Comments on: Twitterment, domain grabbing, and grad students who could have been rich! http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/08/twitterment-domain-grabbing-and-grad-students-who-could-have-been-rich/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Pat http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/08/twitterment-domain-grabbing-and-grad-students-who-could-have-been-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-24551 Pat Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:07:42 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1553#comment-24551 According to Yahoo! Site Explorer, "http://twitterment.umbc.edu" has 1,940 links pointing to it. According to Google's page rank system, the new URL has a page rank of 5, which is really good. Also, you should really 301 redirect the twitterment URL to its real destination, otherwise the "link juice" of both links can get split, instead of adding together (that redirection page also probably hurt twitterment.umbc.edu's stumbleupon ranking - I checked and that URL is listed). Akshay may have missed the jackpot, but he still has a pretty popular site on his hands. According to Yahoo! Site Explorer, “http://twitterment.umbc.edu” has 1,940 links pointing to it. According to Google’s page rank system, the new URL has a page rank of 5, which is really good. Also, you should really 301 redirect the twitterment URL to its real destination, otherwise the “link juice” of both links can get split, instead of adding together (that redirection page also probably hurt twitterment.umbc.edu’s stumbleupon ranking – I checked and that URL is listed).

Akshay may have missed the jackpot, but he still has a pretty popular site on his hands.

]]> By: Harry Chen http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/08/twitterment-domain-grabbing-and-grad-students-who-could-have-been-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-24550 Harry Chen Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:39:22 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1553#comment-24550 It will nice if the Computer Science department or the University can offer a crash course on invention disclosure. It doesn't have to be a formal class, an informal one-day lecture will do. It's usually difficult to get graduate students to pay attention to the money aspect of hacking and research. Most of them are too stressed out with publications and thesis research. In history, those who have a sharp eye for $$ are usually college drop-outs. It will nice if the Computer Science department or the University can offer a crash course on invention disclosure. It doesn’t have to be a formal class, an informal one-day lecture will do. It’s usually difficult to get graduate students to pay attention to the money aspect of hacking and research. Most of them are too stressed out with publications and thesis research. In history, those who have a sharp eye for $$ are usually college drop-outs.

]]> By: Sam http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/08/twitterment-domain-grabbing-and-grad-students-who-could-have-been-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-24549 Sam Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:50:52 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1553#comment-24549 Domains cost what, 9 bucks a year? Domains cost what, 9 bucks a year?

]]> By: Craig Pfeifer http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/08/twitterment-domain-grabbing-and-grad-students-who-could-have-been-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-24546 Craig Pfeifer Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:37:42 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1553#comment-24546 "Lesson to you grad students — if you come up with something clever, file an invention disclosure with your university’s tech transfer folks." Umm, isn't the lesson if you build something that gets traction quit school and go build it out? “Lesson to you grad students — if you come up with something clever, file an invention disclosure with your university’s tech transfer folks.”

Umm, isn’t the lesson if you build something that gets traction quit school and go build it out?

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