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November 30, 2007
Where does a person need to click on an ad to generate a click? On the ad, of course! Er, maybe? This is a question Google has been experimenting with lately, by making changes to their AdSense ad units. As...
November 29, 2007
Alex Iskold penned a post the on Read/Write Web about the revenue potential of blogs in the long tail, aka blogs with little traffic. He's found a correlation between how much traffic a blog gets and how much money it...
November 26, 2007
Robert Cringely penned an article on PBS a few weeks back about a company that has a creative way to improve the efficiency of wind generated power. Rather than using windmills, which rarely run at full capacity due to inconsistent...
November 25, 2007
I'm a huge Amazon fan, but as I mentioned earlier, I have my doubts about the Kindle ebook reader. Here's an example of why I think Amazon has some doubts about the Kindle too. Check out the pricing examples for...
November 22, 2007
Tomorrow is the unofficial kick-off of the holiday shopping season. What technology gifts are you hoping to receive this year? Do you have your eyes on a Kindle? Have you made it 5 months without an iPhone? Also, what tech...
November 21, 2007
I have a theory that the two best audiences for online retail stores are the urban core and rural areas. Urban core areas do well because people living in high density areas tend to get everything delivered. Not just pizza,...
I have a weakness for eReaders. I don't know why, but I think they are a really nifty technology. You may have seen me swinging one around from time to time in a video using it as a very expensive...
November 20, 2007
As I reviewed the specs of the Kindle (Amazon's new ebook reader), I've come away wondering who the heck this product would be valuable for. Frankly, I can't figure out who the target market for it is, which leads me...
November 19, 2007
Technology Evangelist turns 2 today!This site started as an experiment and teaching tool. We hoped to teach ourselves about blogging through blogging, and have learned a lot through this process over the past two years. On the experiment side, I...
November 18, 2007
GrubHub.com, a Chicago based food delivery mapping service - they help you figure out who delivers to your address - has received $1.1 million in funding from Origin Ventures. We first met the GrubHub founders a year ago at Tech...
November 15, 2007
This past week, my wife and I wanted to watch the movie Motorcycle Diaries in preparation for a trip to Argentina later this year. We did so in three steps. 1. We're Netflix customers, so I ordered the movie on...
November 14, 2007
Believe it or not, I like Safari. I like the speed, I like the look and feel, I like the integration with .Mac. I have Firefox but frankly it doesn't feel very Mac optimized and crashes for me. Safari has...
November 13, 2007
There are a slew of video players on the market but not too many players that are open-source, cross-platform and support industry standards such as MPEG 4/h.264, RSS, etc. The defacto standard video RSS player in the industry seems to...
November 12, 2007
Marty Weintraub from aimClear Search Marketing Blog has become fed up with the mundane noticed some of his casual friends are pumping into Facebook, and he's not going to take it anymore. The challenge is, he still want to be...
November 11, 2007
. . . I'd . . . 1. Use Wordpress.org as the platform. 2. Host it with a reliable host like MediaTemple. 3. Burn the site's feed with FeedBurner. 4. Install a comments subscription plugin. 5. Install a "recent comments"...
November 8, 2007
I've noticed a spike in hits to our RSS feed from a site called Cullect.com and decided to do some investigating. Here's a shot of the site's "Welcome" page: That raises a question for me: if the site is pulling...
Rand Fishkin has been cranking out some serious Q&A threads on the SEOMoz blog covering everything from his whiskey vs brandy preferences, to things related to SEO. One question that seemed particularly interesting to me was how one should deal...
Ed is either crazy or brilliant. We're currently in a techie spat over what direction we should take with the phone systems here at TechnologyEvangelist.com. Ed has a really crazy idea that's either the best idea ever, or won't...
November 7, 2007
Why does Facebook convert profile email addresses to images from text? I noticed this while visiting a friend's profile where I realized he, sadly, changed his email address when he changed ISPs (dude, seriously, stop using email addresses tied to...
November 6, 2007
I've been thinking about how content is becoming more distributed lately, and thought I'd list a few examples of how this works in my life: 1. Meebo: I chat simultaneously with friends who are using Gtalk and Yahoo chat through...
November 5, 2007
Mark Cuban explained over the weekend that Facebook is in the social networking driver's seat since they have the most people with the most complete profiles - and they've done so using their real names, unlike MySpace. Since it's a...
I've been thinking about the conversation starfish for a bit now and came to the conclusion that one area where the starfish falls short is in giving proper weight to the various channels (or tentacles) represented on the starfish. To...
November 4, 2007
FeedBurner stats across the web took a nose dive today. For example, this site dropped from around 2700 to 1665 subscribers overnight. Zoli Erdos did some digging and got to the bottom of it. For some reason, subscriber counts from...
Darren Barefoot put together a great starfish diagram to help explain Robert Scoble's recent video where Scoble outlines how conversations move around the web from platform to platform. The idea here is that conversations aren't limited to just blogging, or...
November 2, 2007
University of Minnesota PhD candidate, Krista Kennedy, recalls a conversation that took place in a class she taught following a student's presentation about the $100 laptop project. An Ethiopian student shared his perspective on the value of this soon to...
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