Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Google’s stock soars higher

Google is quickly expanding day by day and for every day that passes they are worth a little bit more! Will this continue forever? SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc.’s market value briefly surpassed $100-billion (U.S.) for the first time Friday, its stock scaling new heights after an earnings and revenue spike that astonished investors. The on-line search leader’s shares traded as

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MSN Customer Experience Validation

Microsoft is expanding their pool of beta participants for the Customer Experience Validation Program and the MSN Beta Program. If you are already a MSN Butterfly there is no need to sign up for CEV or the MSN Beta Program since you are already enrolled. What is a Customer Experience Validation program? A CEV program is a group of key

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Flock Developer Preview

Just received my email to download the Flock Developer Preview, and I’m testing it out right now just before I go to bed, so far so good it looks very nice! Hello friends of Flock, We can’t wait any longer. Today, we are pleased to invite you to try what will very soon become the Flock Developer Preview. “Developer Preview?”

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Google PageRank Update October 2005

Google has stared their Pagerank and Backlink Exports; I have archived the following results: http://www.msndiscussion.com has PageRank 0/10. http://www.darrenstraight.sizzly.com has PageRank 1/10. http://www.extrememaps.net has PageRank 2/10. http://www.darrenstraight.com has PageRank 3/10. http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog has PageRank 4/10. Check your page rank here: http://www.pagerank.net

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Check your Hotmail Inbox for your chance to WIN!

If you’re from the UK then here’s another great contest from MSN, Good Luck! 😀 Check in for a chance to WIN with Hotmail MSN Hotmail wants to reward you for something you do everyday checking your Hotmail e-mail! Just sign up for the Check in to WIN promotion from MSN Hotmail and you could win great prizes! Once you

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Google Drops Gmail Name in Britain

Woooow now this is News! Due to an ongoing trademark dispute in the United Kingdom, Google has changed the name of its free Web mail service from Gmail to “Google Mail.” The switch was made after the company failed to come to an agreement with financial research company Independent International Investment Research (IIIR). IIIR offers an e-mail service called G-Mail

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MSN Mobile Beta Closed: Please complete the closing surveys

Today I received confirmation that the MSN Mobile Beta has now closed, what a shame, well at least I still have Mail Beta to Beta Test! Hi Darren, We would like to thank you for your participation in this phase of the MSN Mobile Beta. Your feedback, in the form of bugs, survey answers, newsgroup posts or online chat, has

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Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5231 (Community Technical Preview 2) Review

Paul Thurrott’s has now updated his Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5231 (Community Technical Preview 2) Review page on his SuperSite for Windows. After years of silence and doubts, Microsoft’s Windows Vista project is finally moving ahead with confidence. In September, Microsoft released its first Community Technical Preview (CTP) version of Windows Vista (see my review), a post-Beta 1 (or, depending