The 42nd Estate

You may have heard that, finally, Yahoo and Microsoft have teamed up in the search engine arena. That’s all well and good, and actually a smart move by both companies. The new Bing engine from Microsoft is nice and a huge improvement over Microsoft’s previous search engine. Meanwhile Yahoo rocks at providing great services like Flickr, Yahoo Answers, and Delicious (or at least buying them and allowing them to keep rocking). Read the full post

A while back we submitted The 42nd Estate’s blog to Alltop’s Blogging resources category. Well, a while back we were approved and are now listed as a resource on Alltop! Read the full post

Huge news out of Facebook yesterday. On Saturday June 13th at 12:01 AM, Facebook will allow users to choose a username. It will be on a first come, first serve basis so if you have a common name, it’d be wise to stay in Friday night (or connect via your web phone) and get your name picked the first chance you get. Even though my name is fairly rare (Adam Pieniazek), I’ll still be on Facebook right after midnight to ensure I scoop up a username with my full name. Read the full post

When meeting new clients or networking with other business owners and freelancers, the question of what our name means comes up often. We admit, it is a bit obtuse and references a geeky book that not everyone has read, so today we’ll …

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