Google domains going after Outlook? MSN did that months ago...
In New Gatekeepers Are Still *GATEKEEPERS*
I feel I'm in some kind of bind here. — I have this idea that the blogosphere is the one place in the world …
Preview of 3Bubbles
Silicon Valley based 3Bubbles, which launches next week, is going to be an awesome way for bloggers and other websites to extend the conversation on the things that they write about. — They have cre...
Web Development 2.0
I gave a rushed and somewhat incoherent talk at the Y Combinator Winter Founder's Program last night (and let me say again — holy cow, they have such great taste in people — the companies they're fund...
Guest Posting: The Voice Long Tail
My good friend Chris Wood and I have been discussing the long tail concept, as it applies to voice, for several months now. Chris works for an unnamed traditional telco. In this short essay he intro...
Confirming a penalty
Note: Remember my disclaimer that this is my personal site and that the views expressed here are not those of my employer? For this post, I am speaking in my official capacity as head of the webspam ...
Search site retires iconic Jeeves
Jeeves the valet who for a decade has overseen searches on the Ask website is about to be sacked. — By the end of February the iconic valet will disappear from the site he has graced since it debute...
Congratulations, Rocketboom
So Rocketboom's ad auction came off with a rather obscure advertiser — TRM, an ATM and photocopy vending company — getting the privilege to be the first to promote on the hottest vlog ... and to get f...
When network blogs change history it cannot be a good thing
The big blog networks are businesses and as such it is in their best interest to spread google juice and link love among all the blogs on their network. This means that when they have a chance to lin...
Tales of DRM
Since people like to take shopping carts, the local supermarket used to have barriers to keep you from wheeling them beyond a small territory outside the store's door. To get your groceries, you drov...
the mobile designer
Mobile designers are the bridge between the end user and the engineering community. Unlike the web or mainstream design world, mobile designers cannot be simply visually or brand-oriented. It is man...
Scoble, Your Mind is Calling. It Wants to Come Home.
Robert Scoble — "Microsoft's kept blogger", to use Nick Carr's apt phrase — rages that the reason why Google's Gmail for Domains got a nice mention here yesterday was because I run Adsense ads. That ...
Wikipedia Editor Treats Danny Sullivan Like a Spammer
Looks like Danny Sullivan headed over to Wikpedia and added some links including one to his site on their page discussing SEO which only had links to search engines. This did not sit well with a wiki...
QumanaXP public beta launched
For the past few weeks, I've been trying out the closed beta versions of QumanaXP, an offline blog editing tool that is available in versions for Windows and Mac platforms. — While I've not been usi...