Scott Fish

Canada Community Generates 90% of Power Via Solar

Propeller Relaunch Fails Miserably

Propeller.com, Aol’s 2nd try at social media, after netscape.com was thrown into the dupster, relaunched today with a new look and feel. Miserably Failure isn’t only being used to describe the old-school “google bomb” any more. Here’s the home page of Propeller.com right now: So what are others saying? Top Story on New Propeller Says it All - There [...]

Moniker Releases Affiliate Summit Domain List

Google Adding a Feather to their cap: Digg.com

Google is reportedly in talks with Digg (again) to acquire the social news site.  Google would be adding a very nice addition to their Google News property that was recently touted as being worth nearly $100 million by Google’s VP, Marissa Mayer.  Currently Google news shows no ads, will that change with a digg integration? [...]

It doesn’t add up WaMu, Fannie & Freddie, Wachovia

Apple’s Stock getting Hammered in After Hours Trading

Macintosh and iPod sales helped boost Apple Inc.’s fiscal third-quarter earnings 31 percent, beating Wall Street’s expectations, but investors pummeled the stock after Apple said profit margins contracted and the company issued soft guidance for the current quarter. Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Monday it earned $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per share, 11 cents ahead of Wall [...]

Rush of wind power to hit the Northwest

Utilities and independent developers are poised to more than triple the amount of wind power in the Northwest, a huge increase that underscores the region’s push for renewable energy. “It’s phenomenal,” said Elliot Mainzer, a transmission manager with the federal Bonneville Power Administration. “It’s more than we expected.” Evidence of the wind rush shows up in a [...]

Think Our Inflation is bad: Zimbabwe releases $100 Billion bank note

Seriously… what would you buy with $100 Billion? Well, you could buy a Lexus or put a down payment on a house, the $USD equivalent is about $50,000 Grand. Zimbabwe will introduce a $100-billion bank note as the nation continues to struggle with the world’s highest inflation rate. The latest addition to the country’s currency will begin circulating [...]

Deal of the Day: Buying Nob Hill for $4 bucks

This evening I completed the purchase of NobHill.info for a whole $4 bucks. I’m not a huge .info fan but when I saw that this geo-neighborhood domain was in a list for $4 domains, I had to grab it. Nob Hill is a district in San Francisco, but it’s also home to some of the richest and [...]

Investing in POT

Lost in yesterday’s excitement was news that Canpotex [remember - that is an alliance of Potash (POT), Mosaic (MOS), and Agrium (AGU)] has raised spot prices for some Asian buyers to $1000/tonne. The Russians have joined as well. Notice a trend I hope? [Mar 27: Canpotex Potash Contracts Secured with India @ $625] [Apr 2: Potash Makers [...]

Watching More Videos Online

Comscore just said that Americans watched 12 billion videos in May, up 45 percent over last year. Say that again: 12 billion. It’s a mass medium, still: the mass of niches comes to life. Some more video stats: Google has a 35 percent market share. Fox is a very distant second with 6.4 percent. Hulu debuts [...]

Texas Utility Approves $5 Billion Dollars for Wind Development

Texas is already the national leader in wind power, and supporters say the latest move will bring more wind energy projects, create jobs, reduce energy costs and reduce pollution.  The Texas Utility group has approved $4.97 billion dollars for development of transmission lines and other infrastructure in the Wind industry. The Public Utility Commission, however, didn’t [...]

10 Largest US Buyouts by International Companies

The following list ranks the largest acquisitions of U.S. companies by international firms, according to Thomson Reuters. InBev NV’s  $52 billion agreement to buy Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc , which would create the world’s largest beer maker, ranks as the second-largest, behind the 1999 purchase of AirTouch Communications Inc by Vodafone Group Plc. BUYER                          TARGET                    PRICE (excludes debt) 1. [...]

