Monthly Archives: April 2007

MySpace Marketing a Viral Miracle? I’d Love To See The Proof

Well, there is some, except I think its lacking.

Recommended Reads for April 24, 2007

Recommended reads are a few things of interest noted around the web. Today, there are 4 reads.

Photobucket Yields To MySpace, Makes Blogging Faux-Pas In Process

So you may or may not have heard that MySpace stopped Photobucket from being able to embed its video into MySpace accounts. It was hailed as yet another way for Rupert to flex his MySpace muscle, and I was one of a few bloggers wondering whether this wasn’t just an elaborate sabre rattling manoever [...]

PayPerPost Acquires Zoodooka, Branches Out Into Email Marketing?

In spite of the somewhat universal derision that PayPerPost gets in some blogging circles, it continues to expand and grow in its own way; earlier yesterday, there was news leaked to TechCrunch that it was acquiring Zoodooka, a blog-to-email service with about 10 000 subscribers.  Look for PayPerPost to cross market its services to those [...]

Dell’s Crowdsourcing More Than Hype: Tells Microsoft to “Suck It!”

Well, not in as many words. But as a follow up to Microsoft’s contracts stipulating that new PC’s to be sold in 2008 will *only* be allowed to ship with Vista, it seems like Dell is intent on making IdeaStorm more than a pretty “Digg Clone”. Ideastorm, for those not following the story, [...]

Question Of The Day: Who *Does* Have The Time?

Scoble asks an interesting question: “How much video content is too much video content?” I’ve got a better question — who has the time to watch that much, if any, online video? And this is a question for bloggers now who have an interest in the technology part of the blogosphere.
My own prejudice [...]

Mac Hacked? Even I’m Not That Impressed.

Interesting news out of a security conference in Western Canada. Apparently someone has actually hacked a Macbook through a zero-day security hole. Yes, we could insert lots of cheering and posturing on behalf of Micrsofies everywhere. While I don’t pretend to be a security expert, from what I read it looks like [...]