Digg This As the web 2.0 hype continues to become ever more frothy, it becomes more and more obvious that abusing the inherent ‘social goodness’ is not really that difficult. To take a step back, the big trust in social sites is that most users are good, and the few that are bad, the good users can easily police them. Not exactly the same, but even Larry Page from Google believed that most users are good. iBegin’s philosophy (point #2) clearly spells out that users are trusted to deal with the minority that are spammers. And (getting to the point now), Digg operates under the premise that if a story Read more »

Anyone remember the ol’ Site Finder Service from Verisign? Claiming that it was for the benefit of normal end users, it basically wildcarded *.com and threw up a page full of ads when a domain did not exist. Now, ads on domains are a very large business. We won’t go into details here, but estimates are that this industry (PPC ads on a domain) generate roughly 10-15% of all search revenue for Google and Yahoo. That ain’t no chump change. Recently, Cameroon(the country) followed suit. There are people, who instead of typing Google.com, accidentally type in Google.cm. Just a few weeks ago, they would throw out of a ‘cannot find Read more »

The Web 2.0 hype machine is in full swing. YouTube is supposedly worth a billion dollars. Fantastic websites are popping up left and right. And for many, you are just a registration away from the gloriousness of social nirvana. And yet while these massive valuations and VC investment numbers fly around, it seems like finding decent programmers is still a challenge. I remember reading a gripe about this on the last page of Business 2.0 before, but it made sort of sense. It was extended to large corporations such as UPS and FedEx, so stuck in their corporate ways and accounting mannerisms that the obviousness of this would be lost Read more »

With the recent news that FireFox has reached a 16% share in the browser market. Blog Flux, a blog services site, has published the data that has been gathered by their MapStats program. WIth over 20 million unique visitors tracked every month, 25% of these people are using FireFox. The really interesting thing is that all the visitors being tracked are purely blog readers. The first statistic that I wanted to take a gander at would be browser usage. For October 2005 FireFox had a 25% usage, as did it for June 2006. While it did ebb a bit (dropping as low as 23%), it seems to be relatively stable. Read more »

Just running a quick poll to see what the users here would like to see more content on. Vote now! Thanks :) Take the poll Free Poll by Blog Flux Read more »

Do you ever get bored while doing your business in the bathroom? Well, be bored no longer. There now is a stereo dock with speakers for the iPod that also doubles as a tissue holder. Enter the bathroom, place your iPod on the dock, and waste away hours upon hours listening to music and just having plain ol’ good fashioned fun. via: bLavish Read more »

Digg is 99% fantastic. Fast furious news, troll comments, sites being hammered to oblivion – its Slashdot for the masses! So while I was on the site today, I noticed two frontpage diggs for A List Apart. Also a wonderful site, it piqued my interest how both were submitted by Spit1ire. So I did some digging of mine own (pun intended). So opening the two pages in separate tabs, I scrolled down to the bottom. The first story looked like this: The second story looked like this: Lo and behold, the first sixteen diggs for each story were identical! If we remove bribera from one of them, the first nineteen Read more »

I just realized that there is no button for people to link to us with, so I used a button maker and created one. Please link to us if you like our site to help spread the word. Thanks! Read more »

Well, we should be able to post again. We moved to a new server and had a few problems, but everything should be back to normal again! :) Read more »