I learned about Gooruze, a new social network for online marketers, from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim blog. Andy is partnering with this venture and the public launch of the site was earlier this week. It is such a good idea initially, it’s like the incredibly useful and addictive Sphinn (Danny Sullivan’s Digg style news site for marketers) but one step beyond and towards the FaceBook model.
So I jumped right on board when I… Read More
So obviously recent events has me thinking more about Mahalo and their proposed model of organizing information. It’s spectacularly flawed not just in scalability, but in it’s core concept. Consider the following:
With the Mahalo model a given result is created by an editor. It is up to that editor, or group of editors, to be the sole decision maker in what businesses get exposure. You have to wonder how they will make this decision or gather their pool of… Read More
So this series of Scoble videos are making the blog rounds and well, Scoble pretty much caught a nasty case of foot-in-mouth disease if you ask me, brought on by a nasty Calcanis infection. Apparently Mahalo is going to end Google in 4 years (as well as Yahoo! and MSN) and SEO is entirely devoted to spamming the engines.
Wow, now I haven’t seen that level of reckless ignorance since, well, earlier today when Michael Vick said… Read More
The Digg Effect, Getting Dugg, Diggination. No other news article discovery service to date has quite had the strong broad appeal of Digg. People have coined specific phrases to characterize the impact it can have on getting noticed.. or wreaking havoc on servers. What the web has done for getting content published, sites like Digg have done for getting published works read en masse.
The short answer for how Digg works is a short description and title are submitted for… Read More
Everyone is giving Will Ferrell kudos for embracing viral video with his short The Landlord, but honestly it looks like whoever is behind this from technical/marketing standpoint has missed the boat entirely. When you go to the originating site the video is slow and choppy at times, a poor enough experience that I just left after a short bit. They are well aware of this, the top of the page is emblazoned with the following message: “Way too… Read More
