Who Should Like Like.com?

Riya made a big, OK huge,splash today with the launch of Like.com. I'm not going to write about what Riya built or the future plans. I am going to speculate about Riya's exit strategy. No one is talking about the value of Like who should buy it. I'll start at...

Blog Exposes Mel Gibson Cover Up

Today seems to be my Shmuly Day so I am going to end with a Shmulyish story. It has intrigue. It has a scandal. It has a raving anti-Semite. I'll even try to throw in some Shmuly-quality humor and then Digg it. So everyone, Digg it! Last Friday at lunch...

Paying for Content: Netscape vs. Stylehive

I seem to be the only person who thought Jason Calcanasis' recent announcement was brilliant. In case you missed it, Jason announced that Netscape would pay the top 12 social bookmarkers to pick articles at Netscape instead of the sites (e.g. Digg) where they do this for no monetary compensation....

Did YouTube Pass MySpace?

There is a buzz today that YouTube passed MySpace. It seems to have started with an article in the Guardian (note that the site requires registration with a lot of oddly required questions and the article says little), picked up by the Huffington Post and now is circulating the blogosphere....

Calacanis Covets Competitors' Contributors

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs Inc. and now GM of AOL's new Netscape put out an offer this evening to the top contributors to Digg, Reddit, Flickr, Newsvine et all to switch and contribute to Netscape. This rocks! I'm not going to describe or quote. Jason writes well so read...

blogs, tags & wikis: marketing the hell out of a word

I love the creative use of words. Part of me bristles at misuse while another part has learned to appreciate great marketing. Plus, a language must evolve. Blog is a term that few have defined well. The best marketing use of the word I have seen is by PepperJam. I...

Stolen Sidekick

This has nothing to do with much and is probably a "Friday post" but this is happening today. I was looking around for the release date of the Sidekick III (yes, I am a Sidekick junky and need the promised speed and memory of the SK3) and found a hilarious...

Jeff Molander Sold Out

For those of you who wanted to buy JeffMolander.com and were bidding on the eBay auction for it, the item sold on Saturday, April 1st for $265!!! Payment has been received from gtimissy, the winner. Now the only question is what to do with the money. I have received suggestions...

I Own Jeff Molander... and He is For Sale!

You read that right... I own Jeff Molander. More correctly, I own JeffMolander.com. I really don't want to but I do. (More on this in a bit.) It all started when I received the following e-mail from Jeff: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jeff+molander People are bidding on my "brand!" Jeff Molander's Brand I wondered...

New Holiday: Vice Presidents Day

Happy Presidents Day to one and all. In honor of this grand holiday, today I launch a new website: VicePresident.US. This is not an affiliate site. This is a blog dedicated to reporting all event (current and past) that people need to know about this illustrious office. Vice Presidents Day...

TELEGRAM STOP

The silence you hear is no telegrams being delivered STOP None STOP If you never had the privilege of receiving a telegram, you are too late STOP Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and...

Yahoo Instant Messenger Virus

It looks like Yahoo Instant Messenger was hit with a virus. A few friends sent me a link via YIM. It was for http://www.geocities.com/my_new_look_2006/. Of course, they didn't really send it. We know that means it's a virus but we don't know what type of virus. Was it a virus...

Why I Hate Synthasite

During the datafeed panel at Affiliate Summit, Vinny Lingham mentioned that I hate Synthasite, IncuBeta's new datafeed site builder (er, Web Services site builder?) I do, I hate it along with the networks' Web Services offerings. Let's take a step back before you assume that I am insulting Vinny. I...

A Match Made at Revenews?

It's official! Experian has acquired PriceGrabber. The price tag was $485 million. It makes sense. Experian is about lead generation. PriceGrabber is really a lead gen engine for merchants with a shopping comparion UI. Here was my prediction last June: PriceGrabber: Have you been following Experian's acquisition binge? PriceGrabber fits...

Comcast Commerce

With today's news (below) I am considering adding Comcast Interactive Media to my list of shopping comparison engine suitors. Comcast currently runs a PriceGrabber white label for its shopping channel on Comcast.net. While Comcast is new in this space and may not have the traffic required to run an independent...

The West Wing Blogs Suck

I can't help it. I just have to say that the blogs for The West Wing suck. I'm only partly responsible for this. I had a great idea and through fewer than six degrees of separation I got the idea to the producers. Here's how it all started (cue the...

Google Analytics: Scratching Ur Chin?

Vinny had an interesting post at his own blog (yes, he should be posting at Revenews instead) and I thought it raised some interesting points. When Brad Waller posted the news of Google's purchase of Urchin, he predicted that the service would be free at some point. Damn straight it...

Google Blog Search

Google launched Google Blog Search today. I'm left asking one question: Why? If I am searching for relevant information on a topic, does it matter if it is on a blog or elsewhere? I can understand news search if the sources are vetted for journalistic integrity before they are added...

What is a blog?

Words matter. I don't know about you but I take pride in my native tongue. (Yes, it is English.) I may slack off a little sometimes but nothing like I read at times. It doesn't matter if it is a printed document, a Web page, an e-mail, chat (IM) or...

News Corp is Intermixing It up

News Corp announced that it is purchasing Intermix, formerly eUniverse, for $580 million. You may recall reading about Intermix's little run in with Eliot Spitzer over spyware (they settled for $7.5 million and an end to the spyware business) and wonder why Rupert Murdoch would want to buy the company....

TypAds / TypepAds / TypePad Ads / Ads by TypePaaaaaaaaaaaaad

We have a new entrant to the contextual search game. Well, it's not really a new adgregator (that would be an ad aggregrator like AdSense or Overture) but a new reseller. I've seen Ads by Kanoooooooooooooooooodle on a few sites and never thought much of them. I really haven't thought...

Ad$ense: Threat or Savior for Publishers

The second half of Stephen Messer's lunch talk at Affiliate Summit was a discussion on the effects of AdSense on affiliates. This is a hot topic and I am glad to see that it is getting focus at the highest levels of affiliate networks. Lunch wasn't the place to highlight...

Huffington Post

Somebody here needs to mention this. I'm in California, Ariana's adopted home so I guess I'll take it. There are many ways to tell when something has hit the mainstream (or on the decline) and become trendy. Just watch Ariana Huffington. Remember when Sports Utes were all the rage? Ariana...

P2P: MGM v. Grokster

If you are interested at all in P2P and digital media rights, you need to read this piece by Travis Kalanick in the Financial Times. Travis was one of the founders of Scour and is the founder and CEO of RedSwoosh, a software company that is focused on greatly enhancing...

Ads by Yahooooooooo

According to Andy Baio, it looks like Yahoo finally is getting ready to release its version of AdSense called the Yahoo Publishing Network (YPN). I hope that this is better than DERP, Yahoo's syndicated related search tool. You can see YPN at work across The Ink-Stained Wretch. The home page...

Eternal Logins at Online Stores

Bruce Schneier posted an interesting piece on logins that never expire with online stores. I've heard people talk about how merchants try to get the lifetime value of the customer by first getting the customer to register and then sending an never-ending batch of e-mails to get the customer to...