Once upon a Myspace time, I tried searching for a few band profiles inside the Myspace network. I didn’t get the exact spelling and spacing right, and ended up on a total search maze. What a disaster! From there on out, I would actually leave Myspace, go back to Google and search there for a […]
How Twitter could overtake Google
Guest column by J.R. Johnson CEO, Lunch.com Last week I did a simple Google search. I was looking for an old article about “bootstrapping” written by a woman named “Mitra,” so I did a search for “Mitra bootstrapping.” The number one result was from Twitter. It was a page containing a single tweet by Ms. […]
Twitter revenue from in-email advertising
This is complete speculation so bear with me. Very recently, Twitter changed its email alert messages from pithy text-only notices of new followers or direct messages to branded, graphical emails. Well, Twitter has always been in a conundrum: If they monetize the sparse web interface, they’ll alienate their very touchy early adopters and send people […]
Practically painless FeedBurner Google transition
Several of my clients have expressed concern over having to transfer their RSS feeds from the traditional FeedBurner platform to the new Google Feedburner platform. Google is now requiring that Feedburner users make this transition, so I do recommend doing this right away. I made the transition myself to make sure there were no surprises […]
At Personal Democracy Forum
I’m here in Manhattan attending the Personal Democracy Forum for the first time, courtesy of Micah Sifry. Tomorrow I’m hoping to organize a session about the upcoming Remix Politics 2008 channel at the PDF unconference. Ari Melber is live-blogging the conference. Liza Sabater (blogdiva) and Alex Williams (podcasthotel) are also blogging it via Twitter. Somewhat […]