My Yahoo’s Caste System for Publishers

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have long used My Yahoo as my default home page.  I like the ability to quickly scan the news to see what’s going on.  I also use Google Reader to browse news feeds from lots of blog sites.  [...]

Excellent Presentation on Web Analytics

Dan Olsen gave a great presentation at the Web 2.0 conference. The slides from his presentation are now available at Slideshare. Here’s the goodies:

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Six Gaming Techniques to Make Communities More Engaging

I was answering a question at Linked In about motivating users and thought it would be good to keep my notes here as well.

Points Points are a great motivator for users. You can use them any way you like. At the simplest level, points can be mapped to contributions or user actions and [...]

What this means

Obama lost to Clinton tonight in PA. The post election discussion by the candidates is most interesting. I got this email (see below) from the Obama campaign tonight with th subject “What this means”.
This email came from Barack himself, not one of his campaign guys. He positions Clinton with McCain as [...]

Hanging out waiting for next game

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Soccer in San Bernardino Game 1

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Amazon EC2 Persistence On Its Way

I just got this in an an email this morning. It’s a welcome development.
Dear Amazon EC2 Developer,
Many Amazon EC2 customers have been requesting that we let them know ahead of time about features that are currently under development so that they can better plan for how that functionality might integrate with their applications. To [...]

Google App Engine and Amazon’s EC2 Compared

There is some interesting discussion going on about Google’s new App Engine and Amazon’s EC2 service. Both of these services let you run web sites up in the cloud.
This from Brad Feld is a good run down on the two services.
1. The Google App Engine Q&A - an in-depth blogger-created FAQ that provides great [...]

Techcrunch Parties with PopSugar

The TechCrunch/Popsugar event last night was good fun. I liked the way the integrated demos around the room. It gave everybody something to do in addition to chatting and drinking. I’m sure it took a lot of work to put together so thanks to Techcrunch and Popsugar for a great night.
Here’s a [...]

Microsoft Sucks is the Best

Just for kicks I thought I would see what Google, Yahoo and MS search sites would reveal when I typed in their respective names and the work sucks. Google was probably the most even treatment. Yahoo seem to have a lot of results from Yahoo sites.
MS takes the cake. The second answer [...]

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