Selling Your Online Soul
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch reported a Digg user account being sold on eBay.
Apparently even your identity and popularity can be sold on eBay these days.
A couple interesting things to note about this sale. The current bid is $325. But, the bid seems to be falsely driven up by a brand spanking new eBay [...]
HitTail is a hit for web writers
I stumbled on a neat new web tool today (I would provide the source, but I can’t find it now, sorry). The new tool is HitTail. They track the ways readers find your website. Specifically, they track the keyword phrases that the reader typed into the search engine that lead them to [...]
Should Traditional Online Media Shake Hands With Web2.0
Reddit recently add sub domains for Slate and The New York Times. So far, Slate seems to be quite a bit more popular if the number of votes is any indication. It sounds like Reddit is trying to demonstrate to potential buyers how much they can help increase traffic. Or maybe one [...]
Monetize Netscape and Pay The Users
There is a big stink going on right not because Jason Calacanis of Netscape is offering to pay top submitters at competing social networking sites.
Kent Newsome says that he thinks “the idea of paying a bunch of people to social bookmark on Netscape … is nutty” but concedes that Jason has made a lot of [...]
My evil days are done
For some reason I got swept up recently with the Digg and Reddit social bookmarking sites. The lure of thousands of people digging what I have to say got the better of me and I started submitting some of my own stories. Lame.
I know that there is no money to be gained from [...]
Monetize the Internet
When I go to somebody’s blog and see adsense or any other type of advertising, I barely notice. I’m starting to get disturbed when I see it on service sites. Even more disturbing are service sites that don’t have any way of earning any money.
Having no income stream on a service site tells [...]
4 Reasons I Can’t Get Away From Bloglines
I’ve had my Bloglines account for a while now. Whenever I hear of a new aggregator, I always go sign up and try it out for a little bit. So far, I haven’t found one that I like better the Bloglines.
1) Bloglines is quick. Clicking on anything and everything happens fast enough [...]