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Mint: Free online personal finance

October 2, 2007

I really like mint. Not the web stats app, the new personal finance app. It’s extremely simple to use, automatically pulling in information from your bank and credit card accounts, updating itself when you’re not even using it.
It’s completely free and smartly monetized through mutually beneficial offers from the site’s partners — telling [...]

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MaxMind minFraud detects fraud more reliably

June 25, 2007

A few months of testing and the verdict is in: MaxMind minFraud flags more transactions made with stolen credit cards as high risk than my own fraud scoring code. minFraud does a lot I can’t: Checking the bank BIN location against the billing address, the location of the customer’s phone number against the billing address [...]

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Blowing things out of proportion

April 18, 2007

Last night, I moved TargetedVisitors.info and VisitorBoost.com to one of the new servers. They were some of the last sites to be moved — they’re so critical to me that I’ll let the other sites test out the new servers first. One of the scripts that runs on crontab every 10 minutes didn’t take the [...]

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Entrepreneurs: Go to College and Get a Job

January 25, 2007

A lot of people in technology fields consider themselves or strive to be entrepreneurs — to work for themselves, seeking out opportunities to create new value and profit. They’re self-motivated hard workers trying to grow businesses and offer new products and services. There are thousands of web designers and developers out there, many still in [...]