Archive for November, 2004

hi5Jack-in-the-Box

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

It’s Dec. 1 2004 and hi5 is running banners ads from Jack in the Box.
Tell me I’m crazy lord, but I’ve convinced a company to pay us to blog about them.
Time stamp/date…..
Ross Mayfield took my offer for him to ‘break away’ to heart. He now says:
“So what happens if I get lazy and don’t […]

How ’bout one elegant namespace?

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Dave responds….. My responses below…. in a whisper…..

Marc Canter responded to my crucifix post, with a list of metadata he’d like to see included with podcasts. It’s interesting that some of the data he asks for is already defined by the RSS 2.0 spec.
For example, “What is the podcast about?” can be handled […]

Hey Ross! You can blog anything you want about Marqui and we won’t fire you

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

That’s the point.
Integrity. We WANT to know what you think. We’ll PAY you for it. We’d much rather hire humans to think that pay for a graphic on a page.
That’s the difference between a blogger and a ad. Bloggers can speak back.
Here’s what Ross wrote (in his Linkorama - so sorry, […]

Thanks Dave for the opportunity of being calm and careful

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Who is on the podcast? - participants
What is the podcast about? - subject(s)
What keywords (or tags) could be associated with this podcast? - topics
When was this podcast recorded? - time/date
What categories could you put this podcast into? - index
Length? - time
I think that’ll do for now.
Eventually you should put in details on the content - […]

How to build infrastructure for media

Monday, November 29th, 2004

The recent CNet article on video search highlights my complaints about podcasting.
Google is going out and promoting a new way to find video - first on the web, and then eventually right off of broadcasters and cable media provider’s hard drives.
First things first - you gotta index these media clips - with yup you guessed […]

Loic can now afford…..

Monday, November 29th, 2004

…what? A nice bottle of wine?
$100 will buy a nice bottle of wine, but no pate or caviar.
But at least Loic’s experiment in being a blogger will yield him reams of pertinent market research info.
Here is Loic’s post….

A little bit more than $100 for the few commercial links on the right side. Not much but […]

Stowe Boyd takes another swing at our “Pay Bloggers to Blog” program

Monday, November 29th, 2004

I won’t repost the whole thing here but take a look at what Stowe Boyd has to say - now.
He reacts to what Robin Good - one of our bloggers - was saying with:

That aspect of the Marqui deal is what unnerves me about it. A blogger (notwithstanding the disclosure of the relationship) […]

Product blogs for support

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

Jeremy Zawodny points to this blog - which is done by Gary Petersen. He works for Maytag and he worked on the team that did the SkyBox product line of smart appliances.
They use blogs to support people.
I bet Mitch Ratcliffe and the head lemur would dig this. And Phil Windley - too.
Hell I […]

Scoble starts to grok Laszlo

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

Though I hooked him up with David Temkin during the summer, it took Scoble a while to grok Laszlo.
Just think - Avalon - now.
With Laszlo open source - and their IBM deal (Eclipse is an IDE for Laszlo now) - they’re poised to take off in 2005.
I know!
Let’s create some coolio open source thingies with […]

http://feedster.tv/

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

I’ve been wondering when something like this would appear.
Congrats to Scott and Scott and thanks to Jay for the pointer.
Here’s Jay Dedman’s post…..

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Right now, the only way to watch videoblogs is to go to each individual blog and watch each individual video.As of November […]