Archive for October, 2007

Techmeme Leaderboard pokes Technorati in the face

Techmeme Leaderboard pokes Technorati in the face
Techmeme (previously known as Tech Memeorandum) by Gabe Rivera has been one of my favorite sites out there for a very long time - and my browser’s homepage. Although I may be a little biased because Gabe is a personal friend, I believe Techmeme is the de facto way […]

SDForum Search SIG: Search Analytics - September 12th 6:30pm @ AOL - Featuring FeedBurner, Google, Hitwise & MyBlogLog

SDForum Search SIG: Search Analytics - September 12th 6:30pm @ AOL - Featuring FeedBurner, Google, Hitwise & MyBlogLog

275 Flickr Mashups
In the past few weeks we’ve seen an influx of new mashups built on the Flickr API, bringing the total number of Flickr-based mashups listed on PW to 275 (click here to see all 275). And […]

Coventi Pages : Writeboards on Steroids

Coventi Pages : Writeboards on Steroids
Looking for a writeboard on steroids? Coventi is that candidate. Coventi is a writing application for the web that offers a wide variety of the features people have come to know and love. Coventi’s main focus is on group collaboration for writing documents, and it executes this quite well. To […]

The Long Tail: A Motive Force for Web 2.0, Makes Its Official Debut

The Long Tail: A Motive Force for Web 2.0, Makes Its Official Debut
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, has been discussing a concept he calls The Long Tail for quite some time now.  Many of you have no doubt been reading his excellent blog on the subject, and now finally his long-awaited book about this […]

links for 2007-10-21

links for 2007-10-21
Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web “Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large….
Silicon Valley Turns Out to Honor Top Technologists
Silicon Valley is not known for paying […]

Blog Action Day

Blog Action Day

(Explicit) Keen on? an airport conversation
The Comedy stylings of Andrew Keen and Steve Gillmor, still bantar on who is more in love with Hillary Clinton. I think Andrew Keen wins hands down!
Facebook, 1000 Billion? Are these guys serious?
Tags: Andrew Keen, Steve Gillmor
Designing the perfect Tree
Glen Lipka has been thinking about Trees. He looked […]

FOO Camp 06: Plenty of Smart People, Self-Organization, and Web 2.0 Goodness

FOO Camp 06: Plenty of Smart People, Self-Organization, and Web 2.0 Goodness
I’m finally back home in Washington, DC and fully recovered from the three whirlwind days that made up O’Reilly’s epic FOO Camp 06 over the past weekend.  The event was nothing if not spectacular and included real camping, a genuine Google Earth fly-over, lots […]

The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine
A site that tracks music blog discussions from MP3 blogs. The goal? To make music discovery fun and promote artists.
Keyword Discovery and Competitive Intelligence in Search
Becky Ryan, director of business development with Trellian, discusses strategies for boosting Web traffic using keyword discovery and competitive intelligence. She explains why it is crucial for […]

Looking back at three years of Web 2.0 investing

Looking back at three years of Web 2.0 investing

Enterprise Mashup Challenges
In another one of his thorough and insightful looks at the mashup space, Dion Hinchcliffe outlines The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups. Here are some of the key points:
No commonly accepted assembly model: Lots of tools appearing but lots of differences in the approach […]

No I never left the building, I was just busy working in the basement

No I never left the building, I was just busy working in the basement

“too many hacker entrepreneurs sell themselves short by aiming to only sell themselves to Google”

Warning: ads to get more annoying
The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it’s coming to a […]