Posted in Marketing, Web Stuff on April 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Techcrunch just reported that ebay has purchased StumbleUpon for 40-45 million. Why? It seems the consensus is a large ad buy. If thats this case this is horrible, both from an advertiser on Stumble and a user.eBay hasn’t really shown any innovation nor do they improve any of the properties they acquire. Skype, Paypal and [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Stuff on April 17th, 2007 No Comments »
There are a lot of tools to build keywords, Digital Point, Word Tracker, Overture Keyword Tool, etc. One that doesn’t get much exposure but is very good at keyword development is GoodKeywords.
This free downloadable software pulls data from Overture and allows you to do many things with that data that Overture does not provide themselves. [...]
Posted in Music, Shopping, Web Stuff on April 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
Allofmp3 is down again. Is this the final chapter for this company or just another long outage?
They have been under enormous scrutiny and pressure from the WTO, RIAA, and the US government to shut down. They have been on life support for months as it has been almost impossible to add funds to accounts as [...]
Posted in Web Stuff on April 2nd, 2007 23 Comments »
I just got an email from Joost, see below. For all you those wanting tokens just leave a comment and they are yours.
It’s showtime! The latest version of Joost is now available for download
- and it’s our biggest release yet.
To celebrate this we have given you 5 invitations - so you can invite
your friends to [...]
Posted in Marketing, Rants, Web Stuff on March 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Apparently Yahoo is conceeding the fact that Hotjobs is NOT the only place to look for jobs. In an ironic twist they are placing ads on Craigslist for job openings within Hotjobs.
This wouldn’t typically be news but I thought that it was funny that the self touting Leader in job search was using a competitor [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Stuff on March 5th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the first sites to talk about blogging in the business world has been put up for sale on sitepoint. The asking price for Business Logs is a mere 55k, or you can start bidding at 25k. The site currently pulls in 750 per month in TLA and has much room for improvement on [...]
Posted in Projects, Web Stuff on March 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
As more and more software goes online many companies that flourished in the desktop enviroment will need to adjust. One such application is ManagerAssistant. The software is only available in desktop form and specializes in employee performance and appraisal reviews (it actually does a lot more than that).
I am curious what kind of technology a [...]
Posted in Web Stuff on February 28th, 2007 13 Comments »
I just recieved an email from Joost letting me know that I have 2 official beta invites to send via email. I would suspect that this was done on a wide scale as I dont use the system very much and dont provide them any feedback. If your one of the many people that have [...]
Posted in Web Stuff on February 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I just ran across this on Techcrunch and it seems pretty cool. The site is currently down for maintenance so I cant really give any reviews. Apparently you can create your own social network and applications with a few clicks and anyone can do it. With sites like this, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla and other open [...]
Posted in Web Stuff on February 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
Well this has happened very fast. Apparently both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray encryption have been bypassed as of yesterday afternoon. The moment Blu-Ray was circumvented was here, the moment HD-DVD was here (a few hours earlier).
After reading through the forum I can basically describe the process, I will not pretend I know anything about this stuff. [...]