Mar
13
Can FriendFeed survive once the A-List joins?
March 13, 2008 | Comments
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Louis Gray’s post on Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves set off another round of interesting discussions about FriendFeed.
Louis gathered a list of notable tech bloggers who are using FriendFeed (no idea why he included me in that list - unless this is some pretty smart linkbait…):
Although it hasn’t even been a month since FriendFeed [...]
Mar
12
Google will let you sell your own ads
March 12, 2008 | Comments
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is planning to release a new advertising product very soon and that, I think, is going to be very interesting for bloggers who run ads on their sites:
Google Inc. plans to announce a new service that Web publishers can use to manage their online ad sales and serve [...]
Mar
12
The @ has taken over
March 12, 2008 | Comments
After all is said and done, maybe the greatest innovation to come out of twitter is going to be the @username convention.
Today, as I was testing out DropBox with a little text file titled thank-you.txt, thanking Tony Hung for figuring out a backdoor way of inviting people, I noticed that some of the newcomers took [...]
Mar
12
Is the NCAA Tournament the Last Hope for Joost?
March 12, 2008 | Comments
I don’t think this is enough to get Joost into the mainstream (or any stream, for that matter), but NewTeeVee reports that Joost is going to provide streaming coverage of March Madness (that’s college basketball for those of you outside of the US).
I guess CBS is trying to get something out of its investment in [...]
Mar
11
Back in Town
March 11, 2008 | Comments
Looks like I didn’t miss much during my trip over the extended weekend.
Apparently there was some bickering about a bad interview at SXSW, a rather lame new site (that isn’t even new) that shows RSS feeds, new browser betas, and the usual totally unsubstantiated rumors about Digg getting acquired by somebody.
Some cool things happened, though:
LinkRiver [...]
Mar
4
Some Thoughts about the Office Live Workspace
March 4, 2008 | Comments
Microsoft today announced the the Office Live Workspace is now publicly available.
‘Lame’ seems to be the word that sums up most of the commentary. Most of the commentators I have seen so far bemoan the fact that it is not, in fact, a version of MS Office packaged as a web app and that it [...]
Mar
4
Alexander van Elsas’s latest post looks at the role of marketing in Social Networks. It’s a long post, but I think you won’t regret reading it.
Among other things, Van Elsas basically argues that marketing in social networks is not a worthwhile enterprise.
Here is why: According to van Elsas, there is zero cost to our virtual [...]
Mar
4
Viagra spam and eHarmony
March 4, 2008 | Comments
Looking through my referral logs, I noticed a weird spam site (no link, of course) and ended up on the first page shown below (click on the image for the full resolution picture).
Notice the “Why eHarmony” and “Diversity” links at the bottom.
Turns out the spammers copied and pasted the footer from eHarmony. Must have seemed [...]
Mar
4
Monday Night Thoughts
March 4, 2008 | Comments
Today was a pretty quiet day in the blogosphere. Maybe too many people are off enjoying themselves at SXSW and getting ready for Mix08.
Because of that, nothing really popped up on my radar that was really worth a lengthy blog post. As a substitute then, here are just a few thoughts for today:
Netscape is officially [...]
Mar
4
A social network for those who love ghosts, UFOs and those voices from the afterlife
March 4, 2008 | Comments
I checked - it’s not April 1st just yet, but TechCrunch reports that Steven Spielberg is involved in the launch of a social network for those who loves everything paranormal:
Hollywood super producer Steven Spielberg is preparing to launch a new social network, we’ve heard from multiple sources. The focus will be on users who’ve had [...]
Mar
3
How much aggregation is too much aggregation?
March 3, 2008 | Comments
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I don’t use a lot of social networking kind of tools. I never got into Facebook or the horror that is MySpace and I’m not on LinkedIn; but this year, I really started picking up a Twitter habit and for the last couple of weeks, this has been complimented by a Friendfeed habit as well.
And [...]
Mar
2
Do I want personalized news?
March 2, 2008 | Comments
Greg Linden has a very interesting article about the current state and future of personalized news services up on IEEE Spectrum online.
He does a great job at looking at the technical issues and limitations behind personalized news services and, I think, makes a good argument for how these algorithms can be a very useful tool [...]
Mar
2
Newspapers are Dead - what else is new?
March 2, 2008 | Comments
A few days ago, I was awaken from my post-lunch coma by a door-to-door newspaper salesman, trying to get me to sign up for the local paper by dangling a $20 grocery shopping card in front of me. When I told him I didn’t need the paper, he asked if I read my news online. [...]
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