Well, I’ve been away for almost a week, stuck on an unexpected contract. I must say that non-disclosure agreements are not as fun as they sound, especially for a blogger who’s just dying to share something this interesting. On signing the contract and the agreement I was subjugated to an IQ test, and while I have much less confidence in them than I used to years ago, I was happy to score 138. So was the client.

Let’s see. In that same week I managed to almost get sued by Beyonce Knowles’ lawyers, I lost a fair bit of my online portfolio due to sheer stupidity (for the first time ever I tried to play it safe – bad idea), I came down with an overdue illness, I got ideas for 200+ domains and some 10 sites, and wrote a research paper on why technology serves as empirical proof to the concept of Post-Modernism. At the same time I’ve ignored e-mail and my blog almost completely.

Having returned, I got about 40 hours of sleep in three days, then spent two days catching up on e-mails (870 e-mails after filtering out junk!). Unsurprisingly, about 30 new mashups popped all over the board – a few trying to get into socnetverse, plenty trying to usurp the world of gadgets… all in all perhaps 2-3 sites worth a second glance.

I will start doing my second review of Minggl right after this – it’s been 70% finished since last week so it shouldn’t take too long. I’m about 800 posts behind on my RSS readings, so I’m sure there’s plenty more things to look at.

Either way, I am sorry to have vanished just like that – I guess my personal blog is the only thing for which I have not written a contingency plan Yet! Oh, before I forget – AllAdvantage is back as Agloco – with a much better business plan and definitely a much better timing. Considering that I made decent money with them (and always thought the idea was ingenious, but far from fraud-proof) and that I was also one of the few people who went with Travelzoo’s offer of free stock eight years ago and held onto it for a 1250% return, woooo hoooo. Expect a lot more on this topic, and a review of its backend to ensure its safety as soon as the viewbar is out.