Working at a global corporation

August 26 1 Comment Category: Personal

It’s interesting working at a global corporation for a while. Half my product team is in the US, half is in India, and more are being hired in China. It’s something else to be in a live meeting, looking at and discussing the exact same lines of code on our screens, while hearing the traffic [...]

An update on fraud with PayPal

August 18 1 Comment Category: Business, Security

So far, so good. It will take at least 2-3 months to find out whether anything’s actually changed after switching to PayPal as the sole payment provider for new customers; stolen credit cards used without a PayPal account won’t show up on the rightful owner’s billing statement any faster. But I can say that the [...]

Paprika

May 26 1 Comment Category: Personal

It’s nice to see good anime make its way onto an American theater screen. I just saw Paprika which opened in a few cities today; in this area as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. It’s from the director of Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paranoia Agent. I found it entertaining and fun all [...]

The StumbleUpon Experiment

January 04 36 Comments Category: Marketing

Do people “stumbling” across the net have their wallets open while doing so? Will they stop when they see a commercial site or keep on “stumbling” by? That was today’s quick experiment: advertising through StumbleUpon.

Improving Automated Fraud Detection

November 15 5 Comments Category: Development, Stumbling

I released the latest version of VisitorBoost.com and TargetedVisitors.info to the public. They are my two brands for reselling website advertising services; my most active sites receiving approximately 7,000 orders this year. The latest release included an entirely rewritten account management area, shopping cart and checkout process, as well as new advertising services. Customers can [...]