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I wrote about this last week, studying vertical ad networks has been really eye opening for me. It’s the long tail in advertising… The improved technology has helped. Ad networks once served ads to pages where no advertiser wanted to be, like pages that get few hits or those with controversial content. Now, though, many [...]
The cause of hunger in the world is not a lack of food but poverty. Poverty is a consequence of dysfunctional economies suffering under corruption, dictatorships, and fascism. The same factors that contribute to poverty also contribute to global insecurity that drives up energy prices. You want to drive down food prices? Then create conditions [...]
Congratulations to the entire RWW team, they collectively author one of the best new media sites covering technology. Sean Ammirati was over to our house for dinner on Saturday night and we were talking about the evolution of blogs to fully featured new media sites, RWW being a great example of this. What is interesting [...]
And I thought it was just a slow weekend in Twitterville… interestingly, I was getting Twitter updates in Alert Thingy via FriendFeed, not sure why it worked there but not in other Twitter clients or their own web interface. Siegler’s comments about service status updates is really customer service 101 for companies like Twitter. I [...]
hey, you put a Spinal Tap reference in something, I’ll blog it. After staring at me, and I think wondering if he could shoot me, the screener gave an answer right our of Spinal Tap: “But it says 4 ounces.” (But it goes to 11!) [From Megan McArdle (April 18, 2008) - Interesting point about [...]
Just like Thwirl and Snitter totally changed the way I interact with Twitter and drove up my usage as a result, Alert Thingy is doing that for FriendFeed. As Dennis says, who btw I ripped off the title for this post from, the result is that I am evolving in my behaviors with social networks [...]
We did two things this week that are interesting for those of you interested in how behavioral data is being used to drive new feature development in RSS. First and foremost, we released Inbox 3.0 for Microsoft Outlook and it takes advantage of your attention stream in the form of APML to organize your feeds [...]
Here’s a good account of the games vs. movies debate: “We can also look from the standpoint of gross mischaracterization of fact. Most of the articles are qualified by the ‘box office’ limitation. Games sales are bigger than box office receipts. As my law professors used to say, ‘true but trivial.’ How many of those [...]
This is actually a bigger deal that it would appear on the surface for people who are self-hosting WordPress, like me, and use widgets. The way it works in v2.3 is that you can use WordPress widgets or drop script blocks in the template, but apparently you can’t have both approaches in the same sidebar. [...]
Funny moment in the NewsGator board meeting yesterday when @karlgco had the sudden realization that everyone could see the 3 way tweet chat between her, @bfeld and myself. I think there is something in here about how we have become desensitized to the notion of public email. What’s also interesting is how I have collapsed [...]