Scott Yang's Playground

ZDNet: auDA took away a domain from Sydney-based web-business after dispute, with only 24 hours notice, and it wasn’t even that poor guy’s fault! His business lost the domain name because 12 months ago NetRegistry mistakenly registered the dropped domain for them, although the original owner has renewed it. That just sounds dodgy. How can [...]

A few Google weirdness discovered today. See Mum! No PageRank! I was shocked this morning when the SearchStatus Firefox plugin shows the Google PageRank of this blog as — nothing! It was 5 last time I checked which wasn’t that long ago. It wasn’t even a zero — the PageRank bar basically blanked out as [...]

I need more money… This is what I have posted on my Twitter status: Yes. Facebook app Friends for Sale can be addictive, where you make virtual money online by buying/selling your friends as “pets”. No I don’t aim to become a millionaire but I do have a collector’s goal — collecting all my FOCUS [...]

DailySearchCast: Microsoft Wants to Buy Yahoo! Some of the best commentary from Danny Sullivan the Godfather of “search” on the whole Microsoft offering $45b to buy Yahoo event.

If you google for Chinese New Year right now, you’ll see the AdWords engineers trying to be creative. This does not occur with other search terms. Thanks for reminding me that it is indeed the Chinese New Year eve today!

Went to the Aussie Bloggers forums this morning and spotted this post on an urgent WordPress upgrade (yes, I usually troll in the forums early in the morning instead of reading RSS feeds). WordPress 2.3.3 has been released fixing a few minor bugs and a security issue. Yes, again — less than two months after [...]