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September 30, 2006
Dead 2.0, the critical Web 2.0 site written by an anonymous blogger went offline earlier this week after pulling a Lieberman. A Lieberman being a site that goes offline due to excessive bandwidth use, causing the host to suspend the...
Memo Details Hewlett-Packard Leak Hunt - The Smoking Gun "With the Hewlett-Packard scandal now triggering congressional hearings and criminal probes, it seems some of the computer giant's executives are hesitant to talk about the firm's extensive hunt for the...
Greenpeace is putting the pressure on consumer electronics companies to become more green by using less toxic chemicals in their product. One company they've chosen to single out in this campaign is Apple Computer who, according to Greenpeace, is very...
September 29, 2006
Real Estate Service To Index Property Listings By Green Features - Treehugger ?¢‚Ǩ?ìOregon?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS?¢‚Äû¬¢) Board of Directors recently agreed to expand its database by spring 2007 to include information on energy efficient and green home...
This was originally a response to an email question I received from a colleague about social bookmarking sites, but it turned into a blog post. While it covers social bookmarking in general, it focuses primarily on del.icio.us for examples: The...
Marshall Kirkpatrick has put together a breakdown of the features offered by eight SMS networking services. I think the key sentence in his post follows (emphasis mine): Techcrunch ?Ǭª A look at eight multi-person SMS services "Probably first popularized by...
September 28, 2006
A Peek Inside TechCrunch's 100k Subscriber Milestone: Burning Questions "For those participating in the "Guess How Many Jellybeans in Today's FeedCount Chicklet" contest, you may have noticed that TechCrunch recently surpassed the 100k subscriber mark. Given this major milestone,...
Ross Mayfield writes at WebProNews about maxing out his Gmail account and what a terrible mess he's in due to Gmail's limited tools for finding the huge file attachments that are clogging his inbox. Mayfield mentions that he'd much rather...
Frank Gruber, AOL's latest fresh, new, and exciting employee posted about the launch of AOL's new Pictures service: AOL Pictures Launches With New Features : Somewhat Frank AOL Pictures also offers an Ajax interface an has introduced tags, comments and...
September 27, 2006
Thank you to Rick Klau for writing a follow-up post about Bill Tancer's analyis of "homes for sale" searches and their correlation with actual home sales. A month ago, Tancer publised a post on his Hitwise blog describing a correlation...
Rock Paper Scissors World Championship Rocketboom covers the Rock, Paper, Scissors world championships in Toronto. (tags: rock paper scissors rockpaperscissors toronto) Laptop with GE employee data stolen - Security - MSNBC.com "An employee laptop containing the names and social...
Netlash offers some insight into the challenges faced by search engines, including Google, when it comes to providing country-specific search results. The graphic below demonstrates a substantial drop-off in traffic to a Dutch web site when it was moved to...
Gmail stopped responding after I sent a message to a colleague. Maybe I killed it?This isn't really newsworthy or interesting. I just thought I'd post this as an experiment to see how many other people are experiencing the same thing....
September 26, 2006
I have had a couple of people ask me which phone they should buy, the Treo 700p (Palm OS version) or Treo 700wx (Windows Mobile 5 version.) This is a tough question as both have their pros and cons. I have just finished my testing of the Treo 700wx so here's how I compare them:
Paul Scrivens beats down ten Web 2.0ish companies he feels have either failed to grow, failed to catch on at all, or have simply fallen on their face in his Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers list: Now many of these...
Smackfoo breaks down an Ebay bidding strategy based on auto-refreshing an auction during the final countdown to decide how much to bid and when: smackfoo ?¢‚Ǩ¬? chronology ?¢‚Ǩ¬? geek 101 - eBay sniping "Here?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s my pet hate. eBay sniping by...
September 25, 2006
Jeneane Sessum raises a very interesting point about Second Life. Presumably, Second Life users are using the site for entertainment, so may choose to have a somewhat different personality than their first life (aka. real world) version. If that's the...
More universities banning Skype San Jose State University has banned Skype on campus. Apparently, Skype can be a bandwidth hog, and potential security threat for universities. (tags: voip skype security bandwidth college p2p) http://allsimps.com | All The Simpsons you...
Robert Scoble points out that Google is missing a huge opportunity by not providing video demos of their services. It seems fair to assume that Google thinks they've created great products worth telling the world about. So why do they...
Michael Arrington reports on a yet-to-be released feature from PayPal called DropBox:Techcrunch ?Ǭª Blog Archive ?Ǭª Exclusive: Mysterious Paypal Secure Storage "PayPal is preparing a new feature on a select range of users that allows them to securely store files...
September 24, 2006
Katie Fehrenbacher has written a glowing review at GigaOM about a new photo sharing startup where: ". . . a user snaps camera phone pictures on the go and uploads them to a private network of approved friends, who can...
