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Lol @ all you folks wanting a google wave invite. I've had it for ages and it's not that good. You're not missing much right now
Why do you think it isn't that good?
- Marc van Waardenburg
listening to "Editors - Papillon" - http://blip.fm/~dct2k
'Strong Song'
- Marc van Waardenburg
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The 1,026 geekiest Twitterers (for #FollowFriday) - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/the-102...
Wai Seto, Mark Harai, Head Ov Metal and 34 other people liked this
It's interesting to see the actual data presented of what I actually find useful. That said, I like following a lot of people who are really low on this list.
- Robert Scoble
from Posterous
for true geekieness it really only should have been 1024.
- Shawn McCollum
Shawn: true! I love how fast Posterous gets here, by the way. Within microseconds.
- Robert Scoble
+1 4 shawn :)
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
That's a good use of your 'favs' data, Robert. And interesting that you say that the number of favs does not always indicate how much you like following someone - so there's something more going on there?
- WorldofHiglet
flattered to be in the top few :)
- Zee.
WorldofHiglet: some people I just like to follow their lives and see the small things going on with them like birthdays, kids, etc, but those things would never get faved.
- Robert Scoble
Sweet I made the cut...err, I'm still having trouble saying that word http://friendfeed.com/krynsky...
- Mark Krynsky
That's what I meant, Robert. It's not all about value in terms of hard-core information. The 'social' side to social media is still important.
- WorldofHiglet
This is cool, I didn't know I'd been "favorited". I feel so honored. <blush>
- RobinDotNet
Ooo....quite near the top! :)
- Steve Farnworth
I'm in too ;)
- Marc van Waardenburg
Wow, you really like TechCrunch and Arrington!
- RobinDotNet
Seems to be having problems showing the actual tweets. Has Robert Scoble brought down favstar??
- RobinDotNet
I've been getting the same RoR message on my application. 500 server error! Took me about 2 hours to solve mine!
- Steve Farnworth
Interesting, Robert gives himself 2 favs.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I saw that - funny :) Hey I've got 1 wooo hooo!
- Susan Beebe
None here (a little disappointed I'm not a top 1,000 geek) but Twitter was never my true home. ;-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
i'm happy to be bubbling near the bottom.
- michael sean wright
Robert is still not following me, so I won't be there :(
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
What is up that Mahendra? You should totally be in the mix man!
- Joe
Come on Robert - what about Mahendra here?
- Joe
Joe: Robert is yet to discover me it seems :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Wow - I am speechless.
- Joe
I wish there was a way to get someone's favorites natively in your Twitter stream (not RSS). With Favstar, you need to visit their site.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Robert surely you can rectify this oversight.
- Joe
Joe: You can speak now. I'm in his stream now. :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I never knew I had an ambassador! Thanks, Joe.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Mahedra: I just didn't know who you were before. Welcome.
- Robert Scoble
Gotta look out for my brother. :) Thanks Robert. Mahedra would be in the top 50 geeks.
- Joe
and I mean that in the best way possible. :)
- Joe
Robert: No issues. We've interacted only briefly before. Last I remember: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
No doubt about TechCrunch.They are real twitter geeks.
- goldberg_sizzles
There are at least 2^10 people more geeky than me, so that means I can be no better than an 11th rank geek. Bummer, I thought I was a 9th rank geek, 10th at minimum.
- DGentry
How can I view what tweets were fav'd? I'm glad I made the list! :) The only problem with having so many favorite tweets though is now when I click the "more" button they won't load. :(
- Garin Kilpatrick
Clay Shirky: human empowerment through social media extension. An eye opener! Video on TED.com #yam - http://www.ted.com/talks...
"human empowerment through media extension"
- Marc van Waardenburg
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Beer Bikes may be Outlawed in Amsterdam - http://www.inquisitr.com/26007...
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Grappig dat je dat als A'dammer via een australisch blog te weten komt.
- Ton Zijp
from Bookmarklet
Gistermiddag was er eentje in Utrecht die stopte voor de Bijenkorf en daar een bus en een ambulance enige tijd op wist te houden...aso's.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
Interesting short talk (8min)
- Marc van Waardenburg
from Bookmarklet
The Garden Of Tweetdom - http://www.slideshare.net/TheKais...
