Monthly Archives: July 2007

Off the Cuff: webomatic groove, me too and stuff

July 31, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Well it looks like Jason from webomatica had some fun in his trip to D.C. except for one thing. He kept running into people who looked at him strange when he talked about Twitter not to mention the ones who passed him a kleenex when he said blog. It’s amazing the reality shift that [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Pipeline | Comments (1)

Blog pirates aren’t anything new

July 31, 2007 – 4:59 pm

Gordon Finlayson over at Download Squad posted a piece about those slime buckets that scrape hard working bloggers content and stick it inside AdSense farms - otherwise known as splogs.
Gordon might call them pirates but I prefer to say useless thieves without an original thought in their heads and I hate to break it to [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Blogging | Comments (2)

When does search become a real personal assistant?

July 30, 2007 – 5:20 pm

For years now we have been led to believe that the only way we could find any useable information from the monstrosity called the Internet was to use Google. After all Google changed the way search was done didn’t it .. or did it really.
Maybe in the beginning days of its existence in a garage this [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Google, Internet |

Once is more than enough thank you

July 30, 2007 – 3:58 pm

Much is said about dealing with information overload in our computerized world of communication; whether it be RSS feeds, reading blog posts, following some-ones twittering’s or reading boring redundancies on a Facebook wall. The problem is when they are all saying exactly the same frikken thing.
Seriously … people have their blog posts being fed [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Blogging, Hype, Internet | Comments (1)

There’s hope for me yet

July 29, 2007 – 1:51 pm

I found out today via Rex Hammock that it is Doc Searls birthday so first off a happy birthday goes out to the venerable Doc on this special day.
What was even better though was something that I found out in Rex’s post:
One thing he said several years ago, when someone was commenting about all [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Miscellaneous | Comments (1)

Okay Robert … time to put the kool-aid down

July 28, 2007 – 6:26 pm

What started as what I think was an honest post; contrary to Rex Hammock who thinks it was more calculated or Fred Wilson a VC with a vested interest in anything Web 2.0 who calls the post linkbait, Jason Calacanis declared Facebook bankruptcy.
The exchange that followed this original post though is far more indicative of the bubble [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Hype, Internet | Comments (13)

Download and Member counts are bull

July 28, 2007 – 11:53 am

Whoopee .. Firefox has ‘x’ million downloads, Facebook has ‘y’ number of addicts … err … members and Windows will have an installed base nearing a billion.
What a load of marketing crap and if you don’t think so just look at your own computer and your own browser history. How many programs have you [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Hype, Internet, Software | Comments (1)

Identity theft done the social network way

July 27, 2007 – 1:19 pm

With the rapid proliferation of social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Pownce we are also seeing the real development of individuals as brands that are open to being marketable commodities. In the era of social networks the openness of putting your real name out there is becoming more fashionable than using some l337 nickname.
What happens [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Security | Comments (1)