Archive for June, 2007

Digg-founder Kevin Roses’s new IM/whatever service is called “Pownce.” Wonder where the name came front? Try IM/presence tool Pidgin (which isn’t new) which lets you “pounce” on friends who come online. Found Pidgin via the blog of Shankar Ganesh who highlights its presence… »

There’s a bunch of people that - if you know them - can save you bales of time, money, and hassle. These are electricians, mechanics, roofers, painters, etc. - basically all of the trades that cost an arm and a leg through a contractor, but that can be paid with cash and a case… »

A friend sent me this story today from the Falcon Research Group: they’re using solar powered, GPS locator bands to track migrating Peregrine Falcons. The bands report in by satellite every 10 days - that location is automatically publicized with a nice Google Map on each bird’s tracking page.
Its a very Web 3.0 application -… »

Gumiyo lets you post classifieds from your mobile/cell. Edgeio - Michael Arrington’s hyped “edge aggregating” classifieds site started as a blog-listing aggregator, but now appears to be an awkward mix everything-aggregator in the style of Oodle and traditional classified site in the style of Craiglist.
Anyway, a recent press release announced that these two companies are… »

SpringWise on Craigslist Meets YouTube at RealPeopleRealStuff - will video classifieds take off for anything other than houses? Speaking of which, why aren’t their video classifieds for houses?
Janet Johnson discusses Michael O’Connor-Clark discussing lack of portability of social network profiles. Interesting stuff - perhaps an extension of APML is in order…
Janet Johnson double header -… »

I’m running out the door to a hair cut, but I wanted to share my thought: Pownce looks like an evolved version of GMail that completely blurs the boundaries between email and… »

I’ve run across two leaderboard banners over the last few days that are so bad as to justify a post.
1. Trailfire.com

Trailfire is apparently some sort of discovery service like StumbleUpon that requires a browser plugin. I didn’t find that out from the banner though. All that does is create vague associations with fire departments (hydrant… »

The Wired Jester: 5 ways to get through writer’s block.
Rob Hyndman: Lawyer ranking service Avvo gets sued — by lawyers.
Gino Cosme: Get ready for Christmas ‘07.
WebWorkerDaily: Three location-based social networks you should check… »

DNHour.com is a community driven news site for the SEO domain name industry. IMHO this is a great vertical to target - the domain industry (and somewhat-related SEO industry) has a very high noise-to-signal ratio, and a good community (and algorithm) would go a long way to sorting some of the wheat from the chaff…. »

Shut up about the iPhone… »