“Customer Intimacy”
This vile jargon arrived yesterday in the daily email splooge from CXO Media.
The term is uncomfortable and a little creepy. Is customer intimacy like airplane intimacy or subway intimacy or prison intimacy? It sounds like a windowdressing term, used by companies to mean the exact opposite of the plain language.
What says CXO [...]

One of the intelligent voices in domain names, Bret Fausett, has launched Name Brief, a new blog about, yes, domains.
Bret already has a great blog, Lextext, but this new venture is a different beast. Everything about Lextext asserts its not-for-profitness; everything about Name Brief lets you know that it’s a money-making [...]

Optimize my Adwords campaign? One click? How long has this been here? What will the God of Search advise?
Well, I’ll be a mummified monk!

Quoth the oracle:
“Your campaign exceeds the limit of keywords and ad groups that the Campaign Optimizer can accommodate …”
But, see, I have a only a few thousand keywords, [...]

I’m a fan of maps. Done well, nothing conveys information as well, or shows the connections between things as quickly, or brings clarity beyond the power of words.
The clever people over at Information Architects Japan have almost done it right. Sadly, they’ve dripped globs of annoying hipness on top of what’s [...]

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee yesterday approved something called the Patent Reform Act of 2007, which closely tracks a similar bill passed by the Senate committee last week. Big Pharma, manufacturing, and biotech had come together under the umbrella of something called the Coalition for 21st Century Profit Protection Patent Reform to oppose [...]

North American Professional sports teams, that is. A nice list compiled by Wise Geek.
Tags: domain names, sports teams, sports domain names, sport domain names

Ever think, “If only I could just bring myself to do it, I know I could make money with this ultra-cheesy idea”?
Well, it just got a lot easier to make that leap to real profitability. However cheesy your idea is, you can still hold your head high at cocktail parties. [...]

There are only two undelegated top-level country-code domains, aside from those darkened by colonial diktat. One of them, .KP, the TLD of North Korea, is in the tender grip of the Dear Leader — enough said.
Western Sahara (.EH) is another matter. The nearest thing they have to a paranoid strongman who hates the [...]