September 23, 2006
Steve Rubel posted a review of Fortune's cover story on Google that includes this interesting quote: Fortune magazine has a lengthy cover story on the chaotic way Google runs. What's clear from the piece is that Google is desperately working...
Click Fraud: The dark side of online advertising "Over the past three years, he has noticed a growing number of puzzling clicks coming from such places as Botswana, Mongolia, and Syria. This seemed strange, since MostChoice steers customers to...
College coaches face the daunting task of tracking the performance of hundreds of recruits from all over the country - if not the world - in an attempt to figure out who's worthy of recruiting. Once identified, one of the...
September 22, 2006
First we were Farked. And now we've been TotalFarked:TotalFark is basically a paid version of Fark.com for power-farkers. More links, faster access to cool stuff, the ability to ignore ignoramuses, and other fun features. Find out more here. So, what...
Yet another report of compromised private data from the US government:1,100 Laptops Missing From Commerce Dept. - washingtonpost.com "More than 1,100 laptop computers have vanished from the Department of Commerce since 2001, including nearly 250 from the Census Bureau containing...
I've written before about how important it is for real estate agents to provide lots of high quality photos with their real estate listings. Don't waste your prospects or your own time driving people to properties you could easily show...
We've been Farked. As in Fark.com'd. Here's what it looks like from a traffic perspective. The graph illustrates the spike in traffic this caused when someone submitted a link to a Technology Evangelist article on September 18th. The Farked article...
September 21, 2006
MarketingSherpa on the State of SEO & PPC Industry - Social Media, Search Marketing, SEM, SEO: Emergence Media "MarketingSherpa has put out its ?¢‚Ǩ?ìState of the Search Marketing Agency Industry 2006 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù 10 New Charts?¢‚Ǩ¬ù for 2006. In it,...
The author of the popular devil's advocate Web 2.0 blog, Dead 2.0, has been outed. Well, not completely outed, but a blogger named Nik Cubrilovic figured out who "Skeptic" is and blogged about it at the link below. Cubrilovic wrapped...
If 90% of the 100,000 videos views per day on YouTube violate copyright laws, does that mean YouTube can only honestly serve advertising against the remaining 10,000 viewed? How much advertising do you need to sell against those10,000 video views...
Rohit Bhargava brought up a very interesting point about why the NFL is able to generate bucket loads of advertising dollars from a game consisting of four fifteen minute quarters: 5 Reasons the NFL is the Dominant Sports Brand in...
September 20, 2006
It's pretty amazing to realize that $700,000 can basically cut an entire country off from partipating in world markets, from accesing international news, and from communicating with people around the globe:Zimbabwe internet slows to crawl as debts unpaid - Yahoo!...
Back in March, I published a list of spam keywords we use to moderate or auto-junk comments on this blog. The list is designed to automatically trash comments using words that have nothing to do with the topic of this...
Tread's Colombian tyre laptop bags - thegreenguy "Most laptop bags are dull. Crumpler is one note-worthy exception but an even better one is Tread's new range made from recycled Colombian truck tyres - and I've managed to get my...
September 19, 2006
How BitTorrent Works - Howstuffworks "BitTorrent is a protocol that enables fast downloading of large files using minimum Internet bandwidth. It costs nothing to use and includes no spyware or pop-up advertising." (tags: bittorrent p2p tutorial torrent) Online word...
Yahoo has accounted a partnership with Acer to make Yahoo the default search engine on Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers shipped with new computers. Yahoo search to run on all PCs of Taiwan's Acer - Yahoo! News Yahoo Inc. has signed...
September 18, 2006
T.E.D.D.Y. - 2D to 3D Interface - TechEBlog "T.E.D.D.Y. is an innovative ?¢‚Ǩ?ìJava-Applet Drawing Program that takes the 2D images you draw and renders them in 3D.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù See it in action after the jump." (tags: 3D Drawing software visualization...
Jennifer Eubanks of Capture the Conversation posted earlier today about a NY Times article on the influence of blogs on businesses serving business travelers. The Times reports that business travelers are using blogs to share their experiences about businesses they...
PVR Wire is reporting that Systemax has launched a series of new Mini PCs that may be "prime candidates" for use as PVRs: Systemax Mini Media Center PC - PVR Wire Systemax has launched 3 new computers in what it's...
September 17, 2006
It sounds like Google's figured out that's it's not enough to be on the right side of certain political battles, like Network Neutrality. By starting a PAC, Google should be better positioned to 'educate' Washington on important issues. Google will...
Don Dodge has an interesting post about what it means to be a one in a million blogger today. According to Dodge, with approximately 50 million blogs on the web today, some simple division tells us that there are fifty...
I put out a request the other day for someone to step up and take Technology Evangelist into triple digits for Bloglines subscribers one of you did it! Thanks so much for the help. We're proud of reaching this Bloglines...
