Universal Wishlists: A Lesson in Open Marketing

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Universal Wishlist Review
I’m not a big shopper, especially when it comes to traditional brick-and-morter stores, but the internet marketer in me loves new features that make online shopping more pleasant. Such is Amazon’s new Universal Wishlist feature. (OK, it’s not that new, but it’s still awesome.)
I love Amazon’s Universal Wishlist because it allows me to [...]

Software for Starving Students 2007.01 — RELEASED

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Here’s the press release we sent out:
The 2007.01 release of Software for Starving Students is now available for download.
Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a [...]

Moving a Site with Apache Redirects

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

My boss, Paul Allen (the lesser) asked me to blog about how I redirected his entire blog site to new domain without losing traffic. So at the risk of boring some of my more technical readers, but also in the name of retaining my job, here goes. :)
Before the Move
First, the part I didn’t do. [...]

SSS PageRank

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

The PageRank for Software for Starving Students (via Google’s toolbar) went clear from 0 to 5 with the latest data update. That’s pretty indicative of the almost immediate success the project has enjoyed. The site has only been up since the very end of December but has had some really incredible growth. Just check out [...]

SSS is a Hit!

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

A few days ago, Dave posted about Software for Starving Students on Digg, and the downloads started coming immediately. With well over 20,000 downloads the last time I checked (a couple of days ago), the project has become a major success. We’ve transferred over 11 terabytes of data and our seeders have held up fine, [...]