Firefox 3 Tool: Snap Links Plugin for Firefox 3

One of my favorite tools for firefox has been a plugin called snap links.  Since the Firefox 3 update, the plugin hasn’t been working and I’ve been looking for one that works on firefox 3.  I have found the perfect update for the snaplinks plugin: you can download it here.

Is Yahoo looking at Demand Media?

When Richard Rosenblatt sold MySpace, he was onto something big, and he knew it.  So he sold off MySpace and moved onto his next big project, Demand Media.  Today Demand Media is rumored to be under Yahoo’s microscope as a possible purchase target. Demand Media is banking about $250 Million per year, which would create a [...]

RIM.jobs - Good one Research In Motion

One of my friends tipped me off to the fact that Blackberry maker, Research In Motion, is using RIM.jobs to forward to their career page.   Annnddd.. I think we’ll just leave this blog post at that…

My $4/day Isn’t Enough: Starbucks to cut up to 12,000 jobs, close 600 stores

Starbucks Corp announced today it plans to close 600 underperforming stores and eliminate as many as 12,000 full- and part-time positions. Howard Schultz, the coffee chain’s founder and chief executive, retook the helm in January and quickly announced plans to shutter 100 underperforming outlets. With U.S. sales growth slowing, he slashed plans for store openings and [...]

GoogleAffiliateNetwork.com Registered to Yahoo-Inc?

Google just announced that they’re going to changing the DoubleClick Perfomics network into the Google Affiliate Network. So Why is GoogleAffiliateNetwork.com registered to gperformics@yahoo.com & domain.tech@yahoo-inc.com?

JetskiRentalsCalifornia.com For Sale

JetskiRentalsCalifornia.com is for sale - this name makes enough to pay for it’s self many times over during the summer time.  Please get in touch with me if you’re interested if owning this great category+geo domain! (that’s not me, by the way )

Google Affiliate Network Launches - DoubleClick Performics Scrapped

Google has launched their own affiliate network, scrapping the DoubleClick Performics brand and creating the google affiliate network.  This is a very strong sign that Google will be announcing a sale of the Performics brand very soon.  It looks like they are keeping the affiliate part, however. Here’s the email that I received about the google [...]

Carbon Sciences’ Green Carbon Takes Care of CO2

What’s the next big investment idea that is gaining steam, or should I say… Carbon? Carbon Sciences is a company is Santa Barbara, CA that is that is putting a spin on the problem of green house gases. The company is taking carbon and treating it with low-cost technology that combines captured CO2 with water and [...]

MissionViejo.org For Sale - GEO Domain 100k Population

MissionViejo.org is for sale. Mission Viejo is a city in California with 97,997 people as of 2006.  Presumably, it’s over 100k now. The .com owner is asking $100,000. The .net owner wont sell. The city of Mission Viejo uses… CityOfMissionViejo.org. MissionViejo.org is currently semi-built out and has decent rankings across the 3 major search engines. If you’re interested in purchasing this [...]

Trend Spotting: Trend Watching Tools for Keyword Research

Keeping up with the latest trends used to be as easy as turning on the TV or reading your daily newspaper.  The world moves at a very fast pace – today, trends change as quickly as Google changes their Algorithm. So how do you keep up with the latest keywords that people are searching for? I have [...]

General Motors’ Market Value is at a 53 Year Low

At one time, General Motors was considered the pre-eminent US corporation, a giant among giants. But now, on news that Goldman Sachs reduced the company’s rating to “sell”, GM’s shares (NYSE:GM - News) have plummeted to less than $12, the lowest level since 1955. That means the world’s largest auto maker has a stock market value of [...]

Mergers & Acquisitions drop 35% to $1.6 Trillion in 1st Half

Mergers and acquisitions  are the lifeblood vehicle for investors.  M&A activity in the first half of the year was down 35% - down to roughly $1.579 trillion. Investment bankers are bracing for more job cuts as volumes fail to recover from their first-quarter tumble, according to preliminary Thomson Reuters numbers released today, and the outlook remains [...]