What exactly is this Social Media malarkey, and why do some people reach the lofty status of influential rockstar while others fall flat on their faces?
There seems to be a growing consensus among the down-trodden majority that social media simply isn’t fair, and that a handful of power-users must have got where they are by [...]
New York based Gawker Media has sold three blogs from its impressively sized array of online publications, because Managing Editor, Nick Denton couldn’t care less about the subject matter, citing a failure to generate enough ad-revenue to make it worth the effort.
The three blogs being dropped are Gridskipper, Idolator and Wonkette, all of which are [...]
Google has responded to frequent speculation by news authors about how the service ranks news items for importance, and how timing, and the use of images affects the chances of being featured.
This unusually open response from the search giant differs from their one-size-fits-all response of “It’s all in the algorithm” they tend to dish-out to [...]
Nononina, the company behind Truemors has launched a brand-new blog aggregator by the name of Alltop.com. This simple but convenient service is similar to Techmeme and Popurls, except that it sports a very simple, yet highly navigable layout that’s an absolute godsend for the obsessive reader who spends hours a day traversing countless RSS feeds [...]
If you want to successfully pitch your start-up to VC’s, you’re going to have to get inside the head of the decision makers before you even put pen to paper. Venture Capital Firms are inundated with pitches from entrepreneurial hopefuls, many of which get a big fat ‘no’.
Which is where a healthy dose of research [...]
The arrogantly titled Blog Council, managed by GasPedal, Chicago, IL, is the most ludicrous and ill-conceived idea to ever come out of a backward-thinking corporate cesspool that’s so desperate to get a piece of the pie, it’s willing to inject archaic web 1.0 sensibilities into the flourishing social phenomena the rest of us call blogging.
These [...]
Search giant Google has announced that it is joining NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense) in a traditional effort to track the movements of the obese bearded flying fatty, loved by kids the world over. This is a tradition that started with a phone mix-up in the US, when kids were given a direct line to [...]
I got an interesting email last night from David Hissami, CEO of The Whoa Show, who wanted to clarify a TechCrunch Article comparing the service to an Exquisite Corpse, which he felt was inaccurate.
I guess TC author Erick Schonfield is sticking to his guns, so armed with some new info, StartupEarth sets the record straight.
The [...]
Every blogger loves widgets, and many also quite like money (that’s why they’re always banging on about it) so what could be better than a widget that makes money? Until someone finds a way to involve beer in that equation , WidgetBuck$ might just be the answer.
The idea is simple; you embed the widget code [...]
BlogRush is a smart new idea for getting exposure for your blog posts, which are shown via a widget on related sites every time your own widget is loaded. What makes this one stand out from all the others, is that it only drives targetted traffic from similar blogs, using both your chosen category and [...]