Australia’s government is backing an ambitious plan to build a new fiber-to-the-node network that will reach 98 percent of Australians and offer a minimum 12Mbps to all. But just how open will it be? Google has some thoughts.
The US now sticks out for ditching its line-sharing rules and for having no national broadband push or universal service regime for broadband. States like California, Kentucky, and North Carolina are hashing out their own solutions, and…
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Most bloggers would love their content to hit the front page of Digg. Unfortunately, most of those bloggers are never able to experience the huge spike of traffic and the feelings of accomplishment this brings.
The IN route I would suggest is to write an advice post that applies to a very large cross-section of Digg users. One of the reasons I suspect Zen Habits has hit the front page of Digg over 80 times is because of its universal topics…
Chris Brogan on social media sites he uses to monitor what folks are saying about him/his sites/products.
When I first read this, I thought that exploring listening as a first step in an SN strategy was sort of putting the cart before the horse, by making the assumption that your company or organization is already “out there,”…
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Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service, decided to band together to show Twitter some tough love by boycotting the service for a day.
Last December, we wrote about how two brothers used YouTube to promote various charities. The brothers started a project called "Nerdfighters Power Project for Awesome," which entailed a series of videos, each featuring a certain…
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There are thousands of new services that pop up every day. Too many services imitate, and only a handful innovate. Competition on the web is stiff and users are demanding more from the services they join. Here's a quick look at what Facebook, Twitter, and Friendfeed did right.
Search The integrated search function on the Twitter site isn't all that useful. It took over a year for the feature to be implemented and like Facebook, Twitter apps do the job better. While search is basic on Twitter, search engines like…
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Websense predictions about this strategy, made originally at the time of the Anti-CAPTCHA operations, have proven to be accurate. The spammers are now using these accounts for additional, random attacks that include sophisticated new methods.
Spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and Mass-Mailing Strategy
A little long but worth the read.
With profits in the DVD rental sector harder to come by over the last couple of years, Movie Gallery boldly went ahead and purchased Hollywood Entertainment in 2005 for $1.2 billion, which included the assumption of $350 million in debt. The…
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As perhaps one of the company’s largest moves toward distinguishing itself from Microsoft’s culture and acquisition intentions, Yahoo today outlined a long-expected plan to turn its empire of web services into a massive social network.
Another key aspect to Yahoo's new social networking strategy will be user-generated applications. Like Facebook's application platform, Yahoo plans to leverage Google's OpenSocial and even its own forthcoming Yahoo…
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Even though Microsoft continues to stomp their feet like little girls, Yahoo continue with their plans…
I’m still wary of a major web service like search, mail, chat or news becoming an “all eyes on me” social network. These are areas where I like privacy, and I have the ability to “share” or promote…
Amazing cover story on Ning!
Ning's social networks, where users post comments, questions, photos, and videos, run the gamut from porn to Pez dispensers, motorcycles to motherhood, TV shows to customized cars to Thai kickboxing. Show My Pony is for horse enthusiasts, GAX…
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This is a great look at what marketing packages should be (and should NOT be). This writeup joins stuff that Seth Godin, Tadeusz Szewczyk, and others are discussing about the new *not* marketing.
Recommendation - unless you have the right contacts, funding, and a surefire concept (hint: know the demand in advance) you do not waste your valuable resources (and that includes your own time). Of course, temptation is hard…
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interesting analysis of the challenge facing many of today's newer startups; building a self-sustaining business on a FREE product
The economic problem with advertising businesses is that advertising businesses do not work without really significant scale. In the past, a good product or service could address a niche and succeed without being a home run. Today, a home run is…
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Don't pay for an image if you need something for a website!
Another tip: when you are trying to brainstorm, Flickr is a great place to find connections between ideas that hadn't occurred to you. Even if you don't use the picture, the ideas are priceless. Do a search on lobster or clouds or crowds…
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Sooner or later, the conversation shifts from, “will people use this” to “hey, we’ve gotta make some money here.” After all, servers and staff aren’t free. Monetizing Twitter is especially interesting because of its size and structure.
As keywords in our Tweats become links for others, the question of ownership and content come into play. Do tweats count as content and if so, how can we be compensated? An opt-in rev share program could mitigate this issue. If your tweats…
