Hiogi Q&A Community
Hiogi is a pretty interesting service, basically a Q&A site based in Berlin that gives stuff that isn’t worth much to people who successfully answer submitted questions. Lot’s of growth and apparently a hot company right now.
Wish I could tell you more but the site is in english and all the Q&A is in German [...]
Facebook Suckage Syndrome
I guess Facebook really is just for college kids to poke themselves on. Oh well.
[From Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Facebook continues to suck «]
Yeah, pretty much. I don’t know anyone doing “serious stuff” on Facebook, and vampires and food fights are so last year. This is a [...]
LinkedIn: We’re Selling Ads For $75 CPM
Yeah, I don’t doubt that LinkedIn is selling such a high CPM, but the problem for them is that I just don’t spend a lot of time in LinkedIn so the opportunity to lever up that CPM is limited. I’d bet that the average time spent when compared to other social networks is low, which [...]
Kalex Systems, Turning Waste Heat into Power
I met the CEO of a Kalex Systems recently, really neat guy with a fascinating company. The company’s technology is based on the Kalina Cycle, a method for recovering heat and converting it into mechanical power. I get excited about technologies like this because so much of the available energy at our disposal is thrown [...]
Marvel Moves To Shut Down TechCrunch Iron Man Screening
UPDATE: Mike writes that this has all been worked out. Apparently it was Oracle who was the bad actor, pun intended, in this movie drama for they are hosting a similar screening and didn’t like the TechCrunch competition. The lesson learned, if any, is that it pays to aim first before firing a shot, had [...]
We’re Still Defining Web 2.0
If after 6 years we’re still defining it, time to move on…
[From “Top Tech Bloggers Define Web 2.0? « socialTNT]
Newspaper Audience Decline Again, No End Till Zero
This is hardly surprising or unprecedented. Newspaper’s print audience is literally dying off and they are pulling the plug on all the free copies they give out, all of which means circulation numbers are terrible, again. But make no mistake about it, while print circulation tumbles, online traffic grows by impressive jumps which makes one [...]
Amazon Kindle or Bezos’ Windmill?
Amazon is highlighting the fact that Kindles are available for immediate shipment following long delays following unprecedented early demand. That Amazon is devoting the choicest real estate on their site to the Kindle, as well as publishing their shareholder letter, underscore the commitment that Amazon is making to this device.
I’ve been watching the Kindle with [...]
Community Managers and Managing Communities
I wonder how most organizations are handling the role of community manager. I’m curious where a community manager reports. Marketing? HR? Customer service? I wonder how organizations are justifying the cost, and what they believe the role entails for level of effort. How are companies using the role in either direction?
[From [...]
DMA Irony
Is it not fantastically ironic that the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) puts their news site behind a registration page? If anyone should be aware of the bounce rates when registration is required, it should be the DMA. But it gets worse, when you actually do click on create a visitor account you are presented with [...]
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