Posted by mark.
Jul
18
Posted by mark.
TW sent me this piece of web marketing gold…
The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting. Building blog content to get traffic from Digg, Reddit, delicious, etc.
Jul
18
Posted by mark.
A friend in the UK sent me this. The number of searches for ‘facebook’ in the UK as just overtaken the number of searches for ‘myspace’. This has a history of being an excellent predictor and it’s showing that myspace is going to get beaten up by Facebook – at least in the UK market.
Jul
18
Posted by mark.
I found this awesome vid on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It’s a panel session with Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com
and James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com and a few others. Markus Frind is my personal hero and much of the reason I have an aversion to VC money.
This is more than an hour long, so when you’re done working tonight at 2am, crack a beer and enjoy this:
Jul
17
Posted by mark.
Someone emailed me this morning and in his email sig he has a derivative of what was supposedly an ad by Ernest Shackleton for his 1908 Nimrod Antarctic expedition:
I was intrigued, did a little googling and discovered that the ad seems to be a fake and the first published appearance of the “Men wanted for hazardous journey” ad is in a 1948 book by Julian Watkins “The 100 Greatest Advertisements” – published 40 years after the actual expedition.
Funny how this …
Jul
17
Posted by mark.
I’m at open coffee this morning at Lousa’s Coffee shop in Seattle – here early to get some reading in. Come down if you’re free this morning. There’s going to be an awesome group of entrepreneurs and innovators here from 8:30 until everyone leaves (usually after 10:30).
Jul
17
Posted by mark.
I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails.
I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better than Perl. Rails may have problems scaling performance. I also know that you can’t hire a Rails developer in Seattle for love or money.
So here are …
Jul
16
Jul
16
Posted by mark.
I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment.
Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have to worry about my servers having to provide that CPU and memory.
I found myself moving processing to the client side where possible.
[Don’t worry, we torture our …
Jul
16
Posted by mark.
Since I relaunched my blog on Saturday I’ve had 432 page views. So if I’d been really smart and put AdSense on the blog…
At 0.30 CPC
with a 2% Click thru rate
I’d have earned a grand total of $2.59.
Almost the price of a latte.
UPDATE: I installed adsense. My goal: to earn one latte every 2 days, which is about how often I support the local coffee shop.
Google don’t want to do any evil, but they also don’t like free speech …
Jul
16
Posted by mark.
In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business.
Archive.org
One of my favorites! Use archive.org to see how your competitors website evolved from the early days until now. If they have a robots.txt blocking iarchive (archive.org’s web crawler) then you’re …