January 31, 2006
ZoomTags is a new way to implement a commercial tag cloud with revenue potential on a website or blog. This new type of commercial tag cloud offers keywords from a tag cloud up for sale. Michael Arrington profiles ZoomTags on TechCrunch and brings up a wonderful point in saying: "Nothing,...
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January 31, 2006
Exxon reported profits this year of $36.1 Billion, the highest in US history. $36.1 BILLION! This is difficult to fathom gas prices were skyrocketing out of control for most of 2005. Not to mention, it makes it fairly clear as to why there haven't been faster advances in alternate fuel...
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January 31, 2006
Wired Magazine characterized the recent boom (not bubble) that has emerged in Silicon Valley in an article titled The New Boom in the February 2006 issue. I think this quote describes the difference between a boom and a bubble nicely: "Bubbles are inflated with hot air and speculation. They end...
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January 30, 2006
I just ran across a very interesting mashup application called GooRSS that was pointed out to me by Steve Rubel. GooRSS is a mixture of Google search and RSS via instantRSS that was offered up in a magnificent post by Miel Van Opstal aggregating a list of RSS tools. If...
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January 30, 2006
There is some speculation in blogosphere and by Forbes that Google will soon to be taking on Apple and their prized iTunes music store head on. According to the analyst Bear Stearns who maintained an "outperform" rating on Google because he believes they may be looking to expand into the...
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January 29, 2006
Rich Ziade posted a nice piece detailing the various ways to leverage RSS and I explanded on it on Somewhat Frank last week (January 23, 2006). Receiving travel deals via RSS was listed in Rich's post. Ironically, the New York Times highlighted this use of RSS for syndicating travel deals...
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January 29, 2006
I have been using the Yahoo Mail Beta for a few months now and I like it a lot. I think it takes online webmail a step further with it's Microsoft Outlook look and feel and functionality. Lately though, I have been receiving several pop-up windows that resemble the one...
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January 28, 2006
This past Tuesday (January 24, 2006) spam was the topic of a column by Tom Spring on PCWorld.com. The column explains the next generation of spam and in one section title "Spam Outside The Inbox" covers the emergence of splog or spam blogs online. Splog Reporter was mentioned in the...
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January 28, 2006
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Joseph T. Hallinan highlighted the recent drops in auto advertising of the newspaper publishing companies including the Tribune and McClatchy Co. According to the article: Revenue from auto classifieds has now fallen for seven straight quarters, to $1.01 billion in the third quarter...
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January 27, 2006
It was recently reported yesterday (January 26, 2006) on JenSense that Google AdSense has moved its rich media ads into the Beta phase with certain publishers. Somewhat Frank was not one of the publishers selected. Nonetheless, this could be a very important move by Google, one that could put them...
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January 27, 2006
I just stumbled upon an online publishing site called iJot. It's catchphrase is to "Take Note!" so I took it literally thinking the site is an online repository for jotting notes. I attempted to find out more information via the links provided on the site but they all seemed to...
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January 26, 2006
Apparently you can patent character groupings known as emoticons since I just read Cingular was allowed to patent mobile emoticons. At first glance I thought this sounded absurd. How can a mobile company or anyone for that matter own characters grouped together to form an alternate meaning like the smiley...
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January 25, 2006
With Google's decision to launch a censored version of its search engine in China heeding the strict censorship laws of the Chinese government, many are left to question Google's stance on freedom. However, this move may not have been totally in Google's control since they do have to obey China's...
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January 25, 2006
I want to highlight an excellent quote that I recently read in the book compiled by Seth Godin titled The Big Moo. The actual quote by John Seely Brown a renown thinker in the area of management said: “The job of a leader isn’t just to make decisions, it is...
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January 25, 2006
I posted about Podzinger a few days ago here but wanted to mention an interesting feature that I came across. Podzinger gives you the ability to save searches as RSS feeds. The feeds can then be imported into Apple's iTunes to be at your preferred interval. You can then upload...
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