Friday, July 21, 2006

Netscape.com declares war on digg.com?

Recently Netscape announced about offering 1000$ for people to provide content for their news-services.

Nearly same time there was article about digg.com cliques and how just 20 people control whole thing. First story is already creating cracks (or making it stronger) to digg.com community, maybe it was intentional purpose?

Is there war going on between netscape.com vs digg.com or is this war between coalition of independent (and commercial) news-services "less popular than digg.com" vs digg.com? :D

Digg.com is on Alexa.com top100, which is good achievement for fairly new web-service. Other similar services aren't so popular and this way they are not so "important". Netscape.com is trying to jump to the band-wagon, but their $$$ tactique has already caused negative impressions on blogosphere. Netscape.com seems to have problems getting people to "digg" their stories and submitting new ones.

Maybe this whole thing is just incident, there isn't any "war" going on, just small battle of nerds (sorry :) ) souls, who voluntarily bring "free" content for community driven news-services. While explaining their $$$ idea, Netscape recruit Jason Calacanis says that crowdsourcing is outmoded idea.

Netscape is trying to bridge the gap between journalism and blogging by paying a small amount for incoming content and using "Netscape Anchors" to moderate the submissions.

Calacanis has said that the eight anchors, or "metajournalists" as he terms them, have backgrounds as bloggers and as traditional journalists. The anchors are responsible for highlighting the more interesting reader-submitted stories and providing richer, more in-depth analysis.


This I found quite interesting idea. It would make netscape.com like crossover between community driven news-service and traditional news agency. Future shows how well this idea works in practice.



Related articles:

digg.com - Wikipedia
Crowdsourcing - Wired Magazine

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Why you shouldn't email Microsoft Word documents

Here we go again... doc-pdf-rtf-odt-txt or some other format for your documents?

lifehacker.com - article.

There's some interesting comments and useful links on the story.

Friday, July 14, 2006

MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song

Rupert has been a bad boy? :(

After hearing Sen. Ted Stevens' now infamous description of the internet as a "series of tubes," Andrew Raff sang the senator's words over a folksy ditty and anonymously posted it to MySpace.com, where about 2,500 people listened to the tune, thanks to a link from one of the net's top blogs.

On Tuesday, MySpace canceled the TedStevensFanClub account, telling Raff that the social-networking site, now owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., had received a "credible complaint of your violation of the MySpace Terms of Services."

(Editor's note: MySpace reinstated Raff's account Thursday afternoon following publication of this story. The company says Raff's account was deleted in error.)

The cancellation e-mail referenced a number of prohibited activities, including trademark and copyright violations. MySpace also reserves the right to remove any profile for any reason.

But Raff, a recent graduate from law school, didn't violate any copyright laws in using the Alaskan senator's words, since government works cannot be protected by copyright. And Raff composed the music himself.


Read whole story.

I'm not judging anyone, I'm just sharing this story for teh people. The truth is out there? * whistling X-files tune *

The Popularity of Blogs - according to Comscore

Interesting stats about blogs popularity! Must reading for all commment spammers! ;>)

Myspace blogs seems to quite popular, even thought myspace design layout is horrible, specially with blogs, unless you mod them yourself. I might comment this thing more later, now it's too hot for doing it!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

I want to be Ruperts friend.

Does anyone know what's Rupert Murdochs myspace profile?

I wan't to be his friend.

I heard a rumour that he is buying teh internet.

Why comment spam is dumb - attention quick cash webmasters!

I am starting to believe that Google does more than simply not follow “nofollow” links. I think that they may look at the percentage of nofollow links a site recieves and if it is greater than X %, the site is considered spammy.

If that is the case, one has to wonder if a “nofollow” link actually works as a vote against a site. After all, if you are saying with the nofollow tag “I don’t trust this link”, the search engines may decide they don’t want to trust that site, either.


seoblackhat.com article about comment spam.

So... with comment spam you're actually indexing your site out of the game, if I've understood article correctly.

Nice work, maybe it would be time for webmasters to find REAL marketing tactiques for promoting their click-thru shit, instead of "quick cash" bots, which are only ruining internet and causing loads of "ghost" traffic.

EH? :(

The Cheater’s Guide to Writing Great Headlines

Imagine the life of the copywriter . . . a solitary figure staring intently at a computer screen (or out the window), flexing those mental muscles to create a killer headline out of thin air that will result in millions of dollars in sales.

Well, maybe not.

A more likely scenario has the copywriter looking for inspiration in her collection of winning space ads, sales letters and even the latest issue of Cosmo. She’ll also consult books that consist of nothing more than collections of headlines proven to work.


Hmm... interesting theory, because I just read story about how to write succesfull "digg" stories. Not gaming with digg.com, but writing stories which gets loads of diggs. I guess it's all question about writing catchy headlines, I'm not really good with it, so... hell YEAH! Soon this weblog will be buzzing of new visitors, aliens reading about youtube and fashinating stories about guerilla marketing. People will go bezerk and I simply say... "pwned".

Read whole article here.

Why comment spam is dumb - attention quick cash webmasters!

I am starting to believe that Google does more than simply not follow “nofollow” links. I think that they may look at the percentage of nofollow links a site recieves and if it is greater than X %, the site is considered spammy.

If that is the case, one has to wonder if a “nofollow” link actually works as a vote against a site. After all, if you are saying with the nofollow tag “I don’t trust this link”, the search engines may decide they don’t want to trust that site, either.


seoblackhat.com article about comment spam.

So... with comment spam you're actually indexing your site out of the game, if I've understood article correctly.

Nice work, maybe it would be time for webmasters to find REAL marketing tactiques for promoting their click-thru shit, instead of "quick cash" bots, which are only ruining internet and causing loads of "ghost" traffic.

EH? :(

The Cheater’s Guide to Writing Great Headlines

Imagine the life of the copywriter . . . a solitary figure staring intently at a computer screen (or out the window), flexing those mental muscles to create a killer headline out of thin air that will result in millions of dollars in sales.

Well, maybe not.

A more likely scenario has the copywriter looking for inspiration in her collection of winning space ads, sales letters and even the latest issue of Cosmo. She’ll also consult books that consist of nothing more than collections of headlines proven to work.


Hmm... interesting theory, because I just read story about how to write succesfull "digg" stories. Not gaming with digg.com, but writing stories which gets loads of diggs. I guess it's all question about writing catchy headlines, I'm not really good with it, so... hell YEAH! Soon this weblog will be buzzing of new visitors, aliens reading about youtube and fashinating stories about guerilla marketing. People will go bezerk and I simply say... "pwned".

Read whole article here.

Is this thing on?

HALOO?

I guess this blog is now part of blogsphere and teh internet right now, click.