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November 30, 2005
Guardian Unlimited releases branded newsreader
GuardianUnlimited has released a branded feed reader that's pretty cool, going to show the diversity of different forms that feed readers can take. It doesn't seem to be reporting a number of subscribers just yet to publishers, but I'm sure that will come in time.
Guardian Unlimited | Newspoint | Guardian newspoint
technorati tags: web 2.0, rss, guardian
Posted by Steve at 06:25 AM | Comments (0)
November 29, 2005
and here's the English link to PSP update
PlayStation.com - PSP - PlayStation.com
technorati tags: web 2.0, psp, rss
Posted by Steve at 12:30 PM | Comments (0)
PSP firmware update adds RSS reader
the newest Japanese firmware for the PSP adds an RSS reader. caveat emptor:
“PSP”(プレイステーション・ポータブル）｜“PSP” システムソフトウェア アップデート
technorati tags: rss, web 2.0, psp
Posted by Steve at 11:27 AM | Comments (0)
November 28, 2005
Ev's rules
Ev's a great guy and it comes out in the thoughtfulness put into this post:
evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups
The only thing I would add to #9 is to "Be Agile, but not too agile". Companies that take the same approach as a little league soccer team following the ball around often fail as well as those that stay the same course. The right answer is somewhere in the middle.
technorati tags: "web 2.0"
Posted by Steve at 11:48 AM | Comments (127)
nope, no tourettes, just testing
sorry for the noise and naughty language, i was testing some things. what i can tell you is this:
1. content owner tagging creates a big tag-spam problem. the places that use them don't seem to have any countermeasures in place
2. tag spamming raises ad revenues (new traffic, i guess)
3. there are some interesting user agents that seek out special things
4. technorati users tend to use firefox. everyone else in the world uses IE
5. there are some sick people who execute some sick searches. we all knew that
Posted by Steve at 09:01 AM | Comments (2)
ypn vs adsense revenues
while on the topic of blog advertising i thought i'd mention i have been bouncing around in various places testing YPN ads as well as my traditional Google AdSense ads, and interestingly, YPN is consistently performing better and paying more. in many cases about twice as much. i find this curious, because i personally don't find the YPN advertisers to be as compelling, but perhaps the Overture marketplace provides higher CPCs? more analysis needed, but I can't argue with the $.
technorati tags: blog advertising
Posted by Steve at 05:43 AM | Comments (2)
eMiniMall ad units and artificially lowering the CTR
i actually think the Chitika eMiniMall ad units are pretty cool, but they recently changed their ad unit to prevent what they call "curiousity clicks" and this has caused an interesting publisher backlash - because they have essentially artificially lowered the Click Thru Rate by making sure people are really interested before clicking through. I don't like this move, mostly because of my own personal ad clicking behavior. i "curiously click" a lot, not because of the ad unit, but because i am interested in the content or product. i might not buy it right then, but i do bookmark these things and go back to them later - and every so often, I do execute a transaction either right then or later. now, this does cause a now vs later session tracking problem that needs to be handled for publishers and advertisers to be happy, but isn't that what should be worked out in the long run?
micropublishers are very sensitive to changes in payments, and (rightly) will bounce around from network to network to see what pays them the most money now. it's really hard to make the argument to micro-publishers that taking a haircut now will end up making them more money in the long run. sophisticated publishers who have been selling their own advertising for a while understand this, but bloggers and other micro-publishers do not.
see:
eMiniMalls ad unit redesign sparks controversy - JenSense.com
technorati tags: blog advertising
Posted by Steve at 05:38 AM | Comments (274)
November 27, 2005
d'arr
d'arr
Posted by Steve at 05:37 PM | Comments (0)
Mobile ESPN - a good MVNO idea
Mobile ESPN
ESPN has launched their MVNO service via their website and the demo does look pretty cool. It looks like they've done a damn good job of packaging and marketing this phone for the average pro sports fan - and i gotta admit, i'd be tempted if i cared about sports other than college football. So far there is one Sanyo phone (a good choice) and answers the question "How can I possibly get more sports into my life?"
Mobile ESPN really is running on the Sprint PCS network in the background over their EVDO network, so well, that's something you'll have to put up with if you wish to go this route.
technorati tags: mobile
Posted by Steve at 08:21 AM | Comments (1)
November 25, 2005
Google Desktop Index taking up 2.5 GIG of hard drive space
i really like Google Desktop and it provides some good utility for me in searching my files...but not 2.5 GIG worth. take a look at your c:\Documents And Settings\your account\Local Settings\Application Data\Google.
sigh, i had to turn off indexing, but i still love the sidebar, which is my to-do list.
