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No IPO For Gator

No IPO For Gator 08/12/2004 04:30 AM
While people are still watching for that Google IPO any day now, the door seems to be slamming shut for many other dot coms that hoped to leap through into the publicly traded world. Among the many firms who have delayed or pulled their IPOs in recent days, famed adware ("don' t call us spyware!") company Claria (better known as Gator). No details are given, but there's a short blurb in this article noting that Claria has delayed its IPO citing "unfavorable market conditions". Maybe the problem is that their "adware" is bogging down all their underwriters' computers. August is almost always a notoriously bad month for IPOs, so it makes you wonder why so many companies have been trying to push through now. Chances are the IPO market will rebound again at some point in the near future, so this may just be a short-lived break before Gator-ware infects Wall Street.

A Gator By Any Other Name

A Gator By Any Other Name 10/30/2003 08:10 AM

Gator Comes To Yahoo

Gator Comes To Yahoo 03/30/2005 02:11 AM
Corante Mar 30 2005 6:09AM GMT

NewsGator is NOT "Gator"

NewsGator is NOT "Gator" 06/17/2005 07:17 PM

Shortly after I announced that NewsG ator had acquired my company, I started seeing comments from people wondering whether NewsGator was related to the "Gator" spyware company (now known as "Claria"). The answer, of course, is NO (you don't really think I'd join a spyware company, do you?).

NewsGator founder Greg Reinacker wrote about this problem a few months ago, and wondered whether a name change was in order to prevent the unintended association. But renaming a company isn't the simplest thing to do, and even if the rename took place, people would still refer to us as "the former NewsGator company," defeating the purpose.

Funny thing is, I had a simil ar post in my own blog last month, related to some people taking offense to the "demon" part of FeedDemon's name. Given the problems with both names, I think it's safe to say that if we ever rename the company, we won't choose the name "GatorDemon" :)

Gator foe bitten, but still not shy

Gator foe bitten, but still not shy 12/02/2003 12:45 AM
Fresh from settling a libel lawsuit by pulling anti-Gator pages from its site, PC Pitstop plans to launch a new, expanded site critical of the controversial software.

Gator Becomes Claria

Gator Becomes Claria 10/31/2003 03:50 AM
Boston.Internet.com Oct 31 2003 3:06AM ET

Gator renamed

Gator renamed 10/30/2003 07:05 AM

Gator Wants To Go Public As Claria

Gator Wants To Go Public As Claria 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
You may remember that late last year, Gator changed their name to Claria to try to shake the "spyware" label that people kept hanging on them. Of course, a better way to do that might have been (this is just a suggestion, of course) to stop shipping sneaky adware that installs itself without people realizing it. Instead, they changed the name and made their webpage look all spiffy as if they're some kind of marketing company. Now, that they've given people a few months to forget what they're really doing, they've decided to file for an IPO where they hope to raise lots of cash to come up with other ways to get on your computer. The filings show that sneaking your way onto computers can be profitable, as they brought in $35 million in profit on revenue of $90 million.

Gator, er, Claria Files for IPO

Gator, er, Claria Files for IPO 04/10/2004 05:10 AM
Even with high-profile lawsuits, complaints from users and new state laws banning ad-spouting programs, the adware company formerly known as Gator has filed to go public. By Amit Asaravala.

Gmail's Similarities To Gator

Gmail's Similarities To Gator 04/26/2004 02:13 AM
ClickZ has an article that points out for all the complaints about Google's Gmail offering, one area that people haven't really explored is how it's actually similar to Gator in certain ways. Of course, since so many people hate Gator, this will automatically be seen as a negative - but what people hate about Gator is that it gets installed without the user knowing it, which isn't the case with Gmail. Also, Gator covers up other sites with popups from competitors, while Gmail just place regular text ads off to the side. However, there are some similarities - and you can imagine that companies will get upset when they find out that next to their own email marketing there is an ad for a competitor. How long until a merchant sues? There have been a number of similar cases against Gator (and others) and the results have been mixed depending on the judge. I stand by my position that throwing up competitors ads by itself should be perfectly legal - as long as the user knows what's happening and the software hasn't been put on their machine without their knowledge. Still, not everyone sees it that way - and it's likely that an annoyed retailer will sue. Another option, as suggested by Jeremy Wagstaff, is that companies that advertise by email will move to alternatives like RSS. Of course, once Gmail adds an RSS news aggregator to their Gmail product they'll face the same issue. Maybe, instead of worrying so much about competitors' ads showing up, they should just focus on making sure their product is something people want.

