Quick, what’s the second-stickiest site on the Web, has 25 million members worldwide, and gets 2.2 billion pageviews per month? (more…)
Wikis have been an interesting form of community - they always seem to hover between accomplishment and anarchy. The recent blowup at Wikipedia was an example of the potential fallibility of wikis; a user “jokingly” inserted a false reference about another individual, and the entry remained in the online ...
Most web marketers have a LOT of information about their customers. Web analytics are extemely powerful, and give quantitative marketers far more data than what is available from traditional broadcast media. But what if you could get inside the heads of your customers, and see what’s happening at ...
We’ve known for a while that what you say online can get you fired - apparently, it can get you convicted, too. In this case, a teen confessed in his blog to being to blame for a fatal accident. Despite his later removing the entry, the end result ...
It may seem strange to talk about the death of DVDs even as their sales are growing and higher capacity formats are fighting for market share, but if you are in the movie rental business you really have to think about what will happen when people have sufficient bandwidth to ...
In ยป Reverse Greenmail: Google, AOL, and Carl Icahn, I suggested that Time Warner shareholder and long-time corporate raider Carl Icahn might have written the script for extracting a $1-billion greenmail investment from Google. Apparently, Icahn is not happy. No doubt from his standpoint as a big shareholder ...
Years ago, the practice of greenmail became popular. A corporate raider would buy a small minority stake in a public company, make lots of noise about tender offers and replacing management, and allow his shares to be repurchased by the firm for a handsome premium. The deal would ...
As reported by MSN.com in Police blotter: Nude ‘profile’ yields Yahoo suit, Yahoo won a case in which the plaintiff had harassing information posted about her. The woman’s ex-boyfriend posted nude photos of her and her actual contact information in a Yahoo member profile, and conversed with other Yahoo ...
A few weeks ago, the web’s most popular webmaster and SEO forum, Webmasterworld.com, made an abrupt and complete exit from Google’s search index after owner Brett Tabke implemented a set of measures to keep robots and spiders from capturing the site’s content. One of these measures included a ban ...
In a discussion at TechRepublic, Wardriving - Legal or not?, IT pros debate the legality and ethics of “wardriving”. The practice involves looking for an open wireless access point, sometimes by driving around in a car with a wireless laptop computer. (more…)
