“It amazes me that people actually talk to Loren Feldman’ s puppet and treat it like a real interview. Example above: this interview with Kevin Rose starts off innocently enough, but goes down hill from there. The only real news value in the story is that Digg’ s still working on that recommendation feature. The high entertainment [...]”
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Archive for May, 2008
The Puppet Interviews Digg’s Kevin Rose
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008“Only two days ago the contact messaging application Twitter suffered another bout of downtime, leaving some users frustrated and others asking why the platform continues to suffer problems. I have recently spoken to an individual who is familiar with the technical problems at Twitter as well as the challenges that lay ahead for the startup. [...]”
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Has Digg Changed Its 24-Hour Policy?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008“As all Digg regulars (read: fanatics who spend most of their day digging and submitting stories. Yes, that includes me) know, stories in Digg’ s upcoming sections have a 24 hour expiration time; if a story is older than one day, and it hasn’ t reached popular status, it is removed from the upcoming section, never to [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Has Digg Changed Its 24-Hour Policy?”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/22/has-digg-changed-its-24-hour-policy/” });”
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How happy is Iceland?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008“Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live…Iceland, the block of sub-Arctic lava to which these statistics apply, tops…”
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The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008“Everyone has an opinion on today’ s move by Microsoft to shake things up in the search space with their new Live Search Cashback product that shifts search advertising from cost-per-click (CPC) to cost-per-action (CPA) and give a lot of the revenue back to users. Most are negative. Some excessively so. After hearing Bill Gates give [...]”
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Microsoft To Offer Cash Back To Search Engine Users In Effort To Fight Google
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008“Microsoft will announce a new search advertising model tomorrow at the Advance08 Conference in Bellvue, Washington, we’ ve learned from sources with knowledge of the new offering. The core of the new service will be a new set of 18 new vertical search offerings that will give users cash back on any purchases made from advertisers [...]”
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Last.fm Gives Subscribers First Taste of New Features
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008“The folks at popular music community Last.fm have decided to share the bleeding edge features with the most loyal users: their subscribers. If you’ re a paying costumer, head on here to join the beta program, and experience the upcoming stuff before others do. As far as the features in this beta go, Last.fm has got [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Last.fm Gives Subscribers First Taste of New Features”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/21/lastfm-gives-subscribers-first-taste-of-new-features/” });”
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Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008“Their words, not mine. I’ ve mostly stopped bothering to post when Twitter is down like it is now and like it was yesterday (honestly, it’ s news when they keep the site live for 24 hours at this point). But, seriously, they need to get their act together. It’ s past embarrassing. Rumor is they’ ve closed their big [...]”
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Summize Gets Distribution Deal with HuffPo; Twitter’s Path to Mainstream?
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008“Summize, the former review aggregation site that has since shifted focus to Twitter search, has signed an interesting distribution deal with The Huffinton Post that may foretell the future direction of the company. Starting today, every tag page on HuffPo features realtime conversation search of the topic of that respective tag. So, if [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Summize Gets Distribution Deal with HuffPo; Twitter’ s Path to Mainstream?”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/summize-huffington-post/” });”
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Twitter Is Down (Again): Mashable Asks (Again), “What Are You Doing?”
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008“Following outages last night that Mark blamed on the Democrats, Twitter has gone down again this afternoon. I’ ve been noticing the outages for at least an hour, but I’ ve seen other reports suggesting that it has been down longer. In a cheap attempt to get a high comment count, Mashable looks to fill [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twitter Is Down (Again): Mashable Asks (Again), What Are You Doing? “, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/twitter-is-down-again/” });”
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