Man Stabs 6-Foot Gator to Free His Dog
(AP)

Man Stabs 6-Foot Gator to Free His Dog
(AP) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
AP - A man stabbed a 6-foot alligator with a pocketknife after the reptile grabbed his dog by the head, and managed to scare off the reptile.

CNN.com - Man stabs gator to protect dog
- Aug 27, 2004

CNN.com - Man stabs gator to protect dog
- Aug 27, 2004 08/29/2004 12:08 AM
CNN.com - Man stabs gator to protect dog - Aug 27, 2004 .. Even walking the dog is an adventure in Florida .. cnn

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Seminoles, Mountaineers Set for Gator
Bowl (AP)

Seminoles, Mountaineers Set for Gator
Bowl (AP) 01/01/2005 12:11 PM
AP - Florida State's Chris Rix and West Virginia's Rasheed Marshall met at a children's hospital during a recent Gator Bowl function. They talked about getting thrust into the spotlight long ago as freshmen, Rix's California roots and their mutual respect.

Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard

Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard 04/30/2004 02:57 PM
An appeals court orders greater scrutiny of the case between the two companies.

Gator sheds skin, renames itself

Gator sheds skin, renames itself 10/30/2003 12:34 AM
Gator, the controversial advertising software ande-wallet company, changes its name tobetter reflect its behavioral marketing business.

Gator Files for IPO to Raise $150
Million

Gator Files for IPO to Raise $150
Million 04/10/2004 08:23 PM

Gator mutation Claria files for IPO

Gator mutation Claria files for IPO 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Internet stock offerings may be heating up, but Claria may be hindered by its controversial adware.

Gator sinks teeth into new image

Gator sinks teeth into new image 10/30/2003 03:54 PM
The controversial advertising software ande-wallet company changes its name in a bid to distance itself from a brand that has become associated with allegations of "spyware."

Man Accused of Hitting Woman With Gator
(AP)

Man Accused of Hitting Woman With Gator
(AP) 07/17/2004 02:53 PM
AP - A man hit his girlfriend with a 3-foot alligator and threw beer bottles at her during an argument in the couple's mobile home, authorities said.

12-Foot, 400-Pound Gator Captured in
Miami (AP)

12-Foot, 400-Pound Gator Captured in
Miami (AP) 01/04/2005 12:43 AM
AP - A 12-foot alligator weighing more than 400 pounds and described as among the largest ever caught near downtown Miami was hoisted from a creek Monday by a firetruck.

No. 17 Florida State Wins Gator Bowl
(AP)

No. 17 Florida State Wins Gator Bowl
(AP) 01/02/2005 12:29 AM
AP - Coach Bobby Bowden stuck with struggling quarterback Chris Rix, and he eventually sparked No. 17 Florida State with two long second-half touchdown drives Saturday, beating West Virginia 30-18 in the Gator Bowl.

Florida St. Tops W. Virginia in Gator
Bowl (AP)

Florida St. Tops W. Virginia in Gator
Bowl (AP) 01/01/2005 06:23 PM
AP - Florida State overcame mistake after mistake to avoid an unprecedented third straight bowl loss. Leon Washington ran for 195 yards and Chris Rix crafted two long second-half touchdown drives, leading No. 17 Florida State to a 30-18 victory over West Virginia in the Gator Bowl on Saturday.

