My pal Steven Johnson, he of wonderful books, had a third child recently. To celebrate, Steven asked his pals to link to his birth announcement post. For a brief moment, Steven's new son Dean was one of the top results in Google for "Dean". Then, abruptly, Dean was gone…
Steven wonders, why?
Has Dean been labeled a black hat spammer by Google? Matt, can you help us?!
Read MoreDavid P of BB pointed me to this hilarious site where folks are busy "Web 2'ing" well known corporate logos. Very funny. There are literally hundreds of them, most are really well done. A total send up of the design grammar that has come to say "hip, cutting edge…
David P of BB pointed me to this hilarious site where folks are busy “Web 2’ing” well known corporate logos. Very funny. There are literally hundreds of them, most are really well done. A total send up of the design grammar that has come to say “hip, cutting edge web company.”
Though I'm not sure Google will use this one for external PR, it's pretty funny, and includes a tour of many Google features (Calendar, Base, Maps, Alerts etc) in the pursuit of one goal: This article is about using the many Google sites and applications to get yourself a…
This article is about using the many Google sites and applications to get yourself a girl and get yourself laid. In it we’re going to use a guy called Johnny McCool. Johnny is a 22 year old Internet nerd. He works as a programmer with some megacorp, went straight from the computer labs in college to the cubicle farm. He needs to get out more and he needs a girlfriend.
(Thanks to Cory J.)
This NY Post item caught my eye – YouTube was the toast of Herb Allen's Sun Valley conference, and therefore is now worth $1 billion. I don't buy it. I don't think the founders are smoking this shit, I think the media is – at least I hope that's…
Now, folks who own copyrights are waking up to the power of letting their copyrighted content flourish on YouTube, but that particular worm has not turned – content companies are very, very wary of letting this genie out of the bottle.
So who might buy YouTube? A major entertainment company, like the ones mentioned in the Post piece? No way. That’s buying a lawsuit or ten – if Time Warner bought YouTube, how long do you think it’d be before competitors sued to get their copyrighted stuff off TW’s new service? And once that stuff is cleared off (YouTube does make a point of taking down copyrighted material when asked, but policing that massive service is not exactly a hand-rolled affair), what is YouTube worth then?
Read MoreA colleague from NY who prefers to be anonymous sends me this email: Sitting stuck in traffic on way to Mumbai airport. Various peddlers offering flowers, newspapers, etc knock on the car window. And here's one with pirated books. My, the world certainly is flat I think looking at…
Sitting stuck in traffic on way to Mumbai airport. Various peddlers offering flowers, newspapers, etc knock on the car window. And here’s one with pirated books. My, the world certainly is flat I think looking at friedman’s samizdat cover. And then I look down the pile — and there is your book. It won’t put food on your table, but you should be happy to know that the guys who rely on one or two sales a day and can only carry a few books have put you on their bestseller list.
First, amazing that he can send me that note while in traffic in one of the most perilous places on earth (at least, last week it was). Second, how cool is it that The Search is a street bestseller in Mumbai?! Do I care about the piracy? No. No, no no. I care that someone in Mumbai cared enough to rip it off, and that someone there might be reading my stuff. That is just cool. Commercial markets always follow the free, or, well, the pirates in this case. Always.
I don't say this much, but …. watch this space. GData has all the right geeks fibrillating…it's Hailstorm but….opener. (Nice touch, wanting to call it "Shitstorm….")….
Oh this is good….
A series of tubes, is what Senator Ted Stevens called the Internet. He has no idea what he's talking about, but he's against net neutrality, that's for sure, and he is, in fact, a major voice in the debate. Scary? Yeah. All you need to know, really, can be…
A series of tubes, is what Senator Ted Stevens called the Internet. He has no idea what he’s talking about, but he’s against net neutrality, that’s for sure, and he is, in fact, a major voice in the debate. Scary? Yeah. All you need to know, really, can be found here. Really. Listen. It’s so….good. (Thanks, Bill Gibson).
Nat Torkington of O'Reilly is touring the Valley and talking to interesting companies, and writing up his thoughts. They are very good. So far he's done Meebo and Ning….
Yesterday Hitwise blogged a striking discovery: MySpace is bigger than anyone online. Well, sort of anyway – the fine print read: …www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. Today, Yahoo begged to differ, issuing its own release. From the…
…www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users.
Today, Yahoo begged to differ, issuing its own release. From the Mail & Guardian online coverage:
Yahoo! rejected the claim as “misleading” because it ranked the search engine’s domains such as search, news, and e-mail separately instead of adding them together.