September 16, 2006
Link Building Advice from the Best ?Ǭª Online Marketing Blog "Unless there?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s any doubt, I am a linking fanatic. I appreciate links like they?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re gold. When I talk about link building with our team, I can never stress enough...
Snakes on the Tarmac Originally uploaded by edkohler. Ben and I just heard and explosion while waiting for our flight from JFK to MSP this morning. It turns out that the ramp for our arriving plane blew up while...
September 15, 2006
The August 2006 Hitwise report on the Internet's most popular search terms points out how inexperienced most searchers are. Here are the top ten terms: Rank Search Term Volume 1. myspace 0.92% 2. myspace.com 0.58% 3. ebay 0.29% 4. mapquest...
September 14, 2006
Montreal Airport Does Have Power Outlets Originally uploaded by edkohler. This is a quick follow-up to last week's post about Montreal's airport not having power outlets available to travelers awaiting flights. First, there are two airports. My comments are...
I noticed tonight that Technology Evangelist currently has 99 subscribers through the Bloglines feed reading service. We currently are averaging around 500 subscribers, making Bloglines' 20% market share our 2nd most popular feed reading service behind Feedblitz and ahead of...
Andrew Goodman reports that Yahoo search results are now displaying a PayPal shopping cart icon alongside sponsored search results from retailers using PayPal's checkout system. Is this a reaction to Google Checkout's integration with Adwords? What does this tell us...
September 13, 2006
Participatory Culture, creators of the popular Democracy video feed reader and player, have come out with a new video feature that should make it easier to find great new video content. The new service called The Channel Channel, is just...
September 12, 2006
Bill Stumpf, 70, a Designer of the Aeron Ergonomic Office Chair, Dies - New York Times "In 1994, Mr. Stumpf and Don Chadwick, an industrial designer in Los Angeles, created the Aeron chair for Herman Miller, the furniture company...
As I write this my laptop is telling me that my 60 Giga Byte hard drive is almost full and I must do something about it. This is serious because my laptop and my smart phone are my inseparable companions. They are my constant companions and connect me with the rest of the world through Wi-Fi and a Sprint data card.
An interesting move by Yahoo into free group conference calling: Yahoo Messenger offers free group conference calls - Yahoo! News "Yahoo Inc. is offering free group conference calling services from Vapps Inc. to the roughly 80 million users of Yahoo's...
September 9, 2006
I had my first experience with online storage site Box.net tonight. Back story: I found myself in a situation where I needed to share 5 media files with Ben that were up to 80MB each. Email was clearly not the...
September 7, 2006
Reuters is reporting that Facebook users are disturbed by new tracking features built into the site making it easier for users to keep up to date on their friend's profile changes: Web social site Facebook hit by privacy protests -...
September 6, 2006
Back in February, BoingBoing reported that Montreal's Trudeau airport capped power outlets to prevent travelers from recharging their needy laptops before boarding: Boing Boing: Montreal airport denies electricity to laptop users "Alec Saunders reports that Montreal airport has put covers...
September 5, 2006
The largest daily newspaper in Alaska - Senator Ted Stevens' home state - published an editorial yesterday backing network neutrality. A short excerpt: Net neutrality - Anchorage Daily News - Our View "Net neutrality is hardly a heavy-handed government intrusion...
September 4, 2006
?¢‚Ǩ?ìAustralia?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Son Steve Irwin Killed in Freak Accident?¢‚Ǩ¬ù was the tragic headline I woke up to this morning. As everyone across the globe now knows due to the power of the Web, Steve died after being stung by a stingray...
September 2, 2006
After five years of trying on three continents on August 30th, Steve Fossett and his co-pilot Einar Enevoldson flew a glider high above the Andes to set a World Altitude Record of 50, 699 feet. Their glider had released...
Amazon.com's rent-a-grid | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-08-30 | By Jon Udell "Amazon.com is on a roll. In March, the company launched the Simple Storage Service (S3), a metered disk in the cloud that I praised here and discussed...
September 1, 2006
Educational uses of Google Maps: Google Maps Mania "Here is a collection of links that will give you ideas and show you how Google Maps and Earth is being used at the school level. Parents could even use these...
Glenn Fleishman of Wi-Fi Networking News wonders whether Minneapolis residents will make the jump from their current cable or DSL ISPs to the soon to the launched municiple WiFi network Minneapolis Doesn't Pick EarthLink: Wi-Fi Networking News "As has happened...
Jeneane Sessum offers a likely commonly shared perspective on the ethics of splogs:You don't have to be A list to be splogged. "I've said about other sites that incorporate my RSS feed, as long as they aren't making money off...
YouTube has added a new "Colleges on YouTube" feature making it easier for students to share video content based on their school affiliation using the popular video service. FaceBook is the largest player in college social networking today, but could...
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