CNN.com - Florida man accused of using
gator as weapon - Jul 18, 2004

CNN.com - Florida man accused of using
gator as weapon - Jul 18, 2004 07/20/2004 02:40 PM

ABCNEWS.com : Man Accused of Hitting
Woman With Gator

ABCNEWS.com : Man Accused of Hitting
Woman With Gator 07/19/2004 04:26 AM
Florida Man Accused Of Hitting Girlfriend With 3-Foot Alligator During Argument .. This sounds like

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Briefly: Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be
reheard

Briefly: Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be
reheard 04/30/2004 04:18 PM
CNET Apr 30 2004 8:29PM GMT

Forum Stories: removing gator and hotbar

Forum Stories: removing gator and hotbar 07/13/2004 05:32 AM

74-Year-Old Woman Survives Gator Attack
(AP)

74-Year-Old Woman Survives Gator Attack
(AP) 04/23/2004 08:23 PM
AP - A 74-year-old woman survived an attack by a nearly 10-foot-long alligator that bit her on the leg and arm and dragged her into a lake.

Gator Eludes Arkansas Cops, Game
Officers (AP)

Gator Eludes Arkansas Cops, Game
Officers (AP) 06/16/2004 10:05 AM
AP - Mention alligators in Arkansas, and the slow-moving bayous of southern and eastern parts of the state come to mind. But a stock pond in the Ozarks is also harboring a young reptile with large teeth.

World's favorite spyware program, Gator,
tries new company name

World's favorite spyware program, Gator,
tries new company name 10/30/2003 11:28 AM

Milwaukee Postal Workers Find Live Gator

Milwaukee Postal Workers Find Live Gator 11/15/2003 10:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 15 2003 8:08PM ET

Destroy Gator, Modify Control-Panel
Icons, Clean Your LCD

Destroy Gator, Modify Control-Panel
Icons, Clean Your LCD 08/29/2004 07:12 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 29 2004 11:26AM GMT
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"infinite cat project"

"infinite cat project" 06/12/2004 08:33 PM

"The Infinite Cat Project"

"The Infinite Cat Project" 05/10/2004 03:11 AM

Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - The
Infinite Cat Project

Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - The
Infinite Cat Project 05/07/2004 03:41 AM
Watching cats watching cats watching cats watching cats .. the infinite cat project

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Indigineous prior-art database to fight
bio-piracy

Indigineous prior-art database to fight
bio-piracy 03/19/2003 10:45 PM
Multinational pharma companies are patenting the traditional medecine of indigineous people. Now activists have created a prior-art website to foil these acts of "bio-piracy."

They hope that the Tekpad (Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database) website will go some way to redress this bio-piracy by offering US and European patent offices a comprehensive list of traditional remedies that are already in the public domain...

"The website is a way of fighting bio-piracy which is the misuse of biological resources and knowledge," Project Director Stephen Hansen explained to the BBC's Go Digital programme.

Link Discuss (Thanks, Scott!)

Falling Spiders

Falling Spiders 05/04/2004 02:30 AM
So I'm laying in bed while talking on the phone and I notice a spider walking on the ceiling several feet above my face. That of course got me wondering (or maybe worrying?) if the spider would fall on my face during the night. Not being a fan of spiders, that's a mildly disturbing thought. But then I realized that spiders are really good at not falling. In fact, I've only seen spiders fall in very specific circumstances. When one...

The truth about camel spiders

The truth about camel spiders 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Here's the myth about camel spiders, the monsters of the Iraqi desert.

"Supposedly they leap onto the backs of camels and suck out the blood. I've been told that a couple of these things can kill a full grown camel."

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"Here's the lowdown on camel spiders, which aren't spiders at all:

In reality, camel spiders aren't some mysterious Arabian creature -- we have them in the United States and in Mexico, where they are called matevenados. They are slightly smaller than the human hand, and while they do run quickly, their top speed is 10 miles per hour, not 25. But they also make no noise, they excrete no venom, and although they can be voracious nocturnal predators, they don't eat camels. They eat delicious crickets and pillbugs, and sometimes scorpions."

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SonicWALL Firewall Blocks Spiders

SonicWALL Firewall Blocks Spiders 06/05/2005 11:28 PM
"Wondering why your website isn't being spidered? Your firewall may now be part of the issue."

