The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting
TW sent me this piece of web marketing gold… The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting. Building blog content to get traffic from Digg, Reddit, delicious, etc.
July 18, 2007 | SEO | No comments
Facebook predicted to overtake MySpace
A friend in the UK sent me this. The number of searches for ‘facebook’ in the UK as just overtaken the number of searches for ‘myspace’. This has a history of being an excellent predictor and it’s showing that myspace is going to get beaten up by Facebook – at least in the UK market.
July 18, 2007 | Tech News | No comments
Markus Frind James Hong video panel/interview
I found this awesome vid on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It’s a panel session with Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com and James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com and a few others. Markus Frind is my personal hero and much of the reason I have an aversion to VC money. This is more than an hour long, so when you’re […]
July 18, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Shackleton's ad
Someone emailed me this morning and in his email sig he has a derivative of what was supposedly an ad by Ernest Shackleton for his 1908 Nimrod Antarctic expedition: I was intrigued, did a little googling and discovered that the ad seems to be a fake and the first published appearance of the “Men wanted […]
July 17, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
Open Coffee at Louisa's
I’m at open coffee this morning at Lousa’s Coffee shop in Seattle – here early to get some reading in. Come down if you’re free this morning. There’s going to be an awesome group of entrepreneurs and innovators here from 8:30 until everyone leaves (usually after 10:30).
July 17, 2007 | Innovation, Startups | No comments
Programming language choices for entrepreneurs
I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails. I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better […]
July 17, 2007 | Code, Startups, Technology | No comments
Say…
“You don’t write because you want to say something: you write because you’ve got something to say.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald. Next time I’ll have something to say.
July 16, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
Saving server costs with Javascript using distributed processing
I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment. Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have […]
July 16, 2007 | Code, Innovation, Startups, Technology | No comments
Almost a latte
Since I relaunched my blog on Saturday I’ve had 432 page views. So if I’d been really smart and put AdSense on the blog… At 0.30 CPC with a 2% Click thru rate I’d have earned a grand total of $2.59. Almost the price of a latte. UPDATE: I installed adsense. My goal: to earn […]
July 16, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
Competitive intelligence tools
In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business. Archive.org One of my favorites! Use […]
July 16, 2007 | SEO, Startups, Technology | No comments