Archive for November, 2007

Finding Dulcinea is a freshly launched Mahalo clone that’s labelled itself “librarian of the internet.” How much of a clone, you ask? How about this quote from their PR Newswire release:
“A recent survey showed that 85 percent of all search queries fail; the user tries and tries again, but eventually succumbs to search-engine fatigue,” said… »

Over thanksgiving weekend, Scott Adams blogged that despite the great artistic satisfaction he derived from uncensored blogging, he felt he was alienating his core Dilbert audience - not growing it. So: he’s not going to blog controversially anymore.
Well. That sucks. Adam’s shit-disturbing “what-if” posts and the comments that followed were a highlight of many a… »

Dave Winer is talking elitism again, suggesting that he’d like a digg-clone with 25, 100, or 1000 members comprised of those who he considers worthy.
First observation: FARK is essentially a hybrid between Winer’s vision and Digg. The FARK elite are the mods who have the power to “greenlight” a submission from TotalFark and push it… »

Want to know what the tech blogosphere has said about Windows Vista in the past week? Click here to have a look.
TechWatching now surfaces the indexes that it uses for meme-tracking as a searchable database. Some compartive analysis:

Its very vertical. This searches only those blogs that TechWatching indexes - about 225 as of this writing…. »

Wow - Yahoo is adding another layer to their insane social lack-of-strategy - a meebo-like service called MyM, story broken by Valleywag.
The Wag points out that Yahoo! already has a crowded, disjointed social plate, with overlapping and competing networks in the form of 360 (soon to be decommissioned), Mash, Flickr, Upcoming, Delicious, Mail, etc. Q:… »

Happy Thanksgiving, American friends & readers! Just another two days at the office up here.
On the positive side: I think the main RSS feed out of techwatching is now fixed such that you won’t get any more deal links in your readers. (fingers crossed) Next up - tag search and tag-specific rss feeds. Good times!
Anyway,… »

I’m going to be out of the loop until Wednesday. I’ve got a horrible flu bug, and expect to be comatose for the duration. See you in a few… »

A $35M loss is apparently all it takes to bring down a company with billions in revenue and thousands of physical locations, according to CNET’s Don Reisinger. Its a good thing Don doesn’t do automotive journalism; given the way Ford and the General have survived years of losses of much greater magnitude in the face… »

The WSJ is reporting that Google is set to announce its GPhone plans Monday (Nov. 5), announcing partnerships with T-Mob and Sprint initially. God willing, that will push bloody Facebook and OpenSocial off of TechMeme for a few days.
So - what does a GPhone mean to me?
Familiar Business Model: I’m assuming that the GPhone will… »

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) kicked off last night; I managed to bang out 1121 words in a half-stupified, slumping-over-drowsy state - no small accomplishment, let me tell you. For those not in the know, NaNoWriMo is a participatory competition: anyone can enter, and everyone who can write 50,000 words in the month of November… »