Focusing on What is Important
Recently I was asked to be interviewed for a new blog that is being created.
So what, right?
I am not tooting my own horn, but many of the questions were very thought out. I would like to share one of them:
Do Not Believe Everything Your Read
Okay, so I said it all in the title. Perhaps you need not even read this article as you may start off not believing it.
Today I read an article written by an unknown name in the SEO industry (at least unknown to me). It had a number of points focused on improving search rankings and provided a bunch of tips on how to improve the overall standings for a site. Sounds like a useful article, and for many who read it, I am sure it was – or at least seemed that way.
Circulation of a Web Based Content Site & Ad Network
Once you have a trusted market position advertisers will buy in even if you hurt their business model or call their products crap:
Yahoo Mail Develops An Open API
Web developers will have the ability to leverage the 250 million users of Yahoo Mail as they create innovative and interesting applications based on the product; Yahoo Mail vice president John Kremer can’t wait to see what they do.
Yahoo’s Mail API & Unlimited Storage
I’ll have more to say about some of the larger issues around this in a few days, but now that the embargo has been lifted (damn you, Om Malik), I wanted to point at the pair of announcements from Yahoo! Mail today and yesterday.
Wisdom of Crowds Is Dead
The problem with the human condition is that it involves humans. Bringing that condition online, fostering it with the Wisdom of Crowds philosophy, is slowly but surely proving what philosophers have said since humans first learned to write: the anonymous mob is powerful and passionate, but no more rational than an angry swarm of bees.
Microsoft And InfoNow Join Forces
Ever use a site’s “find a store” feature? It may have been provided by InfoNow, the company with which Microsoft joined up earlier today. According to an official statement, InfoNow intends to “integrate Microsoft Virtual Earth within its LocationInsight offering.”
Dell Rolls Out Linux Initiatives
For the past month, fans of the open source Linux operating system have been holding on to hope that Dell was serious about its intentions of packaging the OS with new systems and providing user support. Today, Linux enthusiasts received the happy news they have all been waiting for.
Analyst: MySpace Is A Goldmine
News Corp’s MySpace is hitting the jackpot according to Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield. He raised News Corp’s earning estimates based on the companies pending sale of DirecTV to Liberty Capital.
Greenfield says that MySpace is generating more than $30 million a month in revenue, $24 million in domestic revenue and $6 million internationally. He projects that over the next year monthly revenues will more than double.
StreetAdvisor Gives Little Guidance
After two and a half months in private beta, StreetAdvisor has become available to the general public. And yet I have to say that StreetAdvisor is “available to” – as opposed to “ready for” – the public, because the site is the cyber equivalent of a ghost town.
StreetAdvisor is intended to be a place for people to review and research residential streets throughout America, the UK, Canada, and Australia.