LOL!
- Marc van Waardenburg
from Bookmarklet
Springtime in Neede, NL
This photo taken with a G1 phone cam, from behind a window
- Marc van Waardenburg
Great news. Our loan was approved and has been sent to the escrow company. We are going to be home owners! Can't believe it!
Alex Scoble, asiriusgeek, MVB (Grinch of FF) and 3 other people liked this
Congratulations
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Congratulations! That's terrific news.
- Karoli
Congrats, but your loan approval will have been a small moment of joy. The rest of the time you'll owe someone and will have to pay back sometime.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Congrats! First Ms. Strange now you.
- Mlibrarianus
Congrats! and thank you for your help.
- amarquart
I love being inspired time and again by the new TED 2009 talks being published these days - http://www.ted.com/index...
Yes, there is the ted-2009 room http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Marc van Waardenburg
"Is the Relational Database Doomed?" (ReadWriteWeb) - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
i wouldn't think so...there's a huge installed base to be maintained and the logic in relational is so ... logical ;-)
- Marc van Waardenburg
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Socialcast - http://www.socialcast.com/
A kind of FriendFeed for business, companies
- Marc van Waardenburg
listening to "pastorale - ramses shaffy - http://blip.fm/~20e78
passionate dutch song - pastorale – ramses shaffy & liesbeth list
- Marc van Waardenburg
from Blip.fm
What is all the concern over battery life on the G1? How many hours is everyone getting, and how would you classify your usage? How does your battery life experience of the G1 compare to other phones you've have?
Daniel Rowley, Nicholas James, Tyson Key and 3 other people liked this
I consider myself a medium user, and I've gotten 26 hours out of a single charge before it shuts itself off. Today, I talked on the phone for 80 minutes in one call and don't consider the drop in battery to be beyond what I'd expect (it was at 60% at the end of the call, but I didn't make note of it before I started the call, but that's around what it usually is at that time of day), and I bet I won't need to charge it for another 12 hours. I am using Power Manager.
- Andy Bakun
Compared to the Samsung A900 I had previously, the Android battery life is awesome. I could barely get 10 hours of on-time out of the A900, even if I never made call on it.
- Andy Bakun
I usually get 2-3 days from a charge, but I just randomly check my email. I think the trick is to use Power Manager to disable stuff you don't need and to disable auto-sync for everything. It's easy and fast enough for me to hit refresh to get my email.
- John μller
Yeah, I did let it run down twice before charging it again when I first got it. It's 2009, not knowing you should do that with a new battery is like not knowing that you should shake orange juice before you drink it.
- Andy Bakun
Does running down the battery really change anything with the battery or does it just calibrate the charge-state-meter? In other words, is it just for cosmetic reasons? (I've always been bad with batteries, but why can't they just do this at the factory?)
- John μller
I use 3d/edge fairly heavy through the day, on breaks, lunch, etc.. and have enough battery life to run on wifi through the night, but that is about all I get.. one full day of moderate to heavy usage. I use it more as a computer than a phone. Not horrible, but it would be nice to not have to remember to charge every single night.
- Tim Hoeck
I only have my G1 a couple of days now, but I already see that using the Power Manager app is really benificial in saving battery power. Having 100% at 9 o'clock this morning, using the G1 a lot of times during the day (downloading and running apps over GPRS and WiFi, Twittering et cetera), 12 hours later I still have 63% power left. I think I should be able to do max 2 days with one charge. My previous model was a SE K800i, recharged that on average 2 times a week.
- Marc van Waardenburg
a couple of weeks ago, i calibrate the battery by letting the phone run down to 0% battery and turn itself off, and charged it for 5 or 6 hours (turned off). and try it after 2 days again, it should calibrate and condition the battery life.
- Pınar Yanardağ
Good morning real-time web fans. This should go to Twitter and Facebook thanks to Twhirl's new Ping.fm feature.
Patrick Driscoll, Nicholas James, Jen and 6 other people liked this
@Robert Scoble the bad thing about that morning message was that it was then posted twice on FriendFeed :P
- Qbat
that's why i don't let twitter feed back to friendfeed
- Marc van Waardenburg
from twhirl
I need a new Twitter service or ap to go with my new computer. Does this one interrupt my typing? My last one did and it bugged the hell out of me.
