Tax Site Visits and Dynamic Demographics
The demographics of visitors to a website or category of web sites can shift dramatically in a short period of time (Hat tip to Chris Hafer for pointing out the demo-shift in online tax filers). The chart below shows the...
calling Steve Jobs an opportunist
In Salon today, Cory calls Steve Jobs out on his coy efforts to throw up his hands and say "not my fault" when it comes to DRM.
Actions speak louder than words. Artists have asked -- begged -- Apple to sell their music without DRM for years. From individual bestselling acts like Barenaked Ladies to entire labels of copy-friendly music like Magnatune, innumerable copyright holders have asked Apple to sell their work as open MP3s instead of DRM-locked AACs. Apple has always maintained that it's DRM or nothing. These artists believe that the answer to selling more music is cooperating with fans, no
Links for 2007-02-23 [del.icio.us]
- Get A New Browser » Blog Archive » Yahoo releases latest YUI version
I was comfortable with other JS libraries like scriptaculous, prototype, and moofx among others. Once I tried the YUI library that became the defacto JS library for projects I work on. - Yahoo! centralizes its JavaScript network with free hosting
I think the Yahoo! Interface Library will continue to gain traction thanks to its heavy development, extensions, and documentation. It's already being used by large sites such as The Wall Street Journal and SmugMug and across the revamp of the
A start page on my own domain
With a quick copy and paste job using Kent Brewsters Pipes Badger and a few widgets from services I use, I now have what is a mostly sufficient start page on my own domain that displays my various forms of online expression. Really interesting stuff here.
A magazine I would love to read
Theres a magazine that Id love to read if someone published it (yes, the print kind). Of course, its about the Internet. Its about the stack that makes up the Internet, the platform or, as many people are calling it, the Internet Operating System. Its mostly technology. But its a little [...]
Links for 2007-02-22 [del.icio.us]
- Burning Questions • FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market
Looking at engagement across the top web-based aggregators, several top readers are driving the lion's share of clicks and views back to our publishers' content. - AdaptiveBlue | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
We believe that AdaptiveBlue’s services will simplify browsing, create meaningful recommendations, filter information, and enhance productivity.
Links for 2007-02-21 [del.icio.us]
- How to make printing web pages easy
There are many options and techniques you can use developing print layouts. Here is a quick overview of some interesting solutions you can use to generate print layouts “on the fly” - GigaOM » Digg to support OpenID
While OpenID3 got a big boost from AOL, the identity system has benefited from early support by small Web 2.0 start-ups4. Six Apart, Technorati, Magnolia - Netvibes Promises Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility
Links for 2007-02-20 [del.icio.us]
- The Ties That Bind: Connection Beats Page Views
A closer look at traffic numbers makes it easy to see why media planners may never treat sites like MySpace or Facebook the way they do other mass market online properties.
Podcasts on Business Blogging and SEO
A few weeks back I posted a couple of podcasts from the Professional Association of Innkeepers International Conference 2006. At that Conference I spoke at four different sessions. The two sessions I already posted were on email marketing one on the fundamentals and the other on advanced topics.
Now I have my other two sessions [...]
Now I have my other two sessions [...]
Beating the Google Sandbox (TrustBox)
My latest SEO Report Card addresses the mythical monster that continues to rear its ugly head the Google Sandbox. No Im not going to get into a debate about whether it exists or not. It does. End of discussion. What I am going to do is try to render some assistance to some [...]
Tim Armstrong on Future of Google Ads
Ad Age reports from a BofA chat session. "Consumers are on 24 hours a day, you should have all your products available to them," Mr. Armstrong said. He said he couldn't "think of any companies where there isn't room left to grow with us."...
Searchmob Roundup
Search Powered Predictions New Tech Reports From MSR: Making a Blogroll "Smarter" & Social Medadata and Email, Hello SNARF Compare "Text Stats" for Amazon.com "Search Inside the Book" Titles Search Engine Roundtable Gets Complete Makeover Accepted Papers: First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media...
"Chill Out, Big Media, We're On It"
Eric Schmidt in a Reuters story today: Google Inc., racing to head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief executive said on Wednesday. "We are definitely committed to (offering...
News: Google Biz Apps - No More Pretension, Google Goes for MSFT's Throat
Let's not pretend anymore, shall we? Google is looking to take Office out back and shoot it in the head. From the release: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 22, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, a new version of Google's hosted services for communication...
When Second Life Replaces First
Derek seems to be surrounded by people falling victim to Second Life these days.
This virus is spreading like wildfire... first my boss' boss found out about it, then all of our helpdesk people, now it's like spreading to other schools, and a good friend of mine it seems mentions at least once a day how she was doing this, that, or the other thing "in SL".
Yeegads, people, do all those things in the REAL WORLD. You know, The Big Blue Room. The room with the Scary Yellow Orb in the ceiling. The one those Luddites called in the ancient tongue, "Outside".
And that's where Star Trek: The Next Gene
The Hardest Thing I Have To Do Some Days
In the tradition of The Hardest Thing I Have To Do Every Day, I present another micro-quote:
The hardest thing I have to do some days is to keep my mouth shut (or refrain from typing into the "comments" box on a variety of web sites and/or clicking "submit").
In related news, my inbox still looks like that. Let's see if I can keep this up.
Coming soon: A post on "knowing when to ditch the database" and a related one on "how I attack scaling problems on high-growth web sites."
Yahoo! Tiger Team is Hiring Senior Software Engineers
[Note: Most of this comes from the standard job description... More from me at the bottom.]
Do you prefer to work on a wide variety of projects in a challenging environment? Have you ever felt that your job was monotonous or repetitive? Are you a builder, not a maintainer? Do you enjoy change? If so, Yahoo's platform engineering may have the job for you. Come be a part of our Tiger team.
The Tiger team at Yahoo is dedicated to providing highly skilled, senior engineers to a variety of projects. Tigers perform as an internal "consulting" team, providing short term resourcing to dedicated product engineering teams that have critical or time sensitive problems. In the past Tigers have contributed to highly visible products such as Y! Mail a
Building out the Wired blog network
At Wired we're working hard on a technology platform shift that will let us relaunch the site with loads of bells and whistlesin June. This involves engineers, "QA" and "release candidates", all of which is exactly as exasperating as it...
Pop Goes the IPO?
Michael Copeland’s latest Business2.0 article predicts a "tidal shift" towards the emergence of tech IPOs in the next couple months. While his language is perhaps excessively strong, I think that his sentiments will likely prove to be correct. There are a number of real growth technology-based businesses which weathered the storm earlier this decade that have emerged commanding both healthy top lines and bottom ones. And some of these even have “.com” in their names. It’s inevitable that the climate will change towards realizing the merit these businesses posses for going public is real. It’s been interesting to hear similar...
Social Media Monetization via Acquisition at FIM
Om Malik wonders "why did Fox buy Strategic Data" saying that "It is becoming obvious 2007 is the 'show me the money' year for MySpace and other FIM acquisitions." At face value, this deal is a notable move of taking important vendor technology in house that will help bolster the revenue base of the property within a larger corporate entity. However, I see this as a larger step for the industry as a whole piecing together what will eventually be a myriad of ways that social software will be significantly monetized. While the executive quotes talk about the replacement of...
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