Jul
25
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…
Jul
19
Going for Dinner
July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
Blogger Dinner in Portland tonight with Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang.
Jul
19
Google Misses Estimates - Stock Down 7%
July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
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 […]
Jul
19
iPhone Hacked to Work with Prepaid SIMs
July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
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 […]
Jul
19
TechCrunch Buys InviteShare
July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment
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 […]
Jul
18
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 […]
Jul
17
(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 […]
Jul
17
Harry Potter Leaked Online
July 17, 2007 | 2 Comments
(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 […]
Jul
16
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 […]
Jul
13
Links, Blogging, Facebook and Others
July 13, 2007 | 2 Comments
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 […]
Jul
12
Does Facebook Advertising Work?
July 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
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 […]
Jul
11
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 […]
Jul
10
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 […]
Jul
10
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 […]
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