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Honestly, The Winklevoss Remora Should Have Bought MySpace, Here’s Why
A few minutes ago, I jokingly tweeted: “@tylerwinklevoss and @winklevoss should have bought @myspace and shown @finkdwhat’s up.” Now I’m starting to actually think I’m right. Here’s why: These guys are fighting the perception that they’re just suckerfish on the Zuckerberg shark. If they honestly think they’re the brains behind Facebook, they should use their brains to eclipse [...]
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The White iPhone 4 is Obama’s Birth Certificate
For the last year, it’s been a lot of fun to watch how Apple has treated the white iPhone 4. I’m a cynic, but it seemed like anytime Apple was getting a little too much negative press, the white iPhone rumors would start back up and distract everybody. Was Apple actually waiting for an iPhone [...]
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Beat the New York Times Paywall with the Stop Button
I don’t read the New York Times much. I like their Chrome web app, but I just don’t always dig their content. It’s just a little oddly pretentious. (If I want pretension, I’ll read The Economist.) So the NYT 20-free-articles-a-month limit isn’t a big deal to me (I probably only read 3 articles in a [...]
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Can Web Design Be Great? Or Can It Only Be Terrible? #gawkerfail
Gawker’s redesign has me thinking about website design. I hate their new look. It’s terrible. I dislike it so much, I’m not going to even link to their site. Maybe it caters to tablets, but that’s such a small segment of the market at this point — it makes no sense to alienate the keyboard/mouse [...]
What’s My Media Empire Worth?
I wrote about AOL’s acquisition of TechCrunch a few months ago. This week, AOL bought the Huffington Post for the same reasons — great, niche content with low(ish) overhead. Instead of WordPress, Huff Po is built on Movable Type. AOL wants content — not tech. Anyway, this got me thinking. Is $315,000,000 a good deal? [...]
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Nope, StumbleUpon Is Not Bigger Than Facebook, Sorry StatCounter
If you believe StatCounter (and probably StumbleUpon as well), StumbleUpon drives more traffic to external sites than Facebook. According to this blog, “StatCounter is measuring the share of traffic sent out from seven major social media outlets …” Which is fine until you start thinking about it. Here’s why it’s misleading at best: That last [...]
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What did AOL buy? Why TechCrunch was an attractive target.
AOL announced their purchase of TechCrunch today. That’s big news. What made this technology news site so attractive? Let’s look: Great content TechCrunch publishes great content. They are the go-to spot for breaking tech news. Compete.com pegs them at 2.5 million unique visitors per month. That’s impressive. Owning this content gives AOL a great new [...]
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Welcome To WordPress, Glenn Beck … The Image Of Flame Is A Powerful!
Glenn Beck has a news site, TheBlaze.com. Unfortunately, he must have read my ‘Anatomy of a Smart Site‘ post. Damn! He’s using WordPress, has a focused message (hate?), and is socially integrated. Triple damn. People are actually going to read (and believe) this thing. photo credit: Andrew Aliferis Update, hilarious update: Jack Shepard over [...]
10 Reasons We All Want Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie To Break Up
While Ian Undercover keeps us updated on the latest Brad/Angelina gossip, I’ll dive into the deeper psychological motivations we all have when evaluating the relationship. Or I’ll make some jokes. Secretly, we have a crush on Brad, right? For some, maybe it’s a man-crush. Others, it’s a crush-crush. We think he’d be a fun guy [...]
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I was wrong: EVERYBODY* wants an iPhone 4S