Squeak of the Week

Entries from December 2008

How GoDaddy Profits from Expired Domains

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Scottsdale, Arizona based The Go Daddy Group, which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is warehousing its customers’ expired domain names and profiting from them.

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Google: nativeclient

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps.

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The Doghouse

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments

JC Penney has a not too subtle suggestion for men on how to stay out of the doghouse this holiday.

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Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Already today you've used at least one product from a company that, at one time, worked for the Nazis. Now, in the name of not getting sued, we'd like to make it clear that we're not accusing any of the below companies of still being in bed with the Third Reich. All of them, to our knowledge, have long disavowed Hitler's regime as being both monstrous and no longer profitable.

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Pirates vs. Ninjas: Who would win?

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

In September, Google announced support for searching in pirate in time for the rum-filled celebrations. Now they consider whether to take on Ninja search.

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