There’s nothing improper about the VP of aftermarket domain auctions bidding up domain prices, says GoDaddy, but they’ve banned employees from participating in the future anyway, just to make everybody happy. And likely, to make the all the dirty looks go away. What looked like an idle comment in NamePros.com’s domain forum stirred up the hornets nest a bit. The comment from a senior forum member going by Stevie read this way:
Boing Boing & Slashdot On Flickr’s Patent Attempt
Boing Boing: Flickr files a patent for “interestingness” Well a few weeks back I posted on Yahoo’s attempt to patent interestingness after reading a notice on the patent at Bill Slawksi’s excellent blog SEO by the Sea. And yesterday both Boing Boing and Slashdot picked up on the story as well.
JobThread Weaves Job Boards For Slashdot
Ultra-geeky and venerable tech news site Slashdot will have its job listings powered by JobThread, a company that provides the site publisher with the turnkey software in exchange for a piece of the classified action.
Slashdot Picks Its Redesign
The long-running “news for nerds, stuff that matters” website will undergo a facelift after its editors selected a redesign from a number of submissions.
Slashdot, Digg, And All That Traffic
Once an old iPod story on kottke.org got Dugg, visitors streamed to the story; then Slashdot picked up the story and the fun really began.
Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006?
Okay, since I’m apparently in “2006 doom and gloom” mode here’s another observation that I can re-brand as a 2006 prediction.
Slashdot Offering 30 Minute Advance Look
The DayPass, offered by Slashdot’s parent Open Source Technology Group, will give users the chance to see new stories and content first.
Findory Mentioned On Slashdot
I just thought it was cool that Findory, still the only news site I find worth visiting, got a cool mention on Slashdot.
Is Slashdot Poster Really an Apple Employee?
An Apple employee (at least he claims to be an Apple employee) is over on Slashdot saying some interesting things…
The Diminishing Slashdot Effect
BusinessWeek is running a piece on Slashdot’s diminishing “slashdot effect” – citing analysts and site owners that are saying a link from the grandfather tech site no longer means what it once did to the sites it links to.