Slate has an interesting article about how (and if) Twitter will ever devise a strategy for making money. I’ve been asking myself this question for a long time, as it seems unlikely that any company will last without a way to pay for things like, oh, servers.
Twitter has been pretty stable lately, and the Fail […]
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How will Twitter make money? They’ll figure it out… eventually
Published by October 9th, 2008 in Social Media, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsGoogle to release own browser, “Chrome”
Published by September 1st, 2008 in Google, Technology and Web/Internet. 3 CommentsGoogle’s throwing a wrench into the IE vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera browser dynamic with it’s own offering, Google Chrome. They explain their reasoning behind the project in a very slick comic drawn by “Understanding Comics” creator Scott McCloud, in which they state they’re looking to create a browser for the way people use […]
If (traditional) media companies saw the writing on the wall…
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Blogs, Mass Media, New Media, Social Media, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsImagine if, 25 years ago, a time traveler from the present day appeared to newspaper, television and radio executives to outline the media landscape in 2008. He’d tell them about how the Internet has dramatically increased the number of media outlets and how it’s enabled everyone to opine or present news via text, audio or […]
Did you delete your MySpace profile today?
Published by January 30th, 2008 in Social Networking, Sports PR, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsI’m routinely met with a barrage of e-mails from fake MySpace profiles requesting I add them as friends. These profiles are usually fronts for “camgirl” operations that are - ahem - “less than work safe” - and yet they continue to exist on MySpace. Things that also exist on MySpace: ugly layouts, pages that crash […]
Remembering influential Web videos of the past…
Published by November 27th, 2007 in Technology, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsThe Webby Awards have posted their list of the top 12 most influential videos of all time. Some of these are classics, including the “All Your Base” and “Star Wars Kid” videos. There is some more serious fare on the list, such as George Allen’s “Macacca” video, in which one word derailed Allen’s political career, […]
On taking a two-week break from the Internet
Published by September 7th, 2007 in General and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsThe past couple of weeks have been an absolute whirlwind. I moved into a new place, got married a week later, took off for Italy on our honeymoon and finally got back late Wednesday. Since I’ve been in a new place with no Internet and then on vacation overseas, I’ve essentially not used the Internet […]
What happens when you blog about work and your boss reads it?
Published by July 26th, 2007 in Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsWork and productivity blog Slacker Manager has brought an interesting dilemma to my attention (via Ask a Manager): An employee is an active blogger, and has recently posted a gripe about her workload on her blog. This employee has shared her blog with her boss in the past, who reads it on a regular basis, […]
Creating a personal home page as a digital hub?
Published by July 10th, 2007 in Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 0 CommentsThese days I’m finding my attention is split up among so many various Web services that blogging is simply losing out. Not that I don’t love writing, of course, but these days when I find an interesting piece of information worth calling out I’m more likely to share it through Google Reader, post it to […]
“The (record) labels killed themselves.”
Published by June 29th, 2007 in Music, Technology and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsRolling Stone is running a two-part series on “The Record Industry’s Decline.” They seem to pin the tipping point on the moment the industry refused to work with Napster in 2000, instead launching their own music download services, none of which worked as well as Napster. Soon after Napster shut down, what had been the […]
Fans protest and bring back “Jericho”
Published by June 6th, 2007 in Marketing Events, Television and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsTo quote Nina Tassler, “wow.” This hardly ever happens, but kudos to these fans, who were able to bring back Jericho, their favorite show, from cancellation:
In a letter to “Jericho” fans that opened simply with “Wow!,” the president of CBS Entertainment, Nina Tassler, praised the “impressive and probably unprecedented display of passion” evident in the […]
