Just noticed that Robert Scoble thinks that audience size doesn’t matter. Instead, he says advertisers care more about the quality of the audience:
In the past few years I’ve had some success building audiences, but I found that that’s not really what’s important. It’s not what advertisers REALLY care about.
Now, there are varying opinions about this. [...]
Obviously I missed the whole Google Reader thing last week, but with the revelation that Google might be working on tying more ’social’ functions into GMail, questions about Google, privacy and what it means to be ‘friends’ online are surfacing once again.
According to Alex Chitu, Google is working on something that looks a lot like [...]
AOL has decided that funding the Netscape browser project was a bit of a waste of time lately and announced that it will shut it down on Feb. 1st. From the announcement on the Netscape blog:
AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get [...]
I guess the attention that Twitter has been getting because of its utility in getting news out quickly has taken its toll. Twitter is down.
With an ecosystem starting to crop up around Twitter, uptime is going to become more and more important. Unless Twitter wants to become the new Friendster, they have to get their [...]
Been recovering from my after-Christmas coma and reading up on the news, so here are a few thoughts:
People were really upset that their shared feeds in Google Reader turned out to be… wait for it… shared?
I love Dave Winer’s work, but does releasing a glorified Mac-only screensaver count as a major product release worthy [...]
I was about to write the following in my 2008 predictions:
We will see more companies find creative ways of using twitter for viral marketing.
However, I think I can cross that out, because today I found out that Mimobot, a company that makes and sells “art toy USB flash drives” is doing something very smart on [...]
I might have missed this before, but when I just went to check out some videos on MSNBC.com, it was given the option to embed the video on my blog. Very nice, but it doesn’t work just yet – it is coming ’soon.’
I think this is a very smart move by MSNBC. Instead of trying [...]
Who would have ever thought that Mike Arrington was going to get interviewed about presidential elections on cable news?
I really like the idea of getting the tech world more involved in politics and now that the readers of TechCrunch are going to endorse a candidate for the US presidency, this seems to be going in [...]
According to a press release on ThinkSecret.com, the Apple rumor blog and Apple Inc. have settled their lawsuit and ThinkSecret is shutting down:
Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret [...]
Update: looks like I’m not the only one who was annoyed by this.
[rant] While I find myself disagreeing with Jason Calacanis at times, I find that, over time, I have come to respect him and that I enjoy his contributions on the Gillmor Group (his blog has gotten lame, though – just pimping the Mahalo [...]
Forbes yesterday night posted a list of the 25 top web celebrities.
For the Techmeme crowd, the list makes total sense, but with the exception of Perez Hilton, Matt Drudge and Markos Moulitsas, no normal person would ever recognize any of the names on the list.
Did you ever ask a non-techie friend who Jeff Jarvis [...]
So I take half a week off from blogging, and the first discussion I see coming back is somebody reviewing XP and loving it over Vista.
Let’s look at his conclusions (remember, for effect, he pretends XP came out after Vista):
To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves [...]
So Scoble is leaving Podtech (I hope this is true and Scoble doesn’t slam me again for posting an unconfirmed rumor – Scoble hasn’t posted anything yet).
From TechCrunch:
Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he says. He will likely be joining Fast Company to start Fast [...]
(Via NYTimes)
Looks like Iran’s president (you know, the one some people are very scared of, even if he doesn’t have a lot of actual power), is a blogger.
I won’t go into politics here, but could you imagine George Bush having a blog – with comments?
I don’t know how much of the writing on his [...]
