Category: General

Kurt Eichenwald wrote this New York Times piece: ‘Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World’: Justin was a 13-year old boy when he started using his webcam to make money. It started off by undressing for money (sent instantly via PayPal) and soon became a bedroom industry of private voyeur cam sessions […]

When Google released the Google Maps API, they allowed developers to create hundreds of applications using maps from Google (my favorite being ChicagoCrime.org that allows me to see all the crimes on my neighborhood block). Now they’ve released the same interaction for Google Talk – they’re instant messaging and VOIP application. This puts them a […]

As everyone knows, TypePad has had another massive outage this past week – this one in connection to a data center move. The Six Apart gang burned through a large amount of goodwill just a few weeks ago with another outage. In an interview, one of their techs lays it out: The first is our […]

In an effort to up my weekly posting of words with the suffix -log: As shown in the charts below pings from blogs average around 8K per hour and those from splogs average around 25K. Clearly almost 3 out of 4 pings are spings! Going back further to the source of these spings, we observed […]

Google launched Google Music yesterday: Right now the music search feature mostly works for artists popular in the U.S. and a more limited number of artists from other countries, but we plan to expand it to classical music, worldwide artists, and lesser-known performers. Our list of music stores will also grow over time.

Mena Trott speaks on ‘civility in blogging’ at the Les Blogs conference: (doesn’t any one else think of the movie Les Girls when they read Les Blogs?) While I think it’s fairly difficult for a single blogger to hurt a company beyond repair by posting inaccurate information, I do believe a single blogger can cause […]

I don’t always cross between my personal and professional blog but last time I crossed from personal to pro I ended up Marketing Blog of the Year. This time we’re crossing the other way: my personal blog, Andymatic, has been nominated as one of the Best Gay Blogs of 2005. Please vote for me when […]

Structured Blogging seeks to standardize microformats across blogs and other media to make things more machine-readable.

Six Apart and Yahoo! join forces: (thnx, Des) Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo said it will offer commercial blogs based on Movable Type as part of its existing small business Web-site management service. Yahoo provides customers with a unique Web address, blogging tools and business-class e-mail services with spam and virus protections for less than $12 a […]

Watchdog Commercial Alert alleges: P&G, and several smaller buzz marketing specialists named in its complaint, “are perpetuating large-scale deception upon consumers” when people they recruit to promote products by word of mouth don’t disclose that fact, says Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert.