Feb
13
I cryptically talked about a new services that was going to go public very soon in the last few days.
If you want to know more about it, read this very detailed post by Louis Gray about Adam Stiles’ LinkRiver, as service that I think a lot of you will be using very soon.
LinkRiver takes its […]
Feb
13
Techmeme’s RSS feeds and Twitter bot have always been a bit in a bit of a sorry state when it came to getting info to reader quickly. The algorithm wouldn’t put items into the feed until they had archived a certain ‘importance’. Because of this, there was often a considerable delay between a story showing […]
Feb
13
Twitter,
When I first met you, you asked me what I was doing - and I was immediately smitten. Ever since, we have had a stormy romance. I kept sipping on the sweet nectar of your updates. I made friends with your friends, I took you with me on road trips, we went to Europe together. […]
Feb
12
Some bad news for online advertisers: according to a study presented today at the iMedia Brand Summit, 6% of the online population are responsible for 50% of all clicks on display ads and those 6% are not even close to being representative of the online population at large:
While many online media companies use click-through rate […]
Feb
12
Rumor: Google Likes Your 404 - Reality: Not Really
February 12, 2008 | 4 Comments
According to a number of reports today, Google’s latest beta of the Google Toolbar hijacks 404 pages and reroutes them to a Google 404 page with ‘Suggestions,’ including some hints for what to do next and, of course, an option to search on Google.
The reality though is different: Google isn’t taking customized 404 pages and […]
Feb
11
Linkblogs need full feeds
February 11, 2008 | 3 Comments
Steven Hodson’s piece today on the continuous importance of mainstream media source for blogging and his dislike for those mainstream news organizations that only publish partial feeds made me think of how partial feeds fit in with the current trends towards using linkblogs as a measure of an article’s popularity.
The answer to me is simple: […]
Feb
11
Congrats to the guys and gals over at VentureBeat, a blog that focuses on technology VC news and is run by former Jose Mercury News journalist Matt Marshall. According to Matt, they have just raised $320.000 cash from a number of angel investors:
VentureBeat has grown steadily since launching more than a year ago. We’ve been […]
Feb
11
For a long time now, CNN has been trying get its viewers to send in video reports of current news events under the iReport moniker.
Now, according to MediaWeek, it looks like they are about to move all this content over to its own site, iReport.com:
Basically, CNN is trying to create a YouTube for news video, […]
Feb
11
Starbucks just became useful
February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
I still hate their coffee and pretentious attitude about their coffee, but at least for those who like it, Starbucks just became a lot more useful as a spot to get some work done.
According to an AT&T press release this morning, the coffee giant is ditching T-Mobile as it’s WiFi provider and going with AT&T […]
Feb
11
Twitter users can finally look forward to a week where they will actually receive all their messages (hey - there is nothing wrong with some optimism). According to the latest update on the Twitter blog, their newest hire quickly figured out what had gone wrong:
Twitter has hired another amazing engineer (and just in time, too). […]
Feb
11
Tomorrow is going to be a pretty big day for books and the web. HarperCollins is going to start giving away a number of free books online and RandomHouse is going to start selling books by the chapter - or at least the chapters of one book, for now.
All of this also comes after […]
Feb
8
Friday Afternoon Thoughts
February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments
Mashable is talking about Yahoo Live as if it were a lifecasting service. It really isn’t. I was trying it out with MG Siegler last night. Once it actually worked, the user experience was very good. But it’s a video chatroom. It’s a great way for a small group of up to five people to […]
Feb
8
Twitter Downtime - Assetbar to the Rescue?
February 8, 2008 | 5 Comments
The guys over at Assetbar, a new Google Reader competitor in early beta mode, have made an interesting proposal to host a proxy for Twitter’s database on their database system:
It so happens that our new distributed database technology is rather well suited for twitter-style high-volume reliable messaging. If there is sufficient community interest we could […]
Feb
7
Friendfeed just added yet another function to its already pretty impressive lineup. Now you can also post small messages directly on your Friendfeed - Twitter-style - that can be seen and commented on by your friends.
FriendFeed’s founders Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh are really on to something here. Within just a […]
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