Someday I Hope to Make $1

Just $1. That’s all I need. And this thermos. And my remote control… and these matches. But that’s all I need. Yahoo’s Terry Semel made $1 last year. So did Larry, Sergei and Doc Schmidt. Just $1. Makes you feel kinda like a bigshot for a second doesn’t it? No? I mean, here are these […]

Yahoo Gets Sectional With Robots.txt

Yahoo's spiders will obey a new tag, called robots-nocontent, that will allow webmasters to discretely define content on a page they do not want to have indexed.

The Competitive Nature of Internet Marketing

I recently read John Reese's PDF announcing the launch of his new Income.com site. In the PDF he talks about how competitive internet marketing will become in the coming 5 years, and stated what are the two main ingredients to large sustainable profit in that type of marketplace. The first is on the concept of optimization:

Why Most Web2.0 Companies Fail

If you improve the value of another service based largely on their infrastructure or data, it usually doesn't take much for them to roll your offering into their well known brand, and kill your market position. Alexaholic was praised by Alexa for being innovative, right up until they sued when the creator failed to sell them the domain name. It took a year for Alexa…

Digg Embroiled In HD DVD Controversy

The posting of a code that decrypts HD DVD format DRM caused plenty of uproar at the social news site when Digg administrators took down posts and banned accounts over it. That was just the start.