The Inner Workings of Robots, Spiders,
and Web Crawlers

The Inner Workings of Robots, Spiders,
and Web Crawlers 08/27/2004 01:26 PM
Robots, a.k.a. spiders or Web crawlers are used to feed data to a user, such as Google. Most robots are useful, but some, such as EmailSiphon and Cherry Picker are spambots. Here, you'll learn what robots do and how to gain control over them. By Lee Underwood. 0824

Set-Infinite-0.57

Set-Infinite-0.57 05/03/2004 04:40 PM

Set-Infinite-0.55

Set-Infinite-0.55 11/16/2003 10:27 AM

Set-Infinite-0.59

Set-Infinite-0.59 07/05/2004 09:45 AM

Set-Infinite-0.58

Set-Infinite-0.58 06/14/2004 05:52 PM

Set-Infinite-0.43

Set-Infinite-0.43 03/14/2003 06:16 PM

Prisoners Breed Spiders for Venom High
(AP)

Prisoners Breed Spiders for Venom High
(AP) 09/07/2004 08:04 PM
AP - Inmates in an Australian prison have been caught breeding deadly redback spiders that they milked for venom to inject themselves for a high, according to government records.

Trade Secret of Sticky Spiders Revealed

Trade Secret of Sticky Spiders Revealed 04/26/2004 12:41 AM

Spiders inspire eight-legged Post-it
notes

Spiders inspire eight-legged Post-it
notes 04/23/2004 10:51 AM
Arachnid molecular adhesion

How computers could help people overcome
their fear of spiders

How computers could help people overcome
their fear of spiders 11/02/2003 08:44 PM
BBC Nov 2 2003 7:22PM ET

Adsense Spider Crawls Sites, or Just
Spiders Pages?

Adsense Spider Crawls Sites, or Just
Spiders Pages? 09/24/2004 11:38 AM
"... crawl your pages the same way the googlebot does by following links? Or, does it just go directly to the pages that have the Adsense code?"

Infinite Secrets : Archimedes

Infinite Secrets : Archimedes 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
NOVA : Infinite Secrets : Archimedes
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh /nova/archimedes

This website is the companion piece to the PBS NOVA broadcast of "Infinite Secrets," a documentary relating the discovery of the oldest of Archimedes' extant treatises. The treatise was bought at auction, with none knowing that hidden under the 13th Century prayer manuscript was a copy of an Archimedes work. The site details the history of this palimpsest, the efforts undertaken to do imaging and scanning of the badly deteriorated and scraped Archimedes treatise, and the mathematical implications for the find, as the palimpsest indicated that Archimedes was working on the concept of calculating infinity; a precursor, in the minds of the scholars who worked on this project, on the road to the calculus.

E-On Software announces Vue 5 Infinite

E-On Software announces Vue 5 Infinite 02/01/2005 09:55 PM
E-On Software on Monday announced that it will ship Vue 5 Infinite on March 14. Designed for creating natural 3D environments, the software offers all of the features found in Vue 4 Professional and adds EcoSystem technology that populates scenery with animated plants, rocks and objects; single-object and complete-scene export to major 3D applications, including Cinema 4D, LightWave and Maya; G-Buffer and Multi-Pass rendering with anti-aliased masks; multi-layer PSD, RLA and RPF file format support; an OpenGL-based pre-rendering engine; AccuShadows, which enables advanced shadow mapping; and more.

Infinite sadness, little wisdom

Infinite sadness, little wisdom 04/12/2004 02:16 PM
Via Visa. But I will shorten it, and only answer a single question. The only question I care for anymore.

If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
I would take one certain person, and give her the love she seeks, because it is what she deserves. But which was not mine to give.

I don't want to hurt anyone else ever again.

Please excuse my low bitrate for now. Too much to think.

Humans And Spiders - Both Visitors Are
Key To Flourishing Work At Home
Websites!

Humans And Spiders - Both Visitors Are
Key To Flourishing Work At Home
Websites! 05/28/2004 01:48 AM
WebDevInfo May 28 2004 6:20AM GMT

Robots, Agents and Spiders - Identifying
Search Engine Crawlers

Robots, Agents and Spiders - Identifying
Search Engine Crawlers 09/10/2002 10:44 AM
Stickysauce Sep 10 2002 8:58AM ET

"The infinite hotel [dive into mark]"

"The infinite hotel [dive into mark]" 12/06/2003 03:21 PM

Trying to imagine hackers of cognition
and the infinite

Trying to imagine hackers of cognition
and the infinite 12/05/2003 01:49 PM

I've just read Mark Pilgrim's post, "The infinite hotel", which I'm sure I'll need to re-read a few times and chase down references to read. Also I'm reading Gödel, Escher, Bach again for the third time, since I first read it in high school and needed corks in my ears to prevent brain slurry from spilling out. I really need to read more of this sort of thing, refresh myself on all the math I took in college, and explore some of this really abstract stuff.

