When opening a new TD Ameritrade account, I was asked to choose four security questions and provide the answers to them. I don’t even know the answers to 98% of them. You better go study up on your elementary school yearbooks before opening an account somewhere! And, I think for one of [...]

It’s been a while since I envisioned a simpler web site for consumers to identify the best checking, savings, and money market rates at local, national, and online financial institutions. Back when my brother sent me a link to join ING Direct, years ago, I wasn’t really that bullish about online savings accounts. [...]

Now that I’m reading The Four Hour Work Week, I’ve been in the mode of increasing the efficiency of my day-to-day life. My current focus is managing receipts.  While shopping this weekend, I asked cashiers at various retailers, such as Macy’s and Barnes & Nobles, if they would accept a receipt that was printed [...]

Today, I was searching for “Cancun vacation homes” on Google, but then switched my search to just “vacation homes“.  What was very interesting is that although my second search excluded the word “Cancun”, the Sponsored Links on the right still showed Cancun-related vacation homes, as though the search terms persisted to my next search.
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I’m finally checking back in, and hopefully blogging again more frequently. That means, of course, more frequently than once in 9 months. I’ve been busy with several projects, and have been learning a tremendous amount about advertising and monetization across all the mediums — Internet, video, and mobile. Here’s a quick snapshot [...]