seems that because of a power shortage it’s a total shame to take a site like del.icio.us down.
Maybe they would have invested in some redundency.

Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updates will be posted on our blog as we have them.

RSS + bittorent + TV here is Torrentocracy
Nice work…

1 and 1 is now offering $5.99 domain names for .com , .net, .org, .us, .info and .name
also .biz and .ws at $8.99, .cc at $19.99 and .tv at $29.99 and amazingly includes free domain privacy. You can registrer your domain privately.
It also includes

It seems they are trying hard to compete with GoDaddy and Yahoo!

Here is Link: 1 and 1