Something I've been musing about lately, without any real novel ideas or insights, is about the history of computation and these thinking machines. Not history in terms of events and when, but in terms of the concepts and discoveries leading up to keyboards, screens, and code today. Thinking about things like recursion, and sets, and logic, and all the patterns and revolutions in thought that are the basis for everyday business and life today.

I've been trying to imagine the world in each moment where each of these things were new, when these things were worked out in minds and on paper. When there were no computational engines available to carry out calculations or work out conclusions to logical constructions. Today, these discoveries are crystallized in computing architectures, and so geeks hack and play and learn by example. The construction of the CPU is objective fact, independent of subjective thought or understanding, and the behavior of code demonstrates the laws and rules. Before, the rules were carefully reasoned out and intuited from observations on the objective universe, but now they're assimilated by example from mechanically working artifacts.

I'm not sure I'm expressing this very well, or if my thoughts are very well formed altogether, but I'm trying to imagine mental life without readily available, objectively existing computational artifacts with which we can play, without prohibitive investments of effort or time. No scripting languages with which to just try out logical constructions. No calculators with which to solve formulae. All manual, all by hand, all worked out by careful thought and precision. I'm trying to imagine what geeks like me, as I am today, would be like at a time when everyone dealing in these things was an abstraction astronaut, and there was not really a such thing as that-which-just-works or worse-is-better. Does this make any sense?

Again, this is not really an expression of anything coherent or novel. This is mostly me just in awe of how we got here, and trying to get myself above the mode of being just a hacker chasing down the phylogeny of all that's come before, and into some meta-mode of understanding of the things behind what makes these thinking machines and the thinking itself work. Maybe after a few more decades of this I'll have some thoughts worth sharing synthesized from all that I've learned.

Florida Nursing Students Association and
AfterCollege HealthcarePartner to Create
Online Destination for Largest Audience
of Student Nurses in Florida

Florida Nursing Students Association and
AfterCollege HealthcarePartner to Create
Online Destination for Largest Audience
of Student Nurses in Florida 03/29/2005 03:55 AM
AfterCollege Healthcare will power the Florida Nursing Students Association web site and Job Resource Center, delivering relevant employment information to over 3,000 association members. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

How helping spiders reveals the webs
dynamic content to search engines

How helping spiders reveals the webs
dynamic content to search engines 05/11/2004 12:46 AM
InternetRetailer.com May 11 2004 4:41AM GMT

Re: Driver for display goes to a
infinite loop by viewing a html!

Re: Driver for display goes to a
infinite loop by viewing a html! 08/11/2004 01:59 PM
Mike Pumford (Aug 11 2004)

Driver for display goes to a infinite
loop by viewing a html!

Driver for display goes to a infinite
loop by viewing a html! 08/11/2004 11:42 AM
Bipin Gautam (Aug 11 2004)

Pickup Games, The Reckoning - Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space

Pickup Games, The Reckoning - Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space 06/18/2004 10:01 PM

MATT GALLANT -- Well, my week is up, and I've saved as a parting shot the ultimate pickup game: Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, developed by Digital Eel and published by Cheapass Games. Games take just minutes.

There's not as much brain power required as there is in the other games from this week; in fact your score really has more to do with luck than anything else. But despite having probably less strategy involved than a game of Freecell, SAIS feels like it's smarter than it is, because it recalls elements of games with more depth, with its goals of space exploration, combat, trade and collection.

The demo is pretty crippled compared to the full version, but the full version costs only $15. Well, the PC and Mac versions do. There's PocketPC and PalmOS versions too (new Tapwave Zodiac owners take note!), available from Astraware for $19.99.

And with that fifth and final recommendation, I'm done! All five of the games I've mentioned this week are great for spending a few minutes with, but so playable that you'll be able to play for hours. Have fun, Gizmodo!
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Gator Be Gone!

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