Joost Takes On YouTube in Viacom Deal

According to a story in the Wall Street Journal this morning (reg. required), entertainment colossus Viacom has signed a distribution deal with Joost, the peer-to-peer streaming television service that Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom started up with the billions they made selling Skype.

Wiki Champion or Wiki Bully?

The biggest challenge that most managers or work team leaders face when they decide to use a wiki is getting their coworkers to use it too. Some organizations have been extremely effective at getting mass participation on their wikis, others have simply failed altogether.

A Comic Book Community From MySpace

Social networking site MySpace has branched out into the world of comic books. Late last week MySpace launched MySpace Comic Book community, “a Place for Comic Books”.

MySpace Sending Spam?

I lived to see this day come to bear .. Myspace sending SPAM "member" emails, to an email address, that doesn't exist (bliggy[at]bliggs.com), on one of my domains. All the headers are legit, and the "member" email is sent to a "confirmed email". Go figure guys.

Link Buying and Link Development

I've recently been on a particularly aggressive link buying spree. Although as a SEO I know buying links means buying some degree of placement on search engines, and Google is the main target. However, I'm buying for informational sites - communities and blogs - with no real revenue streams. So instead of trying to link bomb for money keywords, I'm trying to hit longtail search…