Feedburner stats now completely useless
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If you think your feedburner stats were a little odd to begin with, the addition of FriendFeed stats has completely made them irrelevant to anything you might want to do with them. Case in point, is a new blog launched June 11th 2009, that was quickly tied in everywhere, that has 439 RSS [...]
Amazon adds charge when ship
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Something to get Amazon third party sellers all in a tizzy this morning is a new “feature” or mandatory process called charge when ship. If you are selling on Amazon this morning you are going to see a number of new changes to your screen, its mandatory, and no all the whining the [...]
FriendFeed takes an unexpected hard stop
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For those of you who are wondering, FriendFeed has taken an unexpected hard stop to their service. Hopefully this will be short, but then you never know. In the mean time legions of FriendFeed users will continue to panic as they have to go to Twitter or Facebook to get their real time [...]
Rebranding my Startup
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Noticed on the Seattle 2.0 list they have a book store in their startup listing, taking a look through the competitor’s web site, I decided that if I wanted to get on the Seattle 2.0 startup list, then it might be a good idea to refocus what the startup should be about, and [...]
Social Media Influence in the Iranian Elections
The newspapers have been generally useless in covering the Iranian elections over the weekend. While the major media outlets have let the story drop on the cutting room floor a robust and notable process of information flow is happening via Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed over the weekend. What the media will not cover, the social [...]
Innovation Economics
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One of the new research arms not just in academia, but in business as well is a model that can predict the outcome of innovation, who has it, how do they use it, how can we harness it for personal or corporate advantage/gain. The problem is that innovation economics requires humans, and [...]
Building 43 what Wordpress plugins do they use
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Taking a quick look at Robert Scobles new project over at Building 43 to see how Rackspace and Robert are working together to talk about what they do and what the goals of Building 43 are going to be, didn’t find much about goals, but found a pot of gold in the web [...]
Police trying to confiscate your camera is now no problem
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One of the things that as a photographer who takes something like 3000 to 4000 pictures a year, and has photographed buildings, police, emergency response reactions to fire, arrests and other stuff has been the police cracking down under the idea that photographing a building is against the law.
I have always worried [...]
Time spent on social networking doubles in the last year
How much of this is driven by the 9.2% unemployment rate is unknown, but Nielsen released a report this week called “Global Faces and Networked Places” which has some amazing statistics on how much time people are spending on social networking sites.
The winners are the new folks, sites like Twitter with a 3712 percent [...]
NY State embraces Social Networking
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In good news for today, NY State IT Department has issued a series of guidelines for State Agencies to use Web 2.0, new media and social collaborative tools. The downside is that there is going to have to be training, the upside to the Empire 2.0 strategy is that it could end up [...]
Ownership of a social network is not easy
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There are many people out there who are going to tell you that owning and running a social network is easy, the real truth is that not only it is not easy, but it can seriously cut into time to do much of anything else that you might have had planned to [...]
RIAA three strikes policy still failing to engage ISPs
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The RIAA still has problems getting ISP’s to agree to sign up for a “Three strikes you are out” policy when it comes to their users using P2P applications on their networks. While this does not mean that it is not happening, what it means is that no one has publicly admitted that [...]
Do not forget to track your RSS statistics
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When you are measuring what you are doing on any public platform, blog, podcast, or other process, the inclusion of your RSS statistics are an important addition to any statistics you are keeping. Here is an example of what I see here at Techwag.
The full on Feedburner stats for all time (going [...]
Are we as well off technologically as we think we are in Seattle
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Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington Computer Science department has a lot to say, and most of the time is great to listen to him, or read his pages out on the UofW web site. But when it comes to Seattle, he thinks we still have a long way to go when [...]
Where in the world is Louis Gray
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The answer to the question is that he is “everywhere” and keeping up with Louis Gray can be difficult. Louis is involved in so many things; he makes the idea of multi-tasking seem easy. I was able to track him down and he was gracious enough to do an e-mail interview with me [...]
