Andy Rankin

For the past several weeks a dedicated team of folks at Viget have been working on updating the web site. We set a target launch date when we started and they managed to make the deadline! A lot of hard work was put in by a few key people and many others chipped […]

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Health insurance is a huge pain - in many ways.  The entire health care industry is a bit screwed up.  Don’t get me wrong, I have had the good fortune (depending on how you look at it) to deal with quite a few very competent doctors and nurses over the past several months so I’m […]

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The talk over the past couple of weeks has been about the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! Other than Flickr, does anyone still use Yahoo!? Okay, I’m sure plenty of people do - actually my wife and I use the Yahoo! address book because we’re still waiting for Google to come out with a […]

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This isn’t a post on how to buy a car online - maybe I’ll write that one later.  I need a new car.  I’m not a car guy and really don’t enjoy shopping for cars.  My wife and I decided on the car we want, the options we want (thankfully this model has limited options […]

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For a while now CNN.com has been linking to articles on local TV station web sites (presumably CNN affiliates). You can tell that they’re external links because they label them with the call letters of the station (in this example, WPBF and WKMG). Considering the traffic that CNN.com gets this has to be […]

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This is pretty dang cool. I’m not how often people would actually manually resize an image by dragging its corner but certainly the ability to dynamically resize an image for different devices would be very useful.
It will also be interesting to see if people react to how these photos are altered. There is […]

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I was poking around looking for a tool that could translate English words to Haitian Creole. Google has some translation services that I was checking out. One thing I noticed was the option to change the language used by the Google interface. No sign of Creole but you can Google around using […]

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I’m sure I’m not the only person who uses Google search even though there’s a 99% chance that you could guess the right URL. For example, this morning I was trying to find the PetSmart site. Sure, it’s almost certainly www.petsmart.com but it’s almost as easy to just punch petsmart into the Google […]

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I was reading a post from Seth Godin’s blog last night and in a round about way it was describing something I’ve been thinking about lately. My thoughts also were in line with Kevin Kelleher’s post on GigaOM about Amazon Prime.
I shop online for three main reasons:

Better deals (can I get it for cheaper […]

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