Contributing to Search Engine Watch and CMSWire!
I have some exciting news. I’m now an official contributor to both CMSWire and Search Engine Watch! I’ve been writing for both of these sites for a few weeks now but I’m finally ready to officially announce it. If you’re not familiar with these two publications here’s what they are about along with what I’m going to [...]
Picnik gets acquired by Google
In great news for Seattle Startups, Picnik gets picked up by Google in some interesting M&A activity, because everyone is going to be thinking of Flickr and SmugMug being right in the sights of Google. Online photo editing and storage just hit an air pocket. Picnik was a clear winner in the Seattle 2.0 awards [...]
Massive Bittorrent Site Closures in China
The Chinese government has been busily shutting down Bittorrent sharing sites over the last 10 days causing a rush to download across China according to Sina. The rush to download has degraded Bittorrent services with the remaining servers that are still up and running. As the largest BT download website in China with 5 million [...]
Scoble is Wrong When He Says He is Wrong:-) Full Feeds Still Rock
Wow, I’m sensing another TechMeme Storm rising (and a certain analyst would call it a circle j***, but that’s another matter). Robert Scoble says he was wrong when he said In 2006 he wouldn’t use any news aggregator or feeds that aren’t full text. I think the Scobleizer is wrong now that he says he [...]
Facebook Hacked for Real This Time
Control your info has taken administrative rights to hundreds of groups on Facebook this morning – which is going to prompt a stampede of fear across the Facebook landscape. Looking at the security of social networking – this is going to be a bad day for many groups on Facebook. The group Control your Info [...]
FriendFeed Bounces Off Lows, Comes Back Stronger than Ever
Earlier about a month ago I wrote about what happens when a company got bought out by Facebook, namely FriendFeed. People invest a lot of time in social networks and when a social network gets bought out that sets up a level of uncertainty that the company will still be around later on. FriendFeed is [...]
Newspapers Do Not Need a Tax Bailout
Over on “the hill” a blog news site comes news that there is a newspaper tax bailout bill being seriously proposed in Washington. Newspapers do not need a bailout bill; they need to restructure to meet the needs of the new way of doing things. Much like buggy whips, assembly before the assembly line, the [...]
Google FastFlip = FastFlop
When I look at these hieroglyphs on the the right, I see a bunch of pics carved into stone – a piece of art at most to my eyes. But they used to carry meaning, they were the form of written communication in ancient Egypt. Paper has certainly been more practical than stone, and afforded [...]
Gist Opens to Public Beta Today
Gist is one of the most valuable tools that I use to manage my day to day information, along with a few other systems, Gist provides the backbone support for many of the things I do. Gist helps me keep track of what is important and what is not important and can be deferred to [...]
New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good
Isn’t it funny how a move by traditional media can divide the blogosphere? Today’s move is by none other than The New York Times: they opened up their front page to third party content. If you enable Times Extra, you get up to eight related stories beneath each NYT main story. These stories are picked [...]
