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Hosting the Carnival of Maryland
Just a word to let you all know that I am hosting this week’s Carnival of Maryland. The Carnival is spearheaded by members of the Maryland Blogger Alliance, a loose confederation of bloggers from Maryland that began as political blogs banded together a few years ago and today represents a much broader cross-section of the…
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The YouTube Video Revolution
It was announced the other day that YouTube would begin serving H.264 video format on all their YouTube videos. This is an announcement that was made in conjunction with Apple regarding video formats for their Apple TV which uses Apple’s Quicktime format. If you’re not familiar with H.264, it is a high definition video encoding…
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The Art of War: Facebook’s Strategic Plan for Ultimate Victory
Have you heard of MySpace? I had, once upon a time. Now, it seems to be off the grid. Facebook on the other hand has been making a progressive march to the sea and is taking no prisoners. In February of 2007, Facebook reported 18M users, up from 7.5M 7 months earlier. (Edited) Toronto claims…
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Video Interview at Mesh
Loren Feldman and I sat down for an interview while at Mesh. Loren is probably my favorite new media guy ever. Says what he thinks and is highly entertaining, if sometimes mildly disturbing. Check out this video with him and I sitting down and talking about b5media, Macs and other stuff. Thanks Loren!
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Five Things MovableType Learned from Bilbo Baggins
Movable Type announced today that Movable Type 4 would be open source. This is obviously a retreat on their move to a closed model back in Movable Type 3. If you recall, MT 3 came under a tremendous amount of fire for moving away from the “free” model and created a side effect of moving…
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Tribute Craigslist Theme for WordPress
At Mesh this week, I had the pleasure of attending Jim Buckmaster’s keynote. Jim is the CEO of Craigslist, a completely user powere company. It is the anti-web 2.0 with no frills websites, no typical business structure, a disdain for meetings, marketing and PR – yet, one of the craziest success stories of the late…
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The Canadian Problem
I’m an American and don’t hide it. Stars and Stripes forever. Whistle Dixie. Etc. But this week was all about Canadians and now that the week is over, I offer my own observations. Mesh Conference was one of the best conferences I’ve ever been to. It may have been the best. Congratulations to Mark, Mat,…
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Technorati Loses Feeds
Has anyone else noticed that the new Technorati doesn’t have search feeds any longer? I mean, I’m open to correction but I certainly can’t find them. And I’m not the only one. It’s actually been a bit of a conversation around Mesh. What’s Technorati thinking? I ask again, is Technorati really the authority if they…
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Pingomatic and Google
Many folks choose to use the Pingomatic to ensure that when the post a blog entry, as many search indexes such as Technorati and Feedburner. however, what I find interesting is that there are a large number of “dead” services in the list of indexes pinged. For instance, Pubsub is listed and they’ve been dead…