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		<title>on absence, new clients, IQ, and web 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;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&#8217;s just dying to share something this interesting.  On signing the contract and the agreement I was subjugated to an IQ test, and while [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="dropcap-first">Well, I&#8217;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&#8217;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. [fg]-&gt;tj! </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see.  In that same week I managed to almost get sued by Beyonce Knowles&#8217; lawyers, I lost a fair bit of my online portfolio due to sheer stupidity (for the first time ever I tried to play it <em>safe</em> &#8211; 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 <em>empirical proof</em> to the concept of Post-Modernism.  At the same time I&#8217;ve ignored e-mail and my blog almost completely.</p>
<p>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 &#8211; a few trying to get into socnetverse, plenty trying to usurp the world of gadgets&#8230; all in all perhaps 2-3 sites worth a second glance.</p>
<p>I will start doing my second review of Minggl right after this &#8211; it&#8217;s been 70% finished since last week so it shouldn&#8217;t take too long.  I&#8217;m about 800 posts behind on my RSS readings, so I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s plenty more things to look at.<!--adsense#inpost--></p>
<p>Either way, I am sorry to have vanished just like that &#8211; I guess my personal blog is the only thing for which I have not written a contingency plan <img src='http://www.thomasjankowski.com/tj/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   Yet!  Oh, before I forget &#8211;  <a href="http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBG6669" title="Own the Internet... again ;)" class="liexternal">AllAdvantage is back as Agloco</a> &#8211; 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 <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/17/freestock.idg/" class="liexternal">Travelzoo&#8217;s offer</a> 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.</p>
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