Technorati has been an icon of the blogosphere since Dave Sifry began the company to track blogs and provide bloggers with statistics and search.  It was the first thing people downloaded to their blogs, and the first part of setting up a blog.  They seem to have lost that celebrity status.  There are so […]

You have all had a chance to throw a zombie sheep at someone or poked, pushed,  prodded, slapped and rode hard and put away wet your friends and followers on Facebook, and I myself of course have had enough of the fun.  It’s being termed “application spam” or what Mike Arrington is calling “friend spamming.”
Facebook […]

I have been thinking about the comment left on my post about Blog Talk Radio and their attempt at monetizing their application.  Then I read today over at HipMojo the article about why companies that are basing themselves on ad revenue will fail.  It helped me formulate my own opinion about how companies in the […]

There are many people that believe that social media is some sort of new religion.  In fact, many believe that adopting social media will somehow take them to the promise land, and make them successful beyond their wildest dreams.  This I’m afraid to say is not actually the case.
Joshua Porter has posted entitled “The Problem […]

I am a really big fan of Blog Talk Radio and have met Alan Levy, John Havens, Lisa Padilla, their newest addition, Kris Smith, and have spoken to others in their organization.  They are a bunch of great people.  They have a super application that is easy to use, is free for its users, […]

Just after their presentation at DEMO 08, I had a chance to sit down and have lunch with Fred Ngo of Standout Jobs. Ben Yoskovitz, a friend and someone that has helped me get my business on track here, is also one of the co-founder’s and is CEO of the company.  I was also […]

I have been waiting for the newest release of Firefox as I understand it will help cure my memory woes with the boat anchor*.  I was glad to read on Techeme as reported by CNet News that Firefox has now come out with its latest version in beta.  I ran right over and downloaded […]

Silicon Alley Insider is discussing the fact that Fox News Corp. is trying to make a back door deal with Yahoo. In the words of my friend Dave Taylor, “so what?”  Apparently, Yahoo will do anything not to fall into the hands of Microsoft or do they actually realize this is inevitable and they are […]

A friend recently sent me an invite to join a new social network.  These days it is difficult not to receive an invite to join this network or be a user of this or that new application.  Everyone has a some “social” sprinkled in their recipe for success.  What stood out in my mind about […]

Just reading that Google is rumored to buy Plaxo for $200M and I keep thinking to myself, why is Google doing what Microsoft should be doing instead of purchasing Yahoo?  I guess that is why I’m not running a company that can write a check for $44.6B, but it seems to me that Google is […]