Nielsen: Digg Traffic Sucks. Mashable: That’s What She Said

The latest analysis from Jakob Nielsen’s UseIt focuses on “bounce rates” and getting that elusive “second click”. It’s pretty much in line with everything experts have been saying on this topic for the last couple of years: unique visitors are a bad way to measure traffic, traffic from loyal users and search engine traffic are [...]

Remember All Those SEO Tips You Read? They Are Wrong

Well, not all of them. But the one you’ll very frequently encounter went something along these lines: a search engine likes text. Therefore, if you’re building a Flash website, its position on search engines will, by definition, suck. Not any longer. Google, Yahoo and Adobe have worked together on a technology that will enable search [...]

coComment Tracks Your Reputation Across the Commentsphere

coComment is launching a number of new features this morning to attempt to further establish itself amidst a growing number of competitors that want to track your online conversations and reputation. The service, which both powers commenting features for some 20,000 websites and tracks conversations across 270,000 more, is introducing comment ranking, allowing users [...]

Google Talk Comes to the iPhone…And It’s Kinda Useless

Fanfare: Google Talk is now available for the iPhone. It features a snazzy interface (is it possible to create a shoddy interface for the iPhone?) and almost everything you can do on the desktop client: create a quicklist of favorite users, search, and manage multiple conversations at the same time. There’s one problem, though, which [...]

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<h1>The “Crisis” In Venture Capital</h1>
There were no venture-backed IPOs in the second quarter, and M&A deals are down. The last time there were no VC-backed IPOs in a quarter was in 1978. The liquidity drought for venture-backed startups is so bleak that the National Venture Capital Association is calling it a “crisis.” Last quarter there [...]
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<h1>How Do You Like The New Last.fm?</h1>
This is not new for folks who’ve been invited into Last.fm beta, but the bulk of users haven’t seen the new look, which is likely to become the default look soon. I like it; for some reason, it reminds me of Digg; everything got flattened, the design is a lot cleaner and a bit more [...]<br style=

New Media and Local News

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about localized news online over the last few months. I’ve tried to come at writing a post on the topic about ten different ways and wound up scrapping it each time. Presumably, if you’re reading this, a post I’ve written on the topic has finally passed muster. What’s finally [...]

Plurkmania Brings You All The Plurk Stats You Can Eat

When I initially wrote about Plurk, I noted that while it was a great service, I don’t see it gaining too much traction because of its similarity to Twitter which seems to be in that comfy spot where no one really wants to switch to another service, whichever novelties it may bring. Fast forward one [...]

Graspr Gets $2.5M for Instructional Video Network, Launches Syndication Program

Since launching almost a year ago at DEMOfall, how-to video network Graspr has reportedly sourced and filtered over 20,000 instructional videos through its network. In an effort to take this content to the next level, Graspr is announcing its new syndication platform, which is designed to help users edit, promote, distribute and track their [...]
WordPress has now unveiled its own application for iPhone and iPod touch users for mobile management of blogs built upon its platform. And while it is somewhat generic-looking in presentation — added walking directions to its Google Maps product today. The walking directions ignore one-way streets and Google Maps tries to give pedestrians the most direct and flat route possible. As Google itself acknowledge

Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of.

Tipit, a startup that lets users tip website owners for their content, has launched integration with Twitter. Users can now ‘Tweet’ their tips to websites and Twitter users, even those without an account. There isn’t any kind of installation required: users simply tweet a message in the format “d tipit TARGET AMOUNT MESSAGE” [...]

Identi.ca: The Force Is Strong With This One (But is no Jedi, Yet)

First there was Twitter. Then there came a host of other services that tried their hands at status microblogging, the most of which fell by the wayside as Twitter gained dominance. Then came FriendFeed, and some folks realized that this short style of blogging, conversing and status-updating was pretty fun. Then people remembered Utterz, and [...]

Here Comes The iPhone App Store

It looks like green lights all the way for the launch of the iPhone App Store this week. Most developers have been told they must submit their applications by 12 PM PDT today (Monday) to be considered for inclusion in the launch: “Have your application be among the first available when the App Store goes [...]

One Year Later: Ooma

Consumer VoIP startup Ooma launched nearly a year ago and offered consumers free phone service for life, all you had to do was buy the hardware for $399. Just one problem. The sticker shock of paying $399 up front for the hardware put a lot of users off. And there weren’t many places you could actually [...]

The Importance Of Being Linked

After examining his biggest traffic sources, Louis Gray has noticed that links from blogs simply aren’t that important any more. I agree with his conclusions, although I don’t think that the data set he uses really proves his point. The fact is, there are links and there are links. A fleeting reference to a blog [...]

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