Take a Break and Cook a Perfect Egg

But I wanted a fried egg...

Just finished reading an exhaustive article on how to cook a perfect boiled egg. So for all the people out there who have wanted to know the secret here you go.

Start with cold tap water and place eggs in saucepan, bring it up to a bare simmer, then immediately shut off the heat, the water temperature will drop to below 170 degrees just as the central yolk temperature reaches 170 degrees, thereby guaranteeing that my egg will be perfectly cooked every single time.

The water volume should be about 1.5 quarts (6 cups). You may have to tweak the volume a bit to figure out your own perfect volume of water. However when you do you should be able to produce a consistent boiled egg every time.

Have a great breakfast.

Marketing Effectively On The Internet Can Be Expensive

Can I borrow 10 million to place an ad campaign on the net?

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There’s no secret that different types of websites attract different levels and types of advertisers – but the variance is rarely elaborated upon.

For instance, Facebook’s top 100 advertisers spend $49,045,000 per month, while the top 100 advertisers of IMDB ($7,217,400), CNET ($3,094,000), and NYTimes ($7,128,500) combined spend about 1/3 ($17,740,000) that of Facebook. This of course addresses the levels of ad revenue by popular sites, and is just one of the findings from the most recent Nielsen AdRelevance report. Of special note are AT&T’s spending trends, and the rate at which this brand has invested online, especially in the four sites included in the study.

Check out Shaukat Shamim's site for more great internet marketing insights.

Get Everyone Communicating

But I thought you had the meeting notes...

There are lots of great free stuff on the net these days and this one has some great tools to help you be a better informed marketer. PC World gave it an editors choice for "Great Fee software" too. Check out this site to see what other things this tool can do for you.


Manage your brand awareness on the Internet
Gather, discuss and share all brand mentions easily with your team, your management and your sales force. Analyze easily how their brand is growing and make changes to campaigns or stop unwarranted brand-based attacks.

Crawl your competitors' heads
Qitera helps marketers to analyze easily competitor's websites, news releases and on-line brand awareness in the media, on consumer-generated blogs and message boards.

Event Management
Share, discuss and update event details with your team members. Gather information on speakers, locations, food and hospitality specialists.

Creative brainstorming with your teams
Group brainstorming can be very effective as it uses the experience and creativity of all members of the group. Gather, share and discuss ideas from all over the web and combine them with your own ideas to prepare future events and marketing plans or campaigns.

What if I could have booked one of the first .coms...

No way I can't believe that they forgot that one...

With all the hype for the DotTel domain option bubbling away in Vancouver I was reminded of the old days when .com domain names where available to anyone who wanted a cool name. Check out this list and see if you would have chosen one of them or picked a different .com for your business.


The 100 Oldest .COM Domains

Create Date		Domain Name
03/15/1985		SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985		BBN.COM
05/24/1985		THINK.COM
07/11/1985		MCC.COM
09/30/1985		DEC.COM
11/07/1985		NORTHROP.COM
01/09/1986		XEROX.COM
01/17/1986		SRI.COM
03/03/1986		HP.COM
03/05/1986		BELLCORE.COM
03/19/1986		IBM.COM
03/19/1986		SUN.COM
03/25/1986		INTEL.COM
03/25/1986		TI.COM
04/25/1986		ATT.COM
05/08/1986		GMR.COM
05/08/1986		TEK.COM
07/10/1986		FMC.COM
07/10/1986		UB.COM
08/05/1986		BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986		GE.COM
08/05/1986		GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986		ISC.COM
08/05/1986		NSC.COM
08/05/1986		STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986		BOEING.COM
09/18/1986		ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986		SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986		PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986		ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986		BDM.COM
10/27/1986		FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986		INMET.COM
10/27/1986		KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986		MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986		NEC.COM
10/27/1986		RAY.COM
10/27/1986		ROSEMOUNT.COM
10/27/1986		VORTEX.COM
11/05/1986		ALCOA.COM
11/05/1986		GTE.COM
11/17/1986		ADOBE.COM
11/17/1986		AMD.COM
11/17/1986		DAS.COM
11/17/1986		DATA-IO.COM
11/17/1986		OCTOPUS.COM
11/17/1986		PORTAL.COM
11/17/1986		TELTONE.COM
12/11/1986		3COM.COM
12/11/1986		AMDAHL.COM
12/11/1986		CCUR.COM
12/11/1986		CI.COM
12/11/1986		CONVERGENT.COM
12/11/1986		DG.COM
12/11/1986		PEREGRINE.COM
12/11/1986		QUAD.COM
12/11/1986		SQ.COM
12/11/1986		TANDY.COM
12/11/1986		TTI.COM
12/11/1986		UNISYS.COM
01/19/1987		CGI.COM
01/19/1987		CTS.COM
01/19/1987		SPDCC.COM
02/19/1987		APPLE.COM
03/04/1987		NMA.COM
03/04/1987		PRIME.COM
04/04/1987		PHILIPS.COM
04/23/1987		DATACUBE.COM
04/23/1987		KAI.COM
04/23/1987		TIC.COM
04/23/1987		VINE.COM
04/30/1987		NCR.COM
05/14/1987		CISCO.COM
05/14/1987		RDL.COM
05/20/1987		SLB.COM
05/27/1987		PARCPLACE.COM
05/27/1987		UTC.COM
06/26/1987		IDE.COM
07/09/1987		TRW.COM
07/13/1987		UNIPRESS.COM
07/27/1987		DUPONT.COM
07/27/1987		LOCKHEED.COM
07/28/1987		ROSETTA.COM
08/18/1987		TOAD.COM
08/31/1987		QUICK.COM
09/03/1987		ALLIED.COM
09/03/1987		DSC.COM
09/03/1987		SCO.COM
09/22/1987		GENE.COM
09/22/1987		KCCS.COM
09/22/1987		SPECTRA.COM
09/22/1987		WLK.COM
09/30/1987		MENTAT.COM
10/14/1987		WYSE.COM
11/02/1987		CFG.COM
11/09/1987		MARBLE.COM
11/16/1987		CAYMAN.COM
11/16/1987		ENTITY.COM
11/24/1987		KSR.COM
11/30/1987		NYNEXST.COM