Compare and Contrast: Mowser and Mippin’s Variable Fortunes

Russ Beattie, head of Mowser, shut up shop on the venture this week, and placed the content re-aggreator into the mythical Deadpool.
But the traffic never showed up, and what did show up was of questionable quality at best. (Easily 80% of Mowser’s traffic has been related to porn). Maybe that means that the service sucked […]

Good News! PodCamp Boston Charging $50 A Head

News from Penn and Brogan that the upcoming Podcamp Boston (July 19-20) will be charging attendees $50 per head.
Do I agree with the decision? As someone who has organised big events, rationally I do. Attendance at any conference should be worth something, and $50 seems about right as a ‘token’ payment given that a good […]

Twitter For Sale on Ebay: One Careful User Only

Andrew Baron has decided to sell his Twitter account to the highest bidder (hat tip to Chris Brogan for the info). On offer through Ebay are his account, login and his 1387 followers. Bidding is currently just under $500, which works out at around 30 cents (14p) per user.

Baron’s Ebay Auction

Now, putting aside the person […]

Not Too Simple A Task, Please, Google

If Google are to launch a To-Do list (as reported via an eager TechCrunch reader) then I really do hope they make it as simple as possible… but with one caveat. Have some sort of folder/labels arrangement in the same way as Gmail.
The reason for this is because to make a good To-Do list application […]

TPN Rock Live - Streaming and Podcasting Together

One of the rules I have when I do my music show podcasts is that I always do it live. No skipping through the music tracks I’m playing. After all if they don’t hold my attention, how can I expect them to hold the attention of the listeners. The ability to go live, against the […]

Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter

Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that:
“I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.”
Stanley Kubrick
pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke.
So what did Kubrick know […]

The Next Big Thing After Twitter? Moo.com

One of the questions that was raised before this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival was which (if any) product would rise to prominence in the heat of the Texan spring. The simple answer, now we’re all home, seems to be that the next Twitter is… Twitter.
While a number of other services did pop […]

Flickring at 25fps - Video Crashes the Still Party

Techcrunch is reporting (and demoing) Flickr Video. Short summary; Pro users have the ability to upload a video into their account, as long as they are under 90 seconds and 150 mb.
I’ve not played around with it yet, but I’m skeptical that the Flickr community actually want this. I have to assume the Flickr team […]

Obligatory “I’ve Upgraded Wordpress” Post

…and I’m checking all the outbound stuff now Wordpress 2.5 is here. Nothing more to see here, move along.

Tweetstats: Can You Tell When I Travel?

Tweetstats is a nice service, just punch in your Twitter username and you get back a mess of stats on what you’ve been up to. I’m sure that we’ll get people pouring over high profile people and extract some Columbo-esque detective work. So let’s start with my monthlies. Can you tell when I travel to […]

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