Blogger on Vacation
I am vacationing in Europe and will completely disengage from the web for the next two weeks.
I am sure when I come back I will be completely out of the loop, but that’s the joy of travelling…
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Google Misses Estimates – Stock Down 7%
Today is a good day not to own Google (GOOG) stock. Here is the summary from Tech Trader Daily:
Revenues were $3.87 billion, or $2.72 billion ex-TAC, with pro forma EPS of $3.56; the Street was looking for $2.68 billion revenues ex-TAC, and $3.59 a share.
Other metrics: Google sites revenue, up 74% year-over-year; partner sites [...]
iPhone Hacked to Work with Prepaid SIMs
The iPhone developer wiki announced that a new hack allows the iPhone to work with prepaid cards, specifically, those bought at 7-11s:
Update: we got confirmation that prepaid cards using the AT&T network worked. At least it has been confirmed for 7-11 cards
We wanted to get some confirmations before announcing it, but it seems nearly [...]
TechCrunch Buys InviteShare
Mike Arrington today announced that TechCrunch has acquired InviteShare, a service where users can share invitations to invite-only sites. This is, as far as I know, TechCrunch’s first acqusition and probably a harbinger of things to come.
About a month ago we had the idea of creating a fairly simple website that could match users who [...]
The Potter Leak Continued
The Harry Potter mania still dumbfounds me (simply because they aren’t very good books by adult standards), but I like BoingBoing’s take on it:
Seriously, though. With the last book, the publisher was so freaked out about ebook “piracy” that they refused to release an official electronic edition. The result? Fans made their own electronic text [...]
The Blog Wars are Coming – First Step: Rent-A-Troll
(Via DailyKos) A company Advantage Consultants (no link for them, but click on thumbnail on the left for details) is offering its services to political campaigns. They promise to help political campaigns y being proactive:
Why wait for the attack? Launch your attack with a hurry of blog and forum comments aimed at all local media [...]
Harry Potter Leaked Online
(spoilers – if you care about Harry Potter, don’t read beyond the first paragraph!)
I just read the first couple of pages of the newest Harry Potter book, as well as the epilogue. Somebody managed to take photographs of every page of the book. It must have been an amateur, because he/she left the EXIF data [...]
Portland Blogger Dinner
Blogger Dinner in Portland, Oregon, sponsored by Jive Software. Looks like lots of interesting people will be there.
I haven’t been to any of these dinners yet, so I’m a little bit nervous, but I guess I might finally get to meets some of the people whose blogs I read every day and if the dinner is [...]
Links, Blogging, Facebook and Others
Ever since the great Facebook hype of 2007 started a few months ago, I have been wondering why I, who usually jumps on any new tech fad, am totally left unimpressed by it and really don’t care how much money it is worth.
That is, until a read a short piece by Matthew Ingram this morning [...]
Does Facebook Advertising Work?
The minor battle of the morning today is about a post by Luke on the Reach Students blog. According to his experience, flyer ads campaigns on Facebook get an abysmally bad 0.04% clickthrough rate:
We’ve run four targeted campaigns this year using its flyer ads, and each time the results have been disappointing.
Our most recent campaign [...]
ReviewMe Advertorials Launches – Now Advertisers Write Blog Posts for You
Just received an email from ReviewMe, a competitor of the infamous PayPerPost (with the main difference being that ReviewMe always had a disclosure policy – same principle, though).Their newest way to undermine the blogosphere is called Advertorials.
The basic premise is that now you don’t even have to write the spam post yourself – the advertiser [...]
Tailrank Still Empty
Mike Arrington managed to anger Kevin Burton of Tailrank last week when he pointed out that Tailrank has been mostly down over the last few weeks, yet nobody seems to care.
Today, it is still as down as it was a week ago. The news on the site is old (Google buys GrandCentral is the [...]
The Return of Steve Gillmor
Bad Sinatra. I am not sure if it is PodTech’s servers, but so far, I have only managed to see Steve piss off the receptionist at salesforce.com, but that alone is already worth the price of admission.
Good to see Steve back in the game, though. The demise of the Gillmore Gang, in all it’s strange [...]
