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How many times did you regret clicking ’send’ when writing a new email? How many times did you think “If only I could stop this email before it leaves this building….”.

When I read that Google has added this feature to gmail, I checked the date to make sure it’s not April 1st, and it’s not.  The next thing I did is installing it, and tried it myself. It works like a charm.

Google proved again and again throughout the years, that they are the most creative thinking company on this planet. They keep solving problems that were always there but nobody thought these problems can be solved. They take nothing for granted. Nothing is impossible. Google is THE proof that inventive thinking can make the difference.

Twitter has a new user, that wasn’t born yet.

His dad is a gadget lover freek, that put a belt around his pregnant wife stomach, with sensors that feel the yet to be born kid kicking his mom. These kicks are translated to twitts that are sent to twitter in real time.

I wish that kid (and his parents) all the best and hope his daddy won’t put his diapers on twitter as well.

Net Applications reported this week that one third of the traffic coming from Google’s facilities has no user agent. This report refers specifically to the traffic coming from Google’s employees and not the Search Engine’s traffic.
Vince Vizzaccaro, a senior executive from Net Applications said that they had never seen an OS stripped off the user agent string before. “you have to arrange to have that happen, it’s not something we’ve seen before with a proxy server.”
So what’s Google hiding? Of course, Google, like Google wouldn’t comment on rumors and speculations.

What do you think? Why would they hide their UA?

Just came back from Affilicon. The first day was great, with lots of interesting lectures.

My favorite were Ronny Horowitz, talking about email marketing and the Pijama Millionaire.

I took some videos, started to upload them to youtube, here is the first one, where the Pijama Millionaire is having some fun on stage

Here is another Video where he talks about Niche Research.

There is another video I took where he tells about how he started, you are welcome to see it in the YBO Interactive page in Youtube

After too many emails and phone calls to SPRY support, that ended up nowhere, it was time to move on. I’ve decided to look for new hosting, but the thought about migration scared the shit out of me…

And last night it finally happened: Gemalaya has moved to godaddy!

The process wasn’t easy, but thanks to a good plan, and Gil’s help, everything is up and running.

The best way to handle such a migration is to build your site on the new server, and update your local hosts file to think that www.gemalaya.com is on the new IP although your DNS server thinks different. This lets you test the site, mysql connections, backups, billing integration, cron jobs, google base connections, redirect rules, sitemap auto generation, salesForce and many other things that needs to be tested on an e-commerce site. Once everything works, clear your hosts file, update DNS and hold tight.

Fortunately, all our emails are already on Google Apps, so we could skip the most annoying part of such a migration. If yo’re thinking about moving anywhere, this a great chance to move your email to Google Apps and when this is done, move the rest of the site.

The new vps account we got is rocket fast, network looks great, and the 2 phone calls I made to godaddy support where asnwered right away without waiting online forever and then get a voice mail auto response (like happened more than once with SPRY).

This morning, another beautiful Pink Tourmaline was sold on Gemalaya, this time on the new server. I’m almost sure that the gems look more pretty on the new site, but maybe its just me