Category Archives: News

U. Chicago Professor: The Fundamentals of the Economy are Strong – Really

Rarely, if ever, do I post a simple link to constitute an entire blog entry, but given the past week or so in the financial sector I think this is something that all of you need to read:
New York Times Op-Ed: An Economy You Can Bank On by Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago Economics Professor
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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s Offer, Market Isn’t Fooled

Over the weekend there were rumors that Yahoo! would reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion dollar offer, claiming that Microsoft’s offer “substantially undervalues the company.” Well, Yahoo’s shareholder relations office confirmed that rumor this morning, and it didn’t take Microsoft very long to respond with it’s own press release decrying how “unfortunate” this move is for Yahoo!.
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As I Predicted: Microsoft Moves to Acquire Yahoo!

Well now that I have that damn DNS problem under control I can go ahead and write up my smug, self-congratulatory post on how well my 8  Bold Predictions for 2008 are turning out. Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo! doesn’t sound so insane now, does it?
One kind reader was kind enough to Digg my 8 Bold [...]

Damn Domain Name Forwarding Lag

Apparently the lag-time with AjaxNinja.com’s domain forwarding has not only disabled AjaxNinja.com but it’s also screwed up all of the images on Marketing-Ninja.com. I know the images are broken, just got off of the phone with GoDaddy tech support.
Something got screwed up with my domain name forwarding and as a result all of the domain [...]

AjaxNinja Has Moved to Marketing-Ninja.com

I am by no means ditching the AjaxNinja.com domain name; it’s grown on me and I intend to keep it for as long as I blog. However, I have moved all of my blogging to a new domain name, Marketing-Ninja.com. You will find all of the old content there along with some new content that [...]

India’s Internet Crippled – What are the Implications for the U.S. IT Sector?

Today I got a call from an employer who wanted to set up a lunch meeting to discuss a possible internship; I wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary until my contact dropping the following bombshell on me:
We were outsourcing our test cycle to a firm in India that specializes in this kind of [...]

Visual Studio Finds its Inner Gamer: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Props to Korayem for Stumbling the AddOn Studio for WoW.

It’s not often that I get to mention WoW in the subjects that I blog about on AjaxNinja, but this article practically wrote itself the moment I saw the AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on CodePlex.
What is an addon for World of Warcraft?
If you [...]

Feed Changes for Email Subscribers

I got an email last night from one of my email subcribers last night; I was told that the FeedBurner email feeds are almost unreadable due to the extremly small size of the fonts. Apparently, the default FeedBurner email syndication font sizes are almost illegible; I’ve more than doubled the font size so it should [...]

AjaxNinja Featured on WebProNews

WebProNews featured my piece on 7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Digg on Friday, and I just had to show you guys the awesome media piece that they created for their article:

How cool is that? Check out WebProNews’ article, AjaxNinja Whips Shurikens Into Digg!
On another note, I’m sorry for the delay [...]