- MarkCarras
Good point. How should FF users in general handle the same status update being imported into FF multiple times? In my case Twitter and Identi.ca *and possible Facebook).
- Kevin Whalen
from twhirl
Scoble and Ping.fm... hard to imagine a faster way to bring the internet to a screeching halt... :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
No kidding! @scobleizer should be banned from Ping.fm
- Francine Hardaway
from IM
i love the scoble-flodding-the-web jokes- it never gets old :-D
- Kahlil Lechelt
from twhirl
Blame Scoble. The Internet is going down!
- Robert Scoble
Why must we stop at the Internet? I had a bad day at my non-tech job yesterday...Scoble was blamed. :D
- MarkCarras
Larsen: sorry for the duplication. That should now have been fixed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert is having a fun weekend with family celebrating my 44th birthday on Sunday. Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes!
Iggy Mwangi, Daniel W. Crompton, تنهاترین انجل and 101 other people liked this
Happy Birthday Robert!
- Dave Gambrill
Hey, we continue to celebrate a week apart. My son Doug beat you to 44 in December. I achieve 70 week from Sunday. Enjoying myself over that.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
Tomorrow's your b-day? Happy birthday, Robert!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Happy Birthday Robert! Maybe I should create a FriendFeed room for this? ;)
- Michael Broukhim
Happy Birthday!! Does this mean you're taking the day off?
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
Happy B-day Robert!
- Helen Sventitsky
Have a great birthday weekend! Hope it's geeky and fun! :)
- Daynah
have a good one!!!
- Richard Binhammer
no s#*t ... not only is my birthday the day after yours, I'll also be 44. Happy Birthday!
- Jim: Dead Like FF
Happy Birthday, Robert! I hope you and your family have a great weekend! :-)
- Anna Haro
Happy birthday, Robert! Have a great one! :)
- Dee S.
Good times! Enjoy!
- Josh Haley
Happy Birthday and here's to many more (lifts martini)!
- Susan Dennis
Just turned 44 myself! Happy Bday.
- BEX
Happy Birthday !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
~~~ HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY ROBERT !!! I hope you have a really fun birthday and get lots of cool new toys!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Best wishes on the day! Looks like its gonna be a very decent day in HMB tomorrow! :-)
- Bo Stern
Happy Birthday, Robert!!
- David Cook
Ahh...what to do? Robert said there was no need to wish him a happy b'day, but I do this for others; why should I exclude him? and everyone else is doing it...I know; happy Scoble's birthday, fellow FriendFeeders!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Happy Birthday, Robert!! Hope you enjoy your day and weekend. :)
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Happy birthday.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Happy 44th ... hey we almost have the same birthday :)
- Robert Couture
Happy Birthday! have fun with the family...that's what it's all about.
- Troy Malone
Wow you're 44?! Time is damn good to you!! Happy Birthday and stay unplugged before Maryam drags you to a place with no cell service! ;)
- Mona Nomura
Happy Impending Birthday!
- deusdiabolus
Already 44? Happy Birthday and wish you a webfull of 44th year ;)
- Ozkan Altuner
Happy 44!
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
Happy pre-Birthday, Robert. I wish you many, many more. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Happy Birthday, Robert! So glad you're having fun with your family. Cheers!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Excellent! Happy Birthday Robert. It's already Sunday here :)
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
Happy Birthday Robert!
- Holger Eilhard
Happy birthday
- Duncan Riley
Happy Birthday ^__^
- Nia
Happy Birthday
- Charlie Anzman
Scobleizer, Happy Birthday!
- Mike Fruchter
Many Happy Returns and blessings to you Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Happy Birthday Robert. Hope the coming year is a great one.
- jjprojects
Happy Birthday
- Sharron Field
from twhirl
Happy Birthday
- Kyle
I thought you were 34, have a great day!
- paul mooney
Happy Bornday
- rokhayakebe
Happy Birthday! If you were in Atlanta it would have been a snowy (predicted) birthday, not to mention a kewl place to celebrate in, home to Coca-Cola, CDC, Lockheed Martin and our very own Ted Turner's creation CNN. :-) [edited]
- Moushumi Kabir
Happy 44 !!!