technorati tags: google desktop
Posted by Steve at 08:36 AM | Comments (0)
November 10, 2005
the official S60 Blog
Nokia gets into the blogging game with their new S60 (ne Series 60) Blog
http://www.blogs.s60.com/seeintos60/posts.xml
Posted by Steve at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)
November 08, 2005
google paying $100 bounty for AdSense signups
you can find more details here.Posted by Steve at 10:05 AM | Comments (0)
November 07, 2005
Long or Short? announces $1 dividend
Long or Short? is hilarious. Highly recommended.
http://longorshort.blogspot.com/2005/11/longorshort-announces-1st-quarterly.html
technorati tags: feedburner
Posted by Steve at 05:27 PM | Comments (0)
Larry and Sergey's new jet
Reports are that Larry and Sergey have gone Austin Powers on us and bought their own jumbo jet. Yeah Baby! I can't wait to see what color they paint it. I imaging blue, black, and green.
meanwhile, reports are that Larry now habitates in the bat cave, not even telling his current girlfriend where he lives.
GOOG is now trading at $395Posted by Steve at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
November 06, 2005
paris is burning
lots of unrest in Paris - and i'm presenting there in a few weeks. it should be interesting to see how this plays out... i'm generally not a paranoid traveller. i was in London when the U.S. attacked Iraq, and in London again during the 7/7 bombings this year. it made things a little inconvenient, but that was about all.
Posted by Steve at 11:29 AM | Comments (191)
November 05, 2005
baby we were born to run
springsteen is podcasting: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BruceSpringsteen
Posted by Steve at 07:41 PM | Comments (4)
November 04, 2005
the always good MobileBurn does a 2MP shootout
Mobile Phone News and Reviews (MobileBurn)
I used to do these shootouts, but Michael Oryl just does such a better job. The K750 has the same camera as the W800i which is great. The N90 looks pretty nice as well.
Posted by Steve at 03:39 PM | Comments (30)
the best racing game for the PSP
Burnout Legends for PSP - Burnout Legends Sony PSP - Burnout Legends PSP Game
there's enough depth here for 10 coast to coast plane trips.
Posted by Steve at 10:16 AM | Comments (276)
interesting list of UMD movie releases
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/umd/umd-november-releases-135173.php
Good Times on the PSP. A Chicago favorite.
Posted by Steve at 10:09 AM | Comments (16)
November 03, 2005
and now an EVDO BlackBerry
straight from the Bell Canada site...we'll see if VzW picks this up
Posted by Steve at 08:29 AM | Comments (0)
Scoble on how people are finding blogs
Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » How are people finding blogs? It’s not blog search engines
This is so true - when i look at my blog traffic via blogbeat or Measure Map , both of which i recommend, i'd say about 99% of all my traffic comes from Google searches, and nothing else.
I'd love to know how many people do more than one hand-typed Technorati search per day - for their own name or company. Technorati is a vanity play, which is actually a great business model. They just need to admit it. Just don't let them fool you into thinking people actually use it as a search engine for anything else!
Posted by Steve at 06:34 AM | Comments (1)
November 02, 2005
new Nokia N92 is hot
Bluetooth, 2 Megapixel, 3G and Wifi. wow Wifi. VOIP anyone?
Not until Q2 06. man.
Posted by Steve at 01:46 PM | Comments (9)
new trend: PSP compatible websites
Ubergizmo has created a PSP compatible version of it's content - pretty cool new trend for some of these "ultrablogs" to do. I find myself using my PSP to do some random browsing quite a bit these days. It will be interesting to see if there is a cottage industry that pops up around content creation for the PSP, if there isn't already.
If you like gizmodo or engadget, give Ubergizmo a try.
feed here:
Posted by Steve at 10:15 AM | Comments (0)
November 01, 2005
BlackBerry 8700 [via Brghthand]
http://brighthand.com/article/RIM_Unveils_BlackBerry_8700
An EDGE BlackBerry is pretty cool - but this will start to come under some competition from the new Nokias and Motos with the new full keyboard...
Posted by Steve at 05:09 PM | Comments (0)
PSP Media Manager (and Pocast catcher)
I'm not sure why they are charging for this...why not give this away for free to sell more PSPs?
...but it's still cool. an audio and video manager for your PSP, direct from Sony.
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/showproduct.asp?pid=995
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Posted by Steve at 04:04 PM | Comments (4)
SE Z520 available
http://www.romeohifi.com/soz5qugsmun.html
A new release from Sony Ericsson - looks interesting
Posted by Steve at 02:34 PM | Comments (0)
A test from Flock
this is a test from the blogging tool within flock. Flock is a mozilla based browser with integration into delicious, flickr, and your blogging tools. i don't like delicious ( i prefer Yahoo MyWeb) but i'll give it a try anyway.
Posted by Steve at 02:20 PM | Comments (0)
this is how they market mobile phones in Japan
this is a very common sight in Akihabara in Tokyo. Voda is building a good brand there with their 3G service.
Posted by Steve at 10:16 AM | Comments (8)