Mar

9

Pay-Per-Post is Still Evil

March 9, 2007 |

Thanks to the Center for Citizen Media for picking this (old but still relevant) story up again from the LA Times.
In the end, despite the contempt we should feel for the companies brokering this stuff, it’s the bloggers who should be looking in the mirror.
I’ll leave the last word to Jason Calacanis, who’s quoted in […]

Mar

9

An Exit for Technorati

March 9, 2007 |

Read/WriteWeb asks an interesting question: what is the exit strategy for Technorati in the face of competition from Google’s blog search?
Earlier this week Emre wrote about declining traffic on Technorati and considered the exit options for this blog vertical search and portal site. The challenge from Google Blogsearch is certainly serious. It is difficult […]

Mar

7

Clicks Must Die

March 7, 2007 |

According to Valleywag, social networking site Facebook has a beyond horrible clickthrough rate of 0.04%. That’s only 400 click for 1.000.000 impressions.
Is anybody really surprised about that? I always hear that people want ‘relevant’ ads and they will magically click. More and more, I have come to believe that that is BS. Have you clicked […]

Mar

7

Bill Gates on Immigration and My Green Card (slightly OT)

March 7, 2007 |

It’s an interesting coincidence that Bill Gates is talking about immigration today, given that I received my own ‘Permanent Resident Card’ (or Green Card for the rest of us) just last night. I am planning to write a bit more about this process later on.
Now that it is over, I feel free to talk […]

Mar

6

The Return of My.Netscape

March 6, 2007 |

Read/Write Web reports that my.netscape is being relaunched as a web 2.0 homepage.
Oh joy. Looking at the site, there is absolutely nothing there that makes it stand out form other (better) offerings such as Netvibes or Protopages. There isn’t even a build in RSS reader or any other useful features on the site that […]

Mar

2

LibSyn Sold to Wizzard Media

March 2, 2007 |

Press Release via jkOnThe Run:
PITTSBURGH - March 1, 2007 - Wizzard Software (OTCBB: WIZD) today announced that it has signed the final merger agreement for the acquisition of podcasting company Webmayhem, Inc., dba Liberated Syndication, which will create the largest podcasting distribution network in the world. Liberated Syndication (Libsyn), founded in 2004 by four entrepreneurs […]

Mar

1

People in Glasshouses…

March 1, 2007 |

Arrington on Wired on gaming Digg.
I think when it comes to complaining about people having certain motives to publish things, Arrington should just keep quietly in the background. He has been accused of the same thing too often and given that digg provides him with a good chunk of traffic, I guess we can […]

Mar

1

Digg Gaming is Easy

March 1, 2007 |

At least according to this Wired article. The author hired User/Submitter (no link for them) to get the most horribly inane blog on the digg front page (pictures of crowds - how exciting). And indeed, that’s where his blog on pictures of crowds ended up very quickly. Now we all know that Digg can be […]

Mar

1

Joost Invites

March 1, 2007 | 25 Comments

Joost just gave me two invites I can give to any deserving friends. If you read this, I consider you to be a friend. Because I need some more incoming links, the first two people to add me to their blog-roll or link to me in a blog post and email me at frederic AT […]

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