Monthly Archives: January 2008

MySpace wins UK domain name that pre-dated its service • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/29/myspace_wins_domain/

From the page: “Social networking company MySpace has won the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it despite the fact that it was registered six years before MySpace was founded.

The fact that the myspace.co.uk address led to a ‘parked’ page with adverts for social networking sites including MySpace was taken to be evidence of an abusive registration and the domain name was given to MySpace.”

Hungry Mothers Have Children Prone to Drug Addiction – It’s about the brain development during the first 3 months in the womb – Softpedia

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hungry-Mothers-Have-Children-Prone-to-Drug-Addiction-77289.shtml

Having an addiction problem? Well, this may mean that your mother did not eat well after conceiving you. A new research published in the journal “Addiction” shows that children whose mothers passed through a period of famine are prone to addictions later in life.

Tips for Personal Branding in the Digital Age: Google Insurance, Cache-flow, and More&8230;

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/01/28/tips-for-personal-branding-in-the-digital-age-google-insurance-cache-flow-and-more/

Branding is no longer for Fortune 500 companies and Madison Avenue agencies with excessive budgets and inadequate tracking.

Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records.