Category: General

Those crazy TLA guys are at it again: Flat rate pricing. Feedvertising is not based on page views or cost-per-click. It’s about “cost-per-influence” and reaching your target audience. Targeted ad buys. With Feedvertising, you get to choose the exact blogs where your ad will appear. You’ll never have to worry about ending up on low […]

I’ve toyed with this a bit too – glad to see a full tutorial: How to turn a normal WordPress installation into a working online shop (without too many tears) Loads of people I know would like to set up shop online, and either don’t have the time or money to have a designer / […]

Charlene Li and friends need your help: The working idea is to create a framework for measuring the ROI of external blogging efforts for medium- and large-sized companies. Below is an outline of ingredients for the framework.  Please help us by fleshing out sources, providing examples, and adding/editing our ROI factors – feel free to […]

Now why didn’t I think of that.

Yahoo continues to open up their expertise for others to use and leverage: You build great web applications. We have millions of users who store their data on Yahoo!. Browser-Based Authentication (BBAuth) makes it possible for your applications to use that data (with their permission). BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) facility so that […]

John Chow has a fun list of the top biggest Google ‘whores’ including Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com – $300,000 per month Markus Frind is a local Vancouverite who is turning the online dating world upside down. His site, Plentyoffish.com is the biggest free dating site on the Internet. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views […]

From Mark Forster author of Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play: We put up resistance to things that challenge us. Feeling resistance is usually a sign that we should be doing something. The secret to good life management is to do what we are resisting the most at any given time.

George Lakoff (author of the stupendous Don’t Think of an Elephant’) if back with 12 reasons why progressives keep screwing up their campaigns. Regardless of your party affiliation, this is valuable stuff to know because it applies so much to business marketing. Progressives often argue that “truth doesn’t need to be framed” and that the […]

After allowing the amateur community to create the podcasting phenomenon, then leveraging the support and technology created by other people, Apple is now going after companies that try to put the word ‘pod’ or ‘podcast’ in their names. What a bunch of assholes. Somebody’s lawyers aren’t busy enough. Other suggest we move to terms like […]

That article from StartupNation.com made its way into the Wall Street Journal print edition! Booyah!