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August 31, 2007
Lately, I've been working on the concept of "virtual resident experts." I define the term like this: People participating in an online group with identified and respected skills. In the offline world, groups of friends manage to identify who the...
August 30, 2007
Many have criticized the iPhone for not having a development platform. Apple has said that AJAX is the development platform. Developers say that's a lame answer and want integrated apps. I think AJAX may actually be the future of mobile...
August 29, 2007
I have mentioned GrandCentral.com from time to time but have realized that I rarely if ever actually use the service. For those not in the know, GrandCentral is a unified phone service that allows a user to combine all of...
August 28, 2007
I’m one of those really strange people who hates the status quo. If I become comfortable with a system or product then it’s time to change it up, stop using it or find an alternative. There are always ways to...
August 27, 2007
Robert Scoble has published a series of videos explaining how he things sites like Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook have the potential to "Kick Google's Butt in Four Years." His theory is that Google is too easily gamed by SEO (search...
Bloglines has launched a vast improvement to their popular RSS reader in a beta format at beta.bloglines.com. Any Bloglines users are able to access the new beta at this time. First impressions: 1. They've improved the colors. It's less painful...
August 26, 2007
Blogging can be a powerful marketing tool for businesses with interesting stories to tell. I believe this is especially true in businesses where building a personal relationship with propsects or showcasing one's expertise has the potential to translate into sales....
August 25, 2007
Jordan McCollum from Marketing Pilgrim breaks down the results of two recent online advertising studies that showed web visitors becoming more blind to online advertisements. An eye-tracking study by usability guru, Jakob Nielsen included this image reinforcing how hard it...
August 23, 2007
This annoys me: I found a site with my favorite password on it. This is a problem since the combination of letters and numbers is absolutely unique. The only way it would show up on the web is if I...
August 22, 2007
A new type of comment spam popped up on Technology Evangelist today: scraping the post itself for comment content. The comment below showed up on this post. When I saw that comment in my comments feed, I thought, "That sounds...
August 21, 2007
This may seem pretty obvious, but it really hit home with me tonight: most bands should use MySpace as their primary online communications platform. Why? Because it's simply too hard to create what MySpace already has in place. That, and...
August 20, 2007
I don't know if Yahoo Pipes has gained much traction since launching, but I do know that I find the service useful. For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a relatively easy to use platform for creating RSS feed...
August 19, 2007
Malok asked in the comments on my pre-Inman Connect Conference post for some insights. This is a shot at that. The theme this year, as I mentioned before, was blogging. And they did a great job covering the topic. Real...
August 18, 2007
I've been trying to figure out why newspapers don't make more money online, and think I stumbled across one reason that's so obvious I previously overlooked it. It's summarized well in one sentence on the Minneapolis StarTribune's advertising information page:...
August 17, 2007
It's great to hear that the Where I've Been application on Facebook has been acquired by TripAdvisor.com. UPDATE: they have not been acquired. Biggest Facebook App Acquisition Yet: TripAdvisor Acquires Where I've Been for Reported $3 Million Just two months...
August 16, 2007
Bruce Nussbaum made a great point in a post about big ad agencies steering big businesses toward technically interesting sites that may be a bit too far ahead of the customers to warrant serious marketing efforts today. Things like Second...
August 15, 2007
Insight Racing stopped by Comtrol in Maple Grove, Minnesota on August 15th to show of the car they plan on racing in this year's DARPA Urban Challenge. The DARPA Urban Challenge is an unmanned car race where cars are built...
BusinessWeek is reporting that municipal WiFi initiatives aimed at providing free or nearly free Internet access are not meeting expectations: Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering These potholes in the nation's wireless rollout of civic ambition—criticized by many as an improper...
August 14, 2007
There are many signs of SMS addiction. Here are a few: 1. Sore thumbs. 2. Friend's giving you the stink-eye when you text below the table in restaurants. 3. Getting honked at when stop-lights turn green. But beyond those, one...
I mentioned earlier this week that hyperlocal has more to do with advertising than content but didn't really explain how this can be accomplished. Luckily for me, Chris Silver Smith penned a post over at Search Engine Land that covered...
August 13, 2007
In recent months, I've switched over to using Flickr for image hosting for Technology Evangelist rather than hosting the images on the TE server. This has some advantages which I'l outline below, but also may have a disadvantage worth considering....
August 12, 2007
It was great to hear earlier this week that the NY Times is considering killing their Select premium program by providing open access to their top columnists. This is something I've written about before. My concern with the Select program...
August 10, 2007
Jeff Jarvis has an interesting post over on BuzzMachine describing Edgeio's new premium content widget. In his post, he explains that this could be used by smaller time content producers to create premium versions of their stuff. For example, a...
August 9, 2007
Flickr has finally gotten around to improving their web based photo uploader. The previous one was so bad, I would download the client based uploader to friend's computers in order to upload more than 2-3 photos. You had to click,...
It's not about hyperlocal news. It's about hyperlocal ads. Newspapers have yet to figure out how to serve relevant ads to truly hyperlocal audiences. For example, there is a family owned Mexican restaurant near my house that makes great burritos....
August 8, 2007
I ran into my good friend Mark Eibner at the Inman Connect conference in San Diego at the blogger party thrown by Zillow.com. Mark was shooting some videos with people attending, including me, using an RCA EZ201 Small Wonder point...
August 7, 2007
Dear Mr. Steve Rubel, I love what you have been doing with Twitter lately. The stream of consciousness tweets on things that you find interesting is interesting to me. However, you've got to get in the habit of using TinyURLs...
August 6, 2007
At last week's Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco, moderators including Curbed.com's Lockhart Steele and Inman conference founder Brad Inman, took questions from the audience over SMS to their iPhones. This had mixed results. On the positive side, it allowed...
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