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Big brands now pay to add fake Twitter followers to their accounts

The Twitter Platform

October 13, 2013Business, TechnologyAndroid, API, BuddyMedia, Core, digital device, Facebook, Facebook Platform, fastests growing network, Forbes, Google, Google Now, Like button, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Sippey, mobile devices, payment solution, Product Release, real-time web, search engine, Share, Smart TV, social media, Social Networks, software clients, Text messaging, Twitter, Twitter usage, user management services, VP of product, Wall Street Journal, wearable computing interface, Web Index, Websites, World Wide Web, Zynga

Could Twitter succeed where Facebook failed?

Google Kills Reader, helps RSS

June 30, 2013Media, TechnologyAOL, API, Atom, back-end technology, Facebook, Google, Google Reader, individual player, mobile devices, News aggregators, Product Release, Reader, RSS, RSS Bandit, RSS tracking, Social Networks, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web feed, Web syndication, World Wide Web

Google killing Google Reader may be the best thing to have happened to the RSS ecosystem in a long time.

Why you must play

March 25, 2012BusinessAngry Birds, API, behavior, Corporation, Corporations law, Creativity, games, Google, Hackathon, Internet slang, Learning, OpenBSD, particular solution, play, play specialist, playing, point systems, processes, Product Issues, products, senior executive, Software development

The case for adult play

Facetime: an industry standard – when?

March 17, 2012Business, TechnologyAPI, Apple, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 4 Smartphone, awesome technology, Bank, brand new hardware, CEO, Facetime, iOS, ipad, iPhone, iTunes, Linux, magnificent solution, Microsoft Windows, mobile devices, Multi-touch, operating system, operating systems, OSX, Product Release, Skype, smartphones, Steve Jobs, Unix, unix-based operating systems, video-conferencing, video-conferencing network, video-conferencing technology, Videotelephony, web browsers, web browsing library

Apple promised to release Facetime as a standard. We’re still waiting.

The “Open” Graph

September 25, 2011Business, Media, TechnologyAndroid, API, Apple, Blog hosting services, Facebook, Facebook features, Facebook Inc, Facebook Platform, Google, Google Inc., Internet users, ITunes Ping, Like button, mobile phones, online experience, online marketing, online marketing world, online publishers, Online social networking, Open Graph, Open Web, Palo Alto, particular site, search data, search products, social media, Social Networks, Web 2.0, web browser, web standards, World Wide Web

Is Facebook the new face of advertising?

Fauxpenness

August 26, 2009Business, Technologyapache web server, API, Coral, Coral Reef, Coral reefs, Dave Winer, Energy, Facebook, Facebook Platform, fauxpenness, Friendfeed, HTML, httpd server, IBM, interesting software, iPhone, mainstream media, Microsoft, operating system, smartphones, social media, software code, systems, technology world, Twitter, web server, Websites, World Wide Web

Some companies pretend to be open. Introducing the concept of Fauxpenness, a definition, and some examples from current companies.

Googling Netscape

February 1, 2006Business, TechnologyAltavista, America, AOL, API, audio and video components, Bing, Browser wars, decent product, dynamic applications, early web browser, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Google Chrome, Google's mission, head, Internet Explorer, Internet suite, Java, Labor Issues, Marc Andreesen, media world, Microsoft, Netscape, Netscape Communicator, radio advertising, Search, search assets, search engine, search engine suffering, search index, search market, search space, search world, server products, Wall Street, web accelerator fit, web browsing, web page development tool, Web search engine, web servers, Windows 95, Yahoo, Yusuf Medhi

Why Google must learn the lessons Netscape never did.

Metrics — Weighting the Metrics

October 20, 2005BusinessAJAX, API, Business, eBay, expectation management, external network, Internet Explorer, Internet users, Inventory, Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operations research, Search, search engine, Supply chain management

Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this all weights out. Grouping the metrics In order to figure out weighting, I first started to think about how to group different metrics. For this purpose, I looked at things like the base value (which would give us a baseline as to how much a business is worth based solely on revenue and revenue growth), inventory (looking at things like traffic, reach, and output, because they all give us some data points as to the growth of monetizable assets in the future), consumer involvement (looking at info like links, subscribtions, and comments to define the value of customers), and growth potential (including some more fuzzy measure of potential growth and the advantages of the integration value). My reasoning for grouping things in this way was that it might make it easier to figure out weighting across those large catch-all categories (and, if there is any…

The day I broke Gmail

May 12, 2004TechnologyAPI, Cross-platform software, Email spam, Gmail, Google, Internet privacy, JavaScript, online operations, spam, Spamming, Squirrelmail, Web 2.0, Webmail, XML

Like many other geeks, I’ve gotten a Gmail account but unlike most people, it took me less than 48 hours to render unoperational (and this time, it’s not a joke). First of all, let me say that while it is an interesting package, it is not without flaws. For starters, the lack of indicator when the Spam folder and/or trash have stuff in them is a bit disturbing. Sure, it’s not that much of an issue when you have a gigabyte of space but, for those of us who are particularly clean when it comes to online operations (I generally try to keep my virtual trash relatively empty), it’s a bother. On the spam blocking end, Gmail does an OK job but is nowhere near as good as simply using Squirrelmail with SpamAssassin, or using the spamcop black-list. On the good side of this is the fact that, in the course of a day of use (about 600 messages, most of them spam), Gmail had no false positives in terms of tagging things as spam. On the bad side, it failed to tag hundreds of messages as spam. I’m assuming that Gmail has a learning curve, like other email packages,…

Google Ping

August 12, 2003TechnologyAdsense, API, Blo.gs, Blog hosting services, Blogrolling, Google, Internet marketing, Internet search engines, Ping, Ping I've, Technorati, Web 2.0, Web crawler, web site developers, weblog software, Weblogs.com, World Wide Web, XML

Google should create an infrastructure for quicker indexing

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Why you must play

Facetime: an industry standard – when?

Googling Netscape

Metrics — Weighting the Metrics

The day I broke Gmail

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