- Rocky
Happy birthday!
- Morton Fox
May I say Best Wishes on your Day...
- bcultral
Happy Birthday, Robert!
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Happy birthday!
- Naser Farzinfar
Happy Birthday!
- mandyvan
Happy Birthday
- Leslie Poston
Happy Bday Robert!
- Kelly Johns
Happy B-Day!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
happy birthday I am offering you a like as present :)
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
happy bday!!
- ::Kristen::
Have a Happy!!!
- Seth Greenblatt
Have the best birthday ever!
- jcunwired
happy bday
- Zafarali
Happy Birthday Robert, Have a Great Weekend!
- Michael Fidler
Happy birthday old man!™
- Larry Kless
Happy Birthday, Robert! Have a great day.
- Andrew Terry
happy bday!
- Zafarali
S dnem Rozhdeniya! (happy b-day!)
- Olga Rasulova
Happy birthday!
- Darren Heydon
You're 44? Herzlichen Glückwunsch Robert!
- Gaby K. Slezák
A happy Birthday to you from old Europe
- Donald Townsend
Congrats to your 44th! You look much younger though! :-)
- Alex
Congrats!
- Alan Kodzasov
Happy birthday :)
- Carolyn Chan
happy bday!
- Zafarali
Happy Birthday!
- Ladybug Heather
Happy Birthday. Great seeing you in Las Vegas.
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Happy Birthday!
- Didi Chanoch
Happy Birthday Robert!
- Nicholas James
Cumpleaños Feliz!
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
Happy Birthday! (isn't it Prager's as well)
- Marcus Beagley
Happy birthday, Robert!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Happy birthday! Thanks for being the real first adopter and showing the rest of us new ways and places to explore.
- Heather
Happy birthday Robert! Keep up the good work your'e doing!
- Marc van Waardenburg
Happy birthday!
- Robert Banghart
Happy Birthday Robert!!! The Queen sends her birthday wishes too :) London, United Kingdom
- Justin Stevens
Happy Birthday Robert (Man, you're just a kid ! :)
- Charlie Anzman
happy birthday
- Travis Parsons
Happy birthday! • From Moscow, Russia
- Alexey Ivanov
Happy birthday Pal!!!!
- Thomas Hawk
Happy birthday.
- Svartling
Happy birthday Robert!
- Martin Bryant
Happy birthday, dude!
- Michael VanDervort
Happy birthday, dear Robert! Happy birthday to you! :)
- Lora Lufark
Many happy returns.
- Mike Lewis
Happy B-Day, Robert.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Happy Birthday, Robert!
- ravi karandeekar
Happy Birthday from the island of Montreal!
- Michael Forian
Happy Birthday to you.
- Marcel Janus
Happy Birthday Robert! Enjoy your day!
- Laura Zickus
Wait. I thought you were 10 years older than me. Then I realized you were 10 years younger!! Now I find out you're my age? I am suddenly hopeful! Yes we 44yr- olds can! .......Hey Robert, seriously, I wish you another 56 healthy years. Happy Birthday! ♫
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Happy Birthday, Robert!!!! :)
- Molly, "sorry"
Happy Birthday! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493...
- glfceo
Happy Birthday Robert.
- Daniel Rowley
Happy Birthday!
- clp
Wishing you a great one Robert. Thanks for all you do for the Internet. I loved your interview with Seth Godin, you 2 were great together.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
@Jeremy Campbell - do you have a link to that interview?
- Peter Warnock
Happy Birthday! Hooray for 1965! (My birthday is still a few weeks away, in March.)
- vicster is...
Scobleizer, time to CELEBRATE-You have so much ahead of you, b/c what's behind you was great!! Thanks for all the great insight!!
- Harold Cabezas
Happy birthday Robert!
- Andrew
Happy Birthday Robert!
- Parth Awasthi
Happy B1rthday Rob3rt
- iSteeve
Happy Christmas Robert! (Didnt wanna say the same thing as everyone else) :)
- Simon Wicks
happy bday robert
- MG Siegler
Happy Bday!!
