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July 30, 2007
There were some great comments in Saturday's post regarding the preference Firefox together with a Google Reader has for Atom over RSS feeds. I'll highlight a few below with comments. MKR pointed out that I would be presented with an...
July 29, 2007
Later this week, I'll be in San Francisco for Real Estate Connect. A huge conference for the real estate industry where the big wigs come together to discuss where the industry is heading. Each year, the conference has a theme...
July 28, 2007
I was subscribing to a few new blogs this evening when I noticed something strange with the way FireFox together with Google handled the subscription options. Rather than giving me the option of subscribing to the RSS 2.0, RSS 0.92,...
July 26, 2007
This finally dawned on me while discussing RSS readers with a guy I met at a bar earlier this week: RSS is most valuable for infrequently updated RSS feeds. Why? Do you really need an RSS feed to send you...
July 25, 2007
VentureBeat has an interesting story explaining that some companies are seeing a spike in traffic to their sites due to their integration of their applications with the Facebook platform. For example, HotOrNot.com offers a Facebook interface for their site: Surprise:...
July 24, 2007
Building online communities is no easy task. The first big challenge is actually getting people to care enough to register and contribute to the community. This then leads to a second problem: community moderation. This has been a hot topic...
July 23, 2007
Dear media sites: I am so tired of truncated RSS feeds. Why do you continue to work under the assumption that you're better off forcing people to click through to read blog posts or news stories rather than allowing them...
July 21, 2007
Jules at floobergeist raises an interesting question about whether Facebook could lead to the end of class reunions. If you're continually in touch with your old classmates and up to date on their lives, what's to be gained from a...
July 20, 2007
Howard Owns has a great post on Eight historical mistakes the newspaper industry made where he goes over newspaper's slow adoption of blogging, online communities, leveraging local blogger's talents, winning the car and real estate market, and becoming better community...
July 19, 2007
This afternoon is turning out to be a rough one for Google. First, they reported less than expected earnings that sent the stock price dropping $40 as of this writing. Then NetApplication's monthly newsletter shipped with news that Yahoo has...
David Kirkpatrick from FORTUNE magazine hosted an interesting forum last week called iMeme where big thinkers in we technology got together to talk about future trends. Preceding the now completed event, Kirkpatrick threw a set of questions out to invitees...
I'm starting to see a two cases of Facebook spam that Facebook will need to address. This seems critical to me, since a very similar issue is one of the things that's led me grow to hate MySpace over time....
July 18, 2007
Anil Dash raised an interesting point about the human nature of tagging in a post titled, "toread is tobehuman" where he reflects on the optimism shown by people who tag items with the toread tag. toread is tobehuman The most...
July 17, 2007
National efforts at hyperlocal media seem to consistently face the same challenge: how to find hyperlocal advertiser willing to pay enough to support the content with a few bucks left over for profit. Unfortunately, this has been a challenge for...
July 16, 2007
Yes, according to Caribou Coffee's WiFi access, which blocks the site, Geeks Are Sexy. This is a great example of how imperfect parental filters can be. Geeks Are Sexy is a sexy site . . . if you're into technology...
July 12, 2007
If you're a blogger running a blog on the Blogger platform (a domain that's something like yaddayadda.blogspot.com) you should take advantage of the update to Blogger's FeedBurner integration ASAP. FeedBurner reports how many people have subscribed to your blog along...
July 11, 2007
Marc Trachtenberg is a co-founder of Teliris, where he holds the positions of deputy chairman and chief technology officer. Howard Lichtman of the Human Productivity Lab talked to Marc about a number of product announcements Teliris made at Telepresence...
July 10, 2007
With the hype surrounding the iPhone it seems that everyone wants it to do everything. Before I start my list of iPhone 2.0 "wants" I thought it would be prudent to mention that never before have I seen a smartphone...
I recently had a chance to sit down with an editor from a local newspaper site - not a major daily, but something closer to a free weekly that ends up on your doorstep - to discuss their web strategies....
July 9, 2007
We're now living in day 11 of a world with iPhones, and are starting to find out that the beautiful device isn't perfect. I've yet to hear of someone switching back to their previous phone, but for those who haven't...
July 8, 2007
Marketing Pilgrim has been on a user reviews kick lately as it pertains to online retail and has come up with some really interesting nuggets. The crux of the posts have been about whether user generated content on retail sites...
July 7, 2007
Mitchell Harper raised an interesting question on his blog by asking whether people with online credibility should be leveraging the power of their name's Google search results to inform prospects. He explains that the 3rd party content found on Google...
July 6, 2007
Gmail's spam filtering is pretty darn good, but it does grab the occasional false-positive. That can be a drag, especially if you have thousands of emails in your spam folder. Here is a simple trick that should help you narrow...
July 5, 2007
TaxiWiz.com has launched a site that calculates the approximate fare for taxi rides between two addresses. It uses Google Maps to plot and calculate the driving distance between two points and uses that information to calculate the fare. For example,...
This morning was the first time I've ever received a one-word Twitter message with that said so much: Crowning. Marc Nathan of Bulldog Financial in Houston spent this morning with his wife at the hospital while she gave birth to...
July 4, 2007
Now that the iPhone hype is finally winding down (I think) it feels like a good time to reflect on where the product got it's start. Remember the iPod? They still make those non-phone versions of the iPhone. And here...
July 3, 2007
Google launched a new official communications blog for Gmail at: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ The first post went live this morning with a welcome message, so there is not much to look at yet, but if it follows the path of other official...
This is quite possibly the most boring video ever published to the Internet. Unless you happen to be one of the people who waited in line for an iPhone at the Mall of America or know someone who did. The...
July 2, 2007
One question that Justine seems to receive with every fresh encounter she has while in iJustine mode is, "How does your setup work?" or some variation on that. Perhaps this will help explain how one lifecasts these days. First, she...
July 1, 2007
I had an interesting experience with my brand new iPhone: it didn't work. I would have full signal from AT&T, even in my basement (which seems to be the only provider to do so) and then all of a sudden......
I managed to reduce the bounce rate of a blog I manage by 16.5% by adding one simple plug-in: Related Posts. For those of you not familiar with the "Bounce Rate" metric, it's a measure of single page visits. People...
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