Feb
20
Link Attraction BS
February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
I really like ReadWriteWeb, but the guest post they are running about “Link Attraction Factors: Getting Dugg and Going Viral” by guest author Dan Zarella is the kind of post that tends to get under my skin.
Dan did some interesting research on how Digg stories go viral and what kind of keywords attract Diggers, but […]
Feb
20
FeedDemon vs. GoogleReader
February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
For the last few days, I have been pondering a move away from GoogleReader and back towards FeedDemon. For somebody who writes about webapps as much as I do, that move must seem almost blasphemous. However, I have become more and more frustrated with the latency of Google’s feed reader. It can often take hours […]
Feb
19
Beware of the FeedBurner
February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
Mashable is running an interesting post about FeedBurner right now that highlights the trouble not only with the service itself, but also with a large number of recent Google acquisitions.
As Louis Gray noted on the weekend, FeedBurner had removed part of the FeedBurner statistics that many bloggers and podcasters heavily rely on. By now, that […]
Feb
17
High Standards for Bloggers
February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
I did say I wasn’t going to say anything about this topic anymore, but Mike Arrington’s post on TechCrunch about Fred Wilson’s post about ‘journabloggers’ just needs some commentary.
I’m not interested in the personal politics that are clearly at play here between Arrington and Wilson, or even about the exact details of the story of […]
Feb
17
I loved the discussion about pro bloggers today, no matter whether we call them journabloggers or anything else, because it has really highlighted my theory of the lazy bloggers who write quick and dirty posts that not only add little to the discussion but are often hardly researched at all.
Steven Hodson sums this up very […]
Feb
17
Something wrong with Techmeme?
February 17, 2008 | 6 Comments
Deep Jive Interests is complaining that Techmeme didn’t pick up on the death of HD-DVD, which is definitely a very, very big story, but instead has been features a post about the failure of S3 on the top of the page.
In Techmeme’s defense, I have to say that there is definitely something wrong over at […]
Feb
16
Adopt Early, Adopt Often - and then?
February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
The last few days have seen an interesting discussion about the role of early adopters and early (often harsh) reviews between Louis Gray, Mark Hopkins and, to some degree, Steven Hodson. I just want to add a few thoughts about the role of bloggers as early adopters.
I have beta-tested a fair share of new websites […]
Feb
15
Are Techmeme Discussion Links Worth Reading?
February 15, 2008 | 3 Comments
Tech for novices looked at the reactions to the news about Google’s video ads on Techmeme yesterday and pretty much came to the conclusion that most of the blogs listed under the discussion links on Techmeme weren’t worth reading:
But what is the need for top guys to regurgitate the same news ? Guess its the […]
Feb
15
Just a couple of thoughts in no particular order - it’s Friday after all and so far, not a single bitchmeme has sprung up…
Who ever thought that a computer in the cloud would be completely immune to outages? Nobody ever promised that as far as I can see. Even Amazon only promises a 99.9% uptime.Also, […]
Feb
14
Assetbar, a new online RSS feed reader, looks like it is taking some of the advice it has been getting from the blogosphere in the last few days and is working on simplifying its service.
Why?
Let me show you a screen shot of what they site looks like right now (click on the image for a […]
Feb
14
Richard MacManus has a good post up on ReadWriteWeb today about how often press releases show up on Techmeme these days, especially those from press release wire service Business Wire.
Especially the back and forth between Microsoft and Yahoo basically played out through press releases, so it would make sense for them to be featured heavily […]
Feb
14
According to the NYTimes Bits blog, Google is slowly introducing video ads next to its text ad format.
I haven’t been able to track one of these ads down yet, but they are supposed to go live today. According to Google, this new ad format corresponds to the recent changes in how the company displays search […]
Feb
14
It’s a minor change for sure, but Twitter just added a reply button to its web interface.
Given that most people I know are using clients like Snitter, Twhirl, TwitBox, or Twitterlicious, it makes sense for Twitter to try and make the web interface more useful. After all, at some point Twitter is going to have […]
Feb
13
Seesmic is open for your business - but I already left…
February 13, 2008 | 6 Comments
Thanks to its founders amicable nature and good marketing strategy, Seesmic (the “Twitter of online video”) quickly became the talk of the town when the first beta invites were released.
Now, Seesmic not only has received $6 million in funding, but it also opened up the door to the public at large, as Venture Beat reports.
My […]
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