- Sarah Perez
Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful year until the next :)
- Pilgrim Five
The First Ever Presidential Portrait Taken With a Digital Camera - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
duh
- Marc van Waardenburg
from Bookmarklet
iMob Hits The iPhone: Prepare To Become An Addict - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Mob Wars - a largely text based strategy game that throws users into a virtual underworld of organized crime - has become a Facebook phenomenon, with 2,680,129 monthly active users and monthly revenues rumored to exceed $1 million. The game isn't the first of its kind (in fact, similar text-based games have been around for many years), but it is among the first to go truly mainstream. Now Y Combinator startup Addmired is looking to capitalize on the popularity of Mob Wars and its ilk by developing a new game for the iPhone dubbed iMob Online. And while it would be easy to cast this aside as just another wannabe, the game is actually very well done, sporting a great looking interface with an intuitive menu system, as well as nifty features like GPS functionality and real-time messaging.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Salesforce.com Launches The Service Cloud, A Customer Service SaaS Application - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
These days, when I have technical question, I reach for Google long before customer service. What if customer service could reach for Google? Salesforce.com just launched a new customer service application called Service Cloud. The new application, built on a SaaS model, basically tries to capture the crowdsourced pools of knowledge floating across the internet and use them for commercial customer service. Traditional on-premise contact center technology is disconnected from the experts and knowledge found in the cloud. Yet so many customer service questions are already answered online in forums, Facebook, Google, Amazon, or others. Or the answers are sitting on your personal Instant Messaging history, e-mail history, or corporate intranet. The Service Cloud includes plugins to each of these environments.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Google Axes Dodgeball, Jaiku, Video and More - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
At Google, when it rains, it pours. In the wake of announcing its first round of layoffs this afternoon, Google has released several blog posts detailing the upcoming shutdown of a number of services (compiled here by Danny Sullivan). Included among the upcoming closures are: Google Notebooks, Google Catalogs, Dodgeball, Google Video, Google Mashup Editor, and future development of Jaiku (though the service will live on).
- Marc van Waardenburg
Motionbox Raises $6 Million Series C For Its YouTube Alternative - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Video sharing site Motionbox has just closed a $6 million Series C funding round led by Constellation Ventures, with Canaan Partners and SAS Investors also participating. Alongside the funding, Motionbox is also announcing that its founder and CEO Chris O'Brien will be assuming the role of Chairman of the Board and EVP of Strategy and Corporate Development, with former COO Josh Grotstein taking the reins as CEO. Motionbox is similar to YouTube in that it allows users to upload and share their videos on the web, but it includes a more robust suite of privacy settings that make it better suited for sharing clips with a select group of friends rather than the whole world. The site offers a free version with standard video sharing options, as well as premium memberships that allow users to upload an unlimited number of videos, with no time limit restrictions. Motionbox's site also lets users order their videos on DVD and in paper flipbooks, which can recreate brief scenes.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Facebook Blows A Whopper Of An Opportunity - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Burger King, through their insanely creative advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (see their recent Burger King perfume launch), launches a Facebook application that encourages users to remove Facebook friends. Sacrifice ten of them and you got a free Whopper. 233,906 friends were removed by 82,771 people in less than a week. Facebook is overjoyed, right? What a great example to show the Madison Avenue agencies on how a big brand can get real engagement from users. This is the future of advertising. Or it could have been, if Facebook hadn't shut it down, citing privacy issues:
- Marc van Waardenburg
From The Ad Targeting At Its Finest Department - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Either this is a stock ad and a coincidence or this is a fine example of ad targeting gone wrong. At least it's something to lighten the mood as Steve Jobs takes a break for health reasons.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Pierre Omidyar Is Getting His Ginx On (Co-founder Status Confirmed). - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Pierre Omidyar left eBay long ago to become a billionaire philanthropist and angel investor, but he is taking on an operational role in a new startup called Peer News. It operates a Twitter app called Ginx currently in "private pre-alpha." That means nobody but Pierre and a few pals are supposed to know about it. But Dan Primack at PEHub found an SEC filing indicating that Peer News has raised about $2 million, and it lists Omidyar himself as part of the executive team. He is also an investor. I have been able to confirm separately that Omidyar is indeed a co-founder of the company along with Randy Ching. Peer News is based in Honolulu, where Omidyar lives, and is geared at making it easier for people to share news links through Twitter. Ginx is a news sharing service built on top of Twitter. Ginx uses your Twitter username and password for login credentials. I haven't seen a demo, but you can piece together what it is by seeing how Omidyar is using it on Twitter. Ginx operates as a...
