Maybe the constant pounded was getting on the PayPerPosters nerves (okay – that’s probably just a fantasy of mine), but PayPerPost is now going to be called Izea.
ProBlogger sums up what I also think are the reasons for this move:
PayPerPost will continue to run as a service – it’s really just a launch of the [...]
Dave Winer does a great job of summarizing up the etymology of OpenSocial while taking a stab at Facebook and Google at the same time. I agree with his basic idea. There is no need for us to get locked into one or the other social network. The data trail we leave on these sites [...]
I thought Google was supposed to launch its big social initiative on Nov. 5th? However, the news today is that Google will announce OpenSocial on Thursday.
TechCrunch is in the know (as is the NYTimes):
The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on Thursday), goes well beyond what we’ve previously reported. It is a set [...]
Looks like Facebook is going to jump head first into the advertising market. According to TechCrunch, they are readying an advertising platform called SocialAds.
SocialAds will be an attempt to be like Google’s AdSense, except that it will allow ads to be targeted to Facebook members’ individual interests and profile data rather than the text on [...]
I don’t find myself agreeing with Steve Rubel often, but his screed on how the Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid hits a home run:
I am sorry to be a party pooper on conventional wisdom, really. But I miss the days of 2004 when the class that includes Flickr, del.icio.us [...]
Today, some news about the next version of Gmail was announced during Google’s analyst day.
The good news: lots of under-the-hood changes that will speed up Gmail (did anybody ever complain it was slow?) and, over time, stronger integration with the rest of Google’s portfolio. There are also some reports of an updated contact manager.
The bad [...]
If Apple thought that they could design a system that would keep hackers out of their phones or operating systems, they were quite wrong.
According to various reports today, a number of hackers have already gotten Leopard to run on their “Hackintoshes.”
When OS X was first released for the Intel hardware, it took the community quite [...]
Ignite Portland last night was definitely bigger and better than anybody could have expected. Dawn Foster, Josh Bancroft, Raven Zachary , and Todd Kenefsky clearly put a lot of thought and effort into the organization and it showed.
Great venue, great food, and, most importantly, great presentations ranging from unicycling and keeping chickens to why [...]
Update: Scoble says the Fake Steve post is BS. Scoble also claims that Podtech is making a lot of money from the commercial channels (God knows who watches those, though). Time will tell how imminent Podtech’s demise really is.
It’s kind of sad when a fake blogger has a scoop, because who knows if you can [...]
Good news for everybody who has hated TechCrunch’s internal links like I have: they are being discontinued as of today.
We started linking to CrunchBase often in our posts. This tends to drive some readers absolutely nuts because they want to go to the company, not CrunchBase, when they click a link. As of today that [...]
Tell me this is not completely ridiculous:
The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values the three-year-old Facebook, which will bring in about $150 million in revenue this year, at $15 billion.
Facebook is a fad, no matter what Scoble says. Facebook is [...]
And how did this make it on Techmeme again? An article with a completely wrong headline and a “comment” that is just a rip-off of the wrong article.
Come on guys – comment, add, analyze. Do something. You don’t need to regurgitate the news, even if you are WinBeta.
Update: sign that TechMeme works – just as [...]
A few months ago I pointed out that CrunchGear hardly gets any comments (I mean, they can hardly get one comment on an iPod rumor post). Looks like Arrington and Co. have realized that as well, so they started the the CrunchGear Best Friends Forever site, where anybody can be John Biggs for a minute [...]
Looks like Google came down harsh today on link farmers and those it suspects to do something similar (think “Search Engine Optimizers”).
TechCrunch reports that some Weblogs Inc. sites were hit especially hard:
AOL owned Weblogs Inc was not immune, with leading Gadget blog Engadget dropping from PR 7 to PR5, Autoblog (6 to 4) and DownloadSquad [...]
