Jul
10
Marc Andreessen wrote an interesting summary of the lessons he learned since joining the big, scary world of blogs.
I just want to pick up on two ideas here. Marc says the comment system is broken and that’s why he turned off the comments on his blog (though Scoble is coming to his rescue):
Blogging is clearly the […]
Jul
9
(Via Problogger) A company called BuyBlogComments (no link for them) promises its clients to do some pretty cheap SEO by spamming people’s blog comments. It’s pretty cheap, with a heave volume discount (100 comments for 19.99 - 1000 comments for 199.99).
It’s, of course, a horrible idea, for both the clients and the blogosphere.
A, even though […]
Jul
8
I fondly remember my Commodore64 as my first computer. Many a night of my early school career was wasted on playing Bruce Lee, Who Dares Wins, Defender of the Crown, Barbarian and International Karate.
According to the Register, though, that classic computer of old still has some good uses. Seems like ebuyer.co.uk runs nothing else but vintage 8 […]
Jul
8
I wrote a story about the OpenMoko phone a few weeks back. That was before the actual phone was available.
Starting today, OpenMoko is taking and fulfilling orders for the Neo 1973 Base and Advanced Developer Preview 9for $300 and $450 respectively).
The diggers picked up on this (though with a somewhat misleading title) and there […]
Jul
7
Don’t Pay for Pownce Invites
July 7, 2007 | 5 Comments
Kevin Rose’s Pownce project is getting so popular that people are willing to pay for invites.
I say, don’t do it. Leave a comment on this post and I will send the first five commenters an invite ASAP (ASAP=sometime today).
Once you are on Pownce, feel free to add me as a friend. I am simply […]
Jul
6
Ryan Carrigg of Compete.com reports that Netflix’s Watch Now feature raced passed every other competitor’s offering and now, after a few months, has three times as many unique visitors per months than anybody else.
That really doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but it is good to see some real data for this. Just a […]
Jul
6
This might be the least surprising news of the day:
U.S. sales of digital music albums grew by 60 percent in the first six months of 2007 but failed to offset the rapid sales decline of compact discs, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan.
Total sales of albums were down by 15 percent for both digital and […]
Jul
6
I am surprised Valleywag isn’t all over this. Here is a post Michael Arrington’s Crunchgear ran on July 5th:
In case you guys missed it this morning, you can now sign up for your very own commenting account which will allow you to do cool things in the future. It’s really easy to put yourself on […]
Jul
6
After a flurry of rumors about what company was going to get the exclusive iPhone deal for what part of Europe, O2 today denied having signed any papers yet. Only seems to be a question of time, though:
The portion of network revenues demanded by Apple is believed to have been behind Vodafone’s decision not to […]
Jul
5
I wanted to say something witty about “free energy” company Steorn’s flop of a demonstration today, but, it is so much of a non-event, I rather let the Simpsons do the talking… The only thing that still baffles me is the motivation of these people.
Technorati tags: steorn, fraud
Jul
5
Hugh MacLeod Does Some Excellent Trolling
July 5, 2007 | 3 Comments
I thought hard if I was going to say anything about this. Hugh thinks that Facebook and Twitter have erased the A-list. That the A-list is dead.
Then suddenly, along comes stuff like Twitter and Facebook… et Voila! Suddenly, social networks start being successfully created without the “A-Listers” having to act like “Hubs” [or “Human Social […]
Jul
3
It didn’t take the enterprising Apple hacking community too long to start hacking the iPhone. After only three days, a computer science student, Erik Twes, from Darmstadt, Germany, ran a rather simple hacker tool against the publicly available restore image for the iPhone. I guess it is a sign of globalization when hackers with no access […]
Jul
2
Very frustrating weekend after I had a story on the digg homepage on Thursday afternoon. My hosting company, 1&1 couldn’t handle the traffic and the sys admins changed my .htaccess file to point to 127.0.0.1 for all my domains, effectively wiping me off the internet and barring me access to the .htaccess file so that […]
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