Archive | August, 2009
Now Download . Com – Yes folks searching for this. It is a SCAM!

Now Download . Com – Yes folks searching for this. It is a SCAM!

by Scott Kane on August 31, 2009 in Download Sites Are Spam, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

Yes. NowDownload is a scam. That is why it’s disappeared off the Internet. The registrar for the domain name is GoDaddy. The owner is a Pablo Soto. The address listed for him – if real – is:

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Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

by Scott Kane on August 7, 2009 in 30Dayers, Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

magine my delight today when I see the search term from Yahoo for “free live sound mixing software” and got the following result, page after page, for the download sites:

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Windows 7 – RTM 6th Of August 2009

Windows 7 – RTM 6th Of August 2009

by Scott Kane on August 6, 2009 in .net, 30Dayers, BizSpark, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, Micro ISV, Microsoft, bootstrap isv

Today – for those in the Northern Hemisphere (yesterday almost for the rest of us) Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 officially to RTM (Release To Manufacturing). Which means, the Microsoft MSDN server gods willing, I’ll be able to download my own release licenses sometime in the small hours after midnight (my time). Of course if indeed I can get a connection, given the amount of traffic they are likely to get, it’ll probably take a while to download.

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