Twitter suddenly became pretty popular. While reading through my feed reader I came across at least 10 posts about Twitter. I have to say that I’m not quite sure what the reason is for being on there, but I’ll give it a try. If you don’t know what Twitter is, it is a site that [...]
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Let me preface this post with the fact that this is a technically oriented post. If you don’t program WordPress then this post will be of no use to you. After browsing the web trying to find an effective recent posts plugin for a client’s website, I decided to make my own. I couldn’t find [...]
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How cool would it be to take a random independent musician and boost them to the top of the charts by spending a measly 99 cents? That’s what Bum Rush The Charts is seeking to accomplish. They are asking that all people that read and listen to blogs and podcasts, purchase 1 song on March [...]
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Yesterday I read about how Ex-Google Answers researchers are launching their own answers website. In the spirit of answers I decided to head on over to Yahoo! Answers to find some questions that I could answer. To my luck I found a plethora of great questions that I could answer. For example alter_3m0 asks “I [...]
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Yesterday, Simon Willion announced that you can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID. This is good stuff. Next step, major sites need to start accepting OpenID as a valid login. I think that the real tipping point will happen once major email sites (Gmail, Hotmail, etc) and social networks (MySpace, Facebook, etc) decide [...]
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Within the past 72 hours 3 major companies have all announced their entry into social networking. On Friday, the Guardian reported on Reuters decision to create a financial MySpace. On Saturday, the New York Times published an article citing Cisco Systems’ intention to acquire Tribe.net. Then yesterday, USA Today unveiled their new website that adds [...]
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With the announcement by O’Reilly Media of their decision to enter the early-stage venture capital market, I’ve been thinking a lot more about venture capital. Two weeks ago, at the Future of Web Apps conference, I had the pleasure of listening to a speaker from Index Ventures (who has invested in companies including Skype, Last.fm, [...]
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With the recent announcement of Yahoo’s Brickhouse program it seems that more and more people are catching on to the idea of tech companies creating venture capital divisions. At the beginning of December I wrote about how Google should start up their own VC division. Yesterday, Arik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek.com examined ‚ÄúWhat to Do with [...]
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Although Annalee Newitz of Wired magazine spent a lot of time making a fake blog, it ended up making a pretty good story. Annalee tried gaming Digg by using the pay-per-digg service User/Submitter. In the whole scheme of things, I’m not quite sure what the benefit of doing this was except for the fact that [...]
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According to the Google AdWords team, the click fraud rate of advertisers is 0.02%. These fraudulent clicks are found via advertiser inquiries. I would also like to report that today Ecuador announced that they have officially eliminated 99% of government corruption. While I’m confident in Google’s ability to measure their click fraud rate, I’m equally [...]
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