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WTF is wrong with hosted gmail?

I can’t log in to either of my hosted gmail accounts. Anyone else? UPDATE: I contacted gmail support and apparently they occasionally lock accounts due to suspicious activity. I think I had two different hosted gmail accounts open in tabs in the same browser. Very suspicious. Their suggestion: contact them. The response: occasionally we lock […]

August 14, 2007 | Technology | No comments

An ode to the end of Facebook

I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted. With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates. Our love of Facebook is duly recanted. We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.

July 30, 2007 | Randomness, Rants, Tech News, Technology | No comments

How to record a remote podcast

A quick article about how to record a remote interview and how to fix the audio levels after the interview. I got a few questions about the equipment I used to record the podcast interview with Tony yesterday. I recorded it remotely using Skype – Tony was in West Seattle and I’m in Sammamish. We […]

July 26, 2007 | Technology | No comments

Configuring MySQL and Apache for a faster blog

I logged onto my blog this morning and it wouldn’t load. I tried to ping the server and it was still up. Then I tried ssh’ing into the server and it connected. I hit reload again in my browser and starting mumbling WTF. Then I ran ‘uptime’ on the server and got something like this: […]

July 25, 2007 | Technology | No comments

The Web

This little guy quietly spun this masterpiece while I was snoozing on the couch below him last night – and he got me thinking about The Web and what the word really means these days. Perhaps I’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for too long now, but it’s beginning to mean: Design User interfaces SEO […]

July 22, 2007 | Randomness, Technology | No comments

World-wide city database and other (free) geospatial data

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is one of my favorite data sources – it’s also one of my favorite names for any government agency. The agency provides a database of world-wide features which I use as a data source for Geojoey.com’s landmark search feature (top right of the screen). These guys are selling the equivalent […]

July 20, 2007 | Code, Technology | 4 comments

Programming language choices for entrepreneurs

I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails. I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better […]

July 17, 2007 | Code, Startups, Technology | No comments

Saving server costs with Javascript using distributed processing

I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment. Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have […]

July 16, 2007 | Code, Innovation, Startups, Technology | No comments

Competitive intelligence tools

In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business. Archive.org One of my favorites! Use […]

July 16, 2007 | SEO, Startups, Technology | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.