The PR Agency of Satan
UPDATE: I picked up the title for this post while looking at a Twitter search result, not realizing that it was the title of Jacob Morgan’s post on the same subject… so in the interest of credit where credit is due I point you to his post on this subject.
This morning I opened up my [...]
Saving the New York Times, Or Not.
Mike is correct to assert that many U.S. and international newspapers are structurally impaired and should simply disband but the debate in newspapers has shifted away from print vs. digital to one focused on digital monetization. The data is what it is, newspaper websites continue to grow traffic by double digits yet the incremental increases, [...]
SpectrumDNA and Social Media Engines
SpectrumDNA is a really neat company based in Park City, Utah that has developed substantial IP around delivering “social media engines” that are essentially branded applications that companies can use to deepen their connection with constituent groups.
Jim Banister, long time friend and all around really smart guy, has been at this for a while, long [...]
Techrigy SM2 – Social Media Monitoring
Early last year Rochester, NY based Techrigy launched SM2. Dubbed a social media monitoring service, SM2 is representative of a growing class of services that are going beyond Google Alert type filters to a comprehensive monitoring solution that aggregates content from a virtually unlimited number of network sources.
As an aside, Google News Alerts has really [...]
Why the TechCrunch Economy Will Falter
Reading yesterday that AppLoop has apparently shut down impressed upon me a fundamental flaw in the startup economy promoted by a wide swath of pundits and proponents, that starting is more important than sustaining.
Now, we’re hearing rumors that the startup is in trouble, and they appear to hold some truth. For one, the company’s website [...]
Digg’s Recommendation Engine
We’ve been developing filtering technologies based on behaviors and expressed likes/dislikes. It’s hard stuff and one thing is evident, relying on a single mechanism or ideology for recommendations is a strategy fraught with risk.
If you rely on active participants, people training the recommendation engine, you simply won’t get the data inputs necessary to deliver good [...]
What makes a blog post popular?
Our friends over at mSpoke posted part 1 in a series about what makes blog posts popular. This is an in-depth look at the factors that contribute to popularity, here Paul is looking at post writing quality and correlation to popularity.
To start, we’ll need a bunch of feed items and measures of popularity [...]
Social Software Notes
Two thoughts.
We’ve been using Yammer but it’s not clear to me what advantages this has over IM and chatrooms, providing you are already using those behind your firewall (we use Jabber). Having said that, Yammer is a very nice UI and the twitter-like desktop and mobile clients are great. It’s possible to have too much [...]
Google Blog Search, Still a Work in Progress
Here’s why the revamped Google Blog Search left me unimpressed:
Just how in the hell are they filtering and organizing content if the top stories in the Business category are from Huffington Post, Autoblog, and Daily Kos (there were 2 Daily Kos top stories, the other below the fold)? First impressions are everything for a product [...]
When Web Services Turn Off
Michael Totten is one of the more successful independent journalists and in addition to advertising revenue he relies on individual subscriptions in order to cover his travel and equipment costs. I had subscribed to his site last year and it wasn’t until he posted this note today that I realized I had not been seeing [...]
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