Oct
10
I must confess that after months of holding out, I joined Twitter. Just like Adam C. Engst, I just couldn’t convince myself that there was any use to it. Here is how he put it:
Frankly, I put much of the blame on Twitter itself, asking as it does, “What are you doing?” as a way […]
Oct
10
Scoble just posted an image of his blog’s statistic. Interesting read. Looks like he gets a lot of traction from Techmeme, as well as a lot of hits from RSS subscribers and his Twitter followers.
I commend Scoble for being so open about these numbers. Too many bloggers treat them like a holy shrine that […]
Oct
10
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(via Doc Searls) In Vanity Fair, Michael Wolf describes the rationale behind Newser.com (a very standard news aggregation site) and talks about the value of news.
It’s a long article, but well worth the read if you want to understand how some journalists feel about the internet.
Here are just some random thoughts about it and […]
Oct
9
Techmeme’s Influence
October 9, 2007 | 5 Comments
Bobbie Johnson over at the Guardian is talking about why we all overestimate Techmeme’s influence. He is mostly looking at the fact that Techmeme doesn’t refer a lot of traffic to their site, even though they are firmly establishing in the Top 100:
But in taking a swipe at the diminishing influence of the biggest sites […]
Oct
9
A teacher in New York is using songs and iPods to teach students English. Fair use/educational use, or a potential lawsuit? Did she buy those songs? Did she buy them 60 times? 300 times? Once? Bittorrent?
[…] in 2006, Ms. Poli received 60 more iPods. Last May, the district decided to buy 300 iPods to expand […]
Oct
9
There are now six new cities with streetview in Google Maps. So far, the highlight, though, must be this video Google made to celebrate the update (ok - it is actually quite annoying but weirdly catchy):
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Oct
9
Ideahustle.com has apparently scraped every one of my recent posts. And they don’t even run ads…
Here is how every one of the posts starts:
Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt
I hate scammers… but the, as I was writing this - their account got suspended. […]
Oct
9
According to Dave Winer it does. Seems a bit too dramatic for my tastes, but this could end up being dramatic for Twitter if Google plays this right:
Scoble called while we were at lunch, saying this isn’t about Twitter, it’s about Facebook. Probably so.
In any case, our world changed today, while we were in a […]
Oct
9
Google’s Video Units seem like an underwhelming idea at best and, in my opinion, a rather stupid idea.
Why would anybody care to watch a video that might (there is no guarantee!) be slightly related to the content? A text link doesn’t cost me any time to glance at, but watching a video is something few […]
Oct
9
Looks like Google is getting into the Twitter game. Congrats to Jaiku. I am sure Google could do a nice job integrating them into the new Google Phone software, GTalk, GMail etc.
I don’t know many people on Jaiku, unlike Twitter, but Leo Laporte seems to be their biggest fan.
I always wonder, though, why does Google […]
Oct
9
Google’s AdSense Video Units Block AdBlock Plus
October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment
Google, in a move to make some money out of YouTube is allowing publishers to embed videos with integrated ads into their sites.
At the same time, though, if you have adblock+ installed on your computer, Google will only say: “We’re sorry, no videos were found.” I guess that was to be expected. Though this would […]
Oct
9
(via TechCrunch) PayPerPost today launced a new service called URLbrief, basically a copy of tinyurl.com’s service.
It is, of course, always a sad way to wake up and realize that PayPerPost is still around, and it is even sadder to see them expanding, but what is the purpose of URLbrief?
Unlike tinyurl, it doesn’t seem to […]
Oct
8
Looks like Vonage and Sprint worked out a deal:
Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. on Monday took a step back from the brink, saying it has settled for $80 million a patent suit filed by Sprint Nextel Corp.
On Sept. 25, a jury in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., found that Vonage […]
Oct
8
Seesmic
October 8, 2007 | 2 Comments
Loic Le Meur, who is mostly known for running Le Web, is starting up a new video site, that wants to be something like a mash-up between Twitter and YouTube.
Just a few questions:
Loic is French, how does he start a company in the US? I couldn’t even get a job at McDonalds here when […]
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