Searching for people:

Searching for people using the online white pages, produces dubious results. If the person has moved at all in the last two years, chances are the information you'll find is out of date. Here are some different search engines to try:

Locate.com
This site does not have accurate info for me.
http://www.locate.com/
555-1212
This site is the only online white pages I've found to have accurate info for me. But unfortunately since Monday of this week it became inaccurate!
http://www.555-1212.com/
Whitepages.com
So far, this web site has the oldest telephone information for me. This information hasn't been accurate for at least four years!
http://www.whitepages.com/
Yahoo reference section
Click on reference then phone book listings then individual
http://www.yahoo.com/
IAF.net
An e-mail directory, listing e-mail addresses for me that don't work anymore. The address at CRL.com was canceled in 1995, the address odeana@cruzio.com in 1998!
http://www.iaf.net/

Searching for businesses, Business tools

Yahoo Yellow Pages
The most accurate Yellow Pages I've found online so far. There are many that are inaccurate.
http://yp.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Calendar
Not related to Businesses, but useful nonetheless!
http://calendar.yahoo.com/

Searching for web rings:

Webring.org
Web rings are rings of related web sites. We saw an example of this on the SOAR Recipe web site. People with sites of similar content form a "ring" of sites so that people interested in that topic can go from one stie to the next in the "ring."
http://www.webring.org/

Searching for business statistics:

City of Santa Cruz
Business License Search

This allows you to search all businesses located within Santa Cruz City Limits.
http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/bldb/
NUA Surveys
Internet and Business statistics/trends/demographics
http://www.nua.ie/

Getting your own domain name:

Here is a link to the handout I've created on getting your own domain name.

Example of a secure server

An example of a secure server can be seen on Tom Bihn's backpack web site:

http://www.tombihn.com/