- Marc van Waardenburg
Nostradamical Opens Its Prediction Market. Outlook Hazy. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
We all love to prove that we've been granted the gift of foresight, either through our wealth of knowledge or more fantastical means, like The Force. In the last year or so major websites have been trying to capitalize on this by introducing "prediction markets", which allow readers to make guesses about upcoming events ranging from hot news items to celebrity gossip, and also generally significantly increase page views and engagement. Today sees the public launch of a new prediction site called Nostradamical (named after the well-known seer) which is emphasizing the social nature of making predictions. Users initiate predictions in articles similar to brief blog pots, where they can include videos, photos, and text describing why they think something will happen and why it is important.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Apple After Steve - http://www.crunchgear.com/2009...
Mr. Jobs is taking a well-deserved breather from Apple. We here at CrunchGear hope he gets well soon, and think he's doing the right thing: few jobs are more important than one's own health, and certainly not being the CEO of a company that makes computers and portable music devices. And while Steve is taking care of Steve, Apple can take care of Apple. I think Steve's respite will be a good thing for Apple in the long run.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Steve Jobs Takes Six Month Leave Of Absence From Apple - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Text of email from Steve Jobs to all Apple employees sent earlier today, following up on an earlier public statement he made last month about his health. COO Tim Cook takes over day to day operations of Apple: Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought. In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June. I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain...
- Marc van Waardenburg
HubDub Gets A Series A Round For Its News Gaming Platform - http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009...
News prediction and gaming site Hubdub, which concentrates on US news, has secured $1.2m in a Series A funding from a cohort of UK VCs and angels. The investment gives Scotland-based HubDub a runway of 18-24 months to build up their content partner base. The site itself claims 250,000 unique visitors trading around 100,000 predictions per month, largely around US news items. However to base its future growth on its portal would be a mistake. The real story behind HubDub is it's partner platform which turns any news site or blog into a news prediction market, thus generating many more page impressions than the average news site, which usually gets very fleeting attention. The site now has partners including Reuters, UK newspaper The Independent and the Huffington Post. Main US-based competitor The Industry Standard which launched in February last year, is experiencing lacklustre growth and concentrating on its in-house portal.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Gmail Grew 43 Percent Last Year. AOL Mail And Hotmail Need To Start Worrying. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Google launched Gmail only four years ago, and it is now the fourth most popular e-mail service on the Web after Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, and Windows Live Hotmail. In 2008, it saw some serious growth in the U.S. Google doesn't break out the number of Gmail users, but comScore estimates unique monthly visitors. According to the latest stats, the number of people visiting Gmail grew 43 percent last year to 29.6 million. In contrast, the much more massive Yahoo Mail grew 11 percent to 91.9 million uniques. AOL Mail finished in second place for the year with 46.6 million uniques (plus another 7.2 million visitors to AIM Mail), while Hotmail actually declined 5 percent to 43.5 million. How can Gmail keep growing at such a fast rate, when the other email services seem to be stagnating? Maybe it's because Gmail is evolving at a faster rate.
- Marc van Waardenburg
Dept. Of Bad Ideas: Those Adobe Ads in PDF Documents Just Weren’t Working - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Adobe's experiment with allowing publishers to place contextual ads directly inside PDF documents is coming to an end. The Adobe Labs project was launched just over a year ago in November, 2007. The idea was that out of the billions of PDF documents produced every year, some of them get passed around enough to warrant advertising, especially those produced by traditional print publishers. Adobe teamed up with Yahoo to provide contextual text ads similar to what you would find next to that document if you were reading it online. Hey, inventory is inventory, right? In a note to program participants, Adobe fobs off the failure of the PDF ads on the economy and its need to focus on its core products. But it was simply a bad idea. Trying to turn PDF files into an advertising vehicle was just never going to fly.
- Marc van Waardenburg
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