Alexa Bashing
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Jason Calcanis, of weblogs/netscape.com fame, is proposing an experiment to see if he, along with readers who fall for the trick, can game the Alexa system of ranking websites.
Seems like a waste of time to me. Alexa definitely has […]
Most Viewed Videos
Most Viewed Videos is a fast way to catch the most popular new videos from YouTube and Google
Org Chart Wiki
Cogmap has launched a wiki for creating org charts. This is a very good idea. Accurate org charts are great for benchmarking, but hard to find. The site needs something to make it takeoff. Maybe they should do something like Jigsaw and put a business model in place.
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Standardize Sitemaps
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft have agreed to standardize sitemaps using Sitemap 0.9
It looks like it’s the format that Goolge has been using all along.
And you can ping the search engines as well with
<searchengine_URL>/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url
B2C Beats B2B
Feed the masses and eat with kings, feed the kings and eat with the masses
Quote from a fellow venture investor at a recent shareholder meeting I went to discussing why YouTube etal were beating up one of our B2B video workflow investments
Knowing when to sell
Evan Williams has a post titled Knowing when to hold ‘emwhich really misses the point of knowing when to sell.
For every, Flikr there are many more purchases that really went nowhere, but the sellers got out with some decent cash in their pocket.
One thing I learned in the bursting of the last bubble is to […]
OReilly on what VCs learned from Odeo and YouTube
Tim O’Reilly has a post on the O’Reilly Radar blog about what VCs learned from Odeo and YouTube.
Tim gets a lot of it right, but misses the point that the vast majority of VC firms are followers not leaders. The leaders are the ones who are figuring out the future and making bets where others […]
Thinking about VC Funding
A New York Times article focusing on startups getting by by bootstraping is encouraging. More start-ups should focus on how to get creative about getting the business going to figure out if they even have a business.
The ValleyWag blog attempts to outline some of the factors involved and alternatives to raising money from VC sources, […]
There should be a law against videos like this
UPDATE: The original of this was pulled from Vimeo and YouTube.
Here a copy of it at adweek
And the winner is …… not Faith Hill
Faith Hill reacts to the announcement that Carrie Underwood wins Female Vocalist of The Year.
She later said it was a joke - yeh right.
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