Google Checkout Making (Really Small) Strides Against PayPal

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under News | 3 Comments

So Hitwise presented some data a few days ago on how Google Checkout was faring against PayPal given that they are both trying lure online shoppers this holiday season.Â It is claiming that Google’s marketshare rose 158%, while PayPal’s lead dropped in half.Â This interpretation is actually misleading, because Google’s Checkout numbers really went from […]

Chris Anderson Explains The Long Tail In His Own Words

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under Multimedia, New Media, News | 1 Comment

If online video is your thing and you’re interested in Web2.0 concepts, you may just want to hit up a recent video that was posted of Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired.Â In it, he explains in his own words a term he coined, and what is turning out to be one of the defining terms […]

Blogging In The Middle of a Civil War

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

So, if you can for a minute, ignore all of the political rhetoric that lines this blog, you ought to pay attention to the stuff right in the middle.Â In italics, and on a grey background, is a long series of text that has been lifted from blogs and forums from people in Iraq.Â Right […]

Google Helping Geeks Lose Poundage

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

In light of Google shedding Google Answers, it was with great interest I read about the multitude of projects Google has its tentacles in — including a small project called “The Google 15″.Â Written by Brian Fitzpatrick (aka The Fitz), the Google 15 is a module that you can attach to your Google homepage, and […]

FakeYourSpace: How Losers Become Popular

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under General, Social Media | 4 Comments

MySpace and Facebook are great social tools that enable people to socialize, meet up, plan events or just find out about what is happening in their best friends life. But for some being inside a social network is a chance to actually become popular, something that is actually harder to do online than off.
But for […]

Yahoo! Copies Google With Cooler Social (Mobile) Network

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under General, Social Media | Leave a Comment

Anomalies are very rare in life, unless of course you’re an online junkie in the web 2.0 field. Apparently it seems that Yahoo!, known recently for missing great opportunities and creating worse ones, seems to have copied an idea from the search engine king’s Dodgeball and taken it to the next level.
What did Yahoo! create […]

Has Digg peaked, gone out of fashion?

November 30, 2006 | Filed Under General, News, Social Media | 2 Comments

Oliver Ryan seems to think so, over at CNN Money. He points to some prominent bloggers and their statement that Digg just has gotten boring, and picks up BuzzFeed as the possible new King on the Hill.
BuzzFeed, well, itâ€™s a site crawler looking for buzz (duh!), but with editorial control. I havenâ€™t followed it, but […]

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End of Minnebar coverage for 2008
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

That marks the end of the Minnebar coveage for 2008 - I’m off to the Metrodome to watch my beloved Boston Red Sox beat up on the Minnesota Twins.
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3 Reasons to Use Disqus
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

The Disqus blog commenting service is catching on - with many popular blogs such as Scripting News signing on to use the service.
VC Fred Wilson talks about three reasons to use Disqus in a recent post:
2a) Email Replies - Disqus emails every comment to the blogger. If the blogger wants to reply to the comment, […]

If You Were in Charge of the Social Networking Industry…
May 10, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | Leave a Comment

If you were in charge of the social networking industry, what social product or service would you offer?
WordPress has always been defined as “social” when it comes to creating an online presence and community, after all, a blog is all about community building, which differentiated it from a static HTML site.
I see many of […]

Statbot takes a look at the all time TechMeme Leaderboard
May 10, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

Statbot has taken a look at the all-time leaderboard for TechMeme.
Of course, no one should be surprised to find that TechCrunch is at the top of the list…. interesting data, however, nonetheless…
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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 2 Comments

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

Colleen Coplick Talks PR over at BloggerTalks
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great […]

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