Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
If you're looking for hard core facts, then it's not always best to follow the crowd. But if you want to gage sentiment, then crowd behavior should give you a good idea of how the masses feel. It's not an exact science, but it's emerging rapidly as a ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
The emphasis now is on setting up websites where a ton of user-generated content is made. This can be a great thing, for a number of reasons, but with user generated content comes certain responsibilities. When people are allowed to generate their own HTML, potential pitfalls include:
1) Users ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
I've been running content websites for awhile, and they're tough to promote. People read content, sure, but it doesn't always make them stick around to do more. Take a look around at the strategy of every company now on the web and it's to try and engage users. ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
I realized that I'm always talking about Web 2.0 in this blog, so it's high time I got in the game. That's why I founded my newest website today. thumbd is the newest social website to hit the internet.
The premise is simple: it will be a ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
For a time period Google was a media darling, where they could seemingly do no wrong. Lately I'm noticing a change to that fact. Despite their big recent quarter in earnings, many are questioning their methods and objectives. One big problem is click-fraud, and this week you ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
The new Technorati is cool. I happened upon it this morning, and I was shocked to see I had made the main page. Not once but 5 times :) Then I realized the website looked completely different than it used to and that the stories on the ...
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
The more I read about click-fraud lately, the more I begin to think of it as the "Achille's heal" of the contextual ads game. If you don't stop it, people lose faith in the system and it goes the way of the Hula Hoop. Google has been getting ...
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Myspace is having image problems. Now they're getting worse. Myspace served up hacked ads to a million people. The folks ended up having spyware installed instead:
Using software that captures and analyzes Web traffic, La Pilla found that the installation program contacted a Russian-language Web server in Turkey ...
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
When you read a title like that, you probably think: "Handbags at dawn, ladies!", because he phrase "bloggers going to war" generally means two sissies are about to insult each other in their comment's sections. The folks at Pajamasmedia are where the actual fighting is.
With full-time editors ...
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
If you build a big website, or even a large network, you'll have people landing all over you pages. You need to think about where they land, because if you're not careful, they may become disjointed. More importantly, you need to try and warm them up and lead ...
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