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Friday, November 18, 2005

Avoid online auction fraud with gumshoo, a free eBay shopping engine.

This week, gumshoo.com was officially released as a beta product and I'm really proud of it. For the first time ever, eBay shoppers have a resource that is aimed directly at making their shopping experience safer and more efficient. With the introduction of gumshoo.com, every eBay shopper can be an expert eBay shopper. That's because gumshoo analyzes every eBay listing you look at, automatically. Gumshoo helps you avoid online auction fraud. It looks for dozens of warning signs and let's you know when it thinks there might be a problem. Better still, it tells you how to proceed.

As a former eBay employee, I know that this is just the kind of information eBay buyers really want. I also know it's just the kind of information eBay will never provide. That's because eBay gets paid when sellers list items. It is in their best interest to make sure listings don't get pulled and that items sell. Fortunately for eBay buyers, gumshoo.com does not directly serve eBay sellers. Gumshoo is committed solely to the eBay buyer:

I encourage you to try gumshoo today. Stop online auction fraud.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Raise your hand if you hate thread crapping on blogs. What I mean by that are the comments people leave that say, "I really like your site. Come visit SuperPokerPorn.com!"

Stop the insanity, please.

Microsoft aims to enter supercomputer market

So, this is interesting. Apparently Microsoft is getting ready to enter the "supercomputer" market with a new software offering. And I quote:

The world's largest software maker will offer a version of Windows called "Compute Cluster Server 2003"


Hmm... isn't it 2005? Are they trying to let everyone know they are entering this market 2 years behind schedule? I think it's time for a name change.