Watch out Gmail, here comes Yahoo! Today, Yahoo announced that they will begin offering unlimited mail space to all their users. Not even Gmail offers infinite space. You need to pay to obtain 10 GB of space with Google Apps for your domain. Now that Yahoo is launching unlimited space, the primary focus of competition [...]
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If you haven’t already heard, the blogosphere is buzzing about the death threats that Kathy Sierra has been receiving. The talk has grown so big that even the BBC is covering the story. I think everyone agrees that posting death threats is unacceptable behavior. Much of the discussion focuses on how Kathy is receiving these [...]
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Back at the beginning of December I wrote about how Facebook would become the king of social networking. Almost 4 months later it has yet to occur, but there are signs that things may be changing. Over the weekend Andy Kessler from the Wall Street Journal got a chance to interview Mark Zuckerberg, the founder [...]
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Hanging out in a bar and talking to a bunch of techies. That’s what I saw when I first turned on Justin.tv. Justin.tv is a new site that is covering Justin’s life 24/7. The main story is that there are 4 guys creating a new startup and this will document their experience through the eyes [...]
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On Thursday I talked about a one day movement called “Bum Rush the Charts”. This movement was an example of a failed social media marketing campaign. What exactly happened? Bum Rush the Charts did not reach out to the proper people who could make the movement a success. If you want to succeed at social [...]
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In response to Tim O’Reilly’s comments on the state of the San Francisco Chronicle, Dave Winer wrote a piece about what changes should be occurring in the journalism industry. He suggests that they should reform journalism school and then have the industry embrace bloggers. While I don’t think that old media is crumbling, they need [...]
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This morning I was reading about the growth in podcasting over the past year. Surprisingly (or not), there was large growth in podcast awareness but small growth in use. Why has the growth in use been so small? I think much of it is due to the fundamental way that podcasts are used. In contrast [...]
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According to the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, NBC has put together a partnership to try and rival YouTube. The aim is to make the system more effective for advertisers. Will this strategy work? Well, I think it has a chance given the big players that are involved, but targeting advertisers as [...]
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According to the Wall Street Journal, CD sales for the first three months of this year plunged to all time lows, down a whopping 20% from a year ago. The drop in CD sales was larger than the growth in digital downloads. The Wall Street Journal article also points out the fact that the chart-topping [...]
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I’ve begun working on a new system for social media monitoring. While I can’t speak about the specific details on how the system will work, there are some things that I’ve concluded in the process of building the system. There are three components to effective social media measurement: Hyperlinks – Hyperlinks are what determine the [...]
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