A bit of a personal angle on a business-relevant post. This last week in Seattle marked the worst windstorm since the 1960's. The Pacific Northwest is filled with powerless homes and apartments, as well as downed trees, road closures, food & gas shortages and the other, usual accoutrements of a natural disaster. As the ...
Recently, I've begun to see massive problems in the search and online community's definitions of linkbait. It boils down to two completely unique meanings for the term: Linkbait Definition #1 - "Link-Worthy, Linkerati-Targeted Content"This is the way I typically use the term linkbait. It refers to a piece of content one creates (for one's own site or ano...
These days it seems like everyone's written an article or blog entry on all things digg, e.g. why you shouldn't game digg, digg etiquette, whether digg is rigged. Jeff and I thought we'd join the bandwagon and off...
Either someone at the Web Advertising Blog is gaming the social media sites, or the bar on quality has dropped to fantastically low levels. Making its debut on Digg and del.icio.us/popular today was this absolute stinker - ...
If you've ever signed up for an account on a Web 2.0 site, you've seen it: The ugly little image that appears after you've plugged in your desired user name, password, and email address. They're usually either ridiculously colourful, lying on a gridded background, or both. Annoying as they may be, these CAPTCHAs are included in the account creation process for the sole purpose of ...
Although I'm up to my ears in projects and deadlines, I felt compelled to blog about an article at Slate Magazine titled "$1 Billion for Facebook? LOL!" The article questions whether the current social marketing mania shares eerie similarities to the late dotcom bubble:The Dow's at a record high, youthful entrepreneurs ...
As posted on way too many blogs to count, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has decided to fork Wikipedia in to a new project called Citizendium. I know, I had no idea what it was either. Luckily, their "website&qu...
The Wall Street Journal online hosted a debate between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Dale Hoiberg, the editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica. I've included a brief excerpt (in which Jimmy Wales lays the smackdown on Dale Hoiberg) below:...
Today, we jumped off our chairs when we realized what had just happened. One of the major platforms that we are developing, Gigasize, was dugg today... and I can assure you it was totally unplanned. We were in alpha phase, testing out functionalities, improving usability, etc., and then BOOM... thousands and thousands of visitors, peaking ...
Danny's hoping that I'll post something on social media optimization marketing and it's hard to let a soon-to-be-unemployed man down (too soon?). Thus, I give you my version of an introduction to the social media space - what's important, what's worth your time and how to go about working the SMO...
I've been a fan of StumbleUpon for almost 6 months, and here's why: The above image shows the traffic stats from the StumbleUpon toolbar to SEOmoz since the beginning of the year. Wh...
Oilman pointed to this first, so he deserves the link credit. Bravo, Todd - your taste in entertainment makes me an even bigger fan than before. Like Todd, I watched this segment last night and couldn't help but think how plugged in Colbert's staff must be to the Web 2.0 world. Unlike so many parodies of Internet t...
For nearly 2 years now, online and offline media has been obsessed with the success of MySpace, the social networking website that caters primarily to teenage and young adult demographics. Explanations for the phenomenal growth in traffic, page views per session, membership explosion and brandshare have been attributed to everything from the ...
Scanning the del.icio.us/popular list this morning, I came across Dead2.0, who wrote 11 Suggestions for Not Being a Dot-Bomb 2.0. The list had some great suggestions: Have a revenue model, right now. Not something you&...