Archives for the 'web' Category
Lunchtime Musings: on the writers’ strike
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I love seeing the striking writers producing direct-to-YouTube videos in support of their cause. The video below was posted yesterday, and as of 1:31 pm EST it’s been viewed 38,447 times. An awful lot of people are getting an engaging, amusing pitch for the writers’ position. Seems like the Big Content executives would benefit from [...]
NBC Direct Extremely Viewer-Friendly In Bizarre Alternate Reality
Monday, November 12th, 2007
NBC releases the beta of its ad supported TV download service (code named screw you, iTunes, I understand), and paidContent is unimpressed. To summarize, if one were a recently converted DVR-less Heroes addict who finds it inconvenient to watch the show when it airs, one’s (entirely hypothetical) options would be: 1. Go with the NBC [...]
Prince, sans the Revolution
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Techcrunch follows up on Prince’s rather eccentric recent moves to defend intellectual property that may or may not be his. [Yes, I know how surprising it is to see the words "Prince" and "eccentric" in the same sentence, just remember that you heard it here first.] Here’s the thing: it seems wildly inaccurate to hold [...]
Let’s talk brand, shall we?
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Over on CNET, Elinor Mills appears to have been wildly unimpressed with the conversational marketing summit. While there’s some interesting stuff to chew on in what she has to say, I’m surprised and a little taken aback by how aggressively Mills rejects the idea that brands are conversations: And what’s this with the slogan of [...]
Widgets and page views and movies, oh my!
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Being a few items that appeared in my feed reader yesterday afternoon. The analytics wave continues to build. Monday, 5:10PM VentureBeat Quantcast becomes latest widget traffic tracker Says Matt Marshall: “More and more publishers and retailers rely on so-called ‘widgets,’ little boxes placed on other web sites, to deliver their news, entertainment and product advertisements. [...]
So this is where all my time has been going…
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
I had reason today to start wondering what online tools and services I’ve played with over the last few years. The most recent ones and those that I use regularly (go backpack!) come easily to mind, but I’ve kicked the tires on a lot of other stuff that has blurred into a single gently rounded, [...]
Widget Metrics and Linguistic Precision
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Comscore today announced the launch of “comScore Widget Metrix,” a new service to track the usage of widgets across the Web. The day before this announcement, VentureBeat posted the news that according to comScore’s numbers the slideshow company Slide is the world’s top widget provider, with the title “Slide pounds chest: Widget used by 14 [...]
Stupid Ideas have a Halo
Friday, May 18th, 2007
As the operator of 250 Labs, I read Techdirt’s post entitled Internet Economics: Making Stupid Ideas Cheaper To Bring To Market and immediately thought “hey—how did Techdirt get access to my super-secret business plan?” Alas, the Techdirt post is actually focused on Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors venture as an example of how the ever-decreasing costs of [...]
Twitter has a Halo
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
As a borderline obsessive registrant of odd domains, I am a veritable storehouse of borderline interesting domain registration trivia. The binary representations of ASCII alpha characters? Already registered in their .com forms, for the most part — particularly those with appealing patterns (i.e. “U” as 01010101.com, or the beautifully symetrical 01011010.com for “Z”). Clever english [...]
Lunchtime Musings: on the Maturity of the Internet
Monday, April 30th, 2007
On Saturday, April 28th, 2007, Fred Wilson (venture capitalist, blogger, and noted blog bling enthusiast) posted about adding the lijit search widget to his popular blog. On Sunday, April 29th, 2007, Fred Wilson posted about the fact that “widgets suck” was the most popular search displayed in his lijit search widget tag cloud, suggesting that [...]
