We hear a lot of prognostication from the consultants about how business can benefit from social networking, but not as much when it comes to actual businesses that are using it. Jeff Bennett, COO of…
As the election cycle proceeds, I’ve noticed that the level of monologue in supposed discussions has increased to a fever pitch. Take Twitter for example; it seems the chatter is now 20% political. The problem…
For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals. We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.
This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That ought to put to rest the “WordPress doesn’t scale” talk I hear around the net. Wordpress scales just fine for large sites if you set your server up properly:
Yeah, I need some humor today…
In what has become an utterly bizarre turn of the tables, NameMedia Inc. has bought Reel-time.com – the site I have been working with since 1995 or 1996 as managing editor, head geek and general…
Okay, I promise to go Twitter free next week, but for now, an interesting observation… Yesterday, Twitter went down for about 3 hours. The general experience provoked a few thoughts. Firstly, I thought of the…
As readers know, I’ve been testing Twitter. It’s fun, but for me the jury is still out. One of the things I’m noticing is the preponderance of New Media Gurus inhabiting Twitter. And inevitably, many…
I’ve been saying for over a year that there is a limit to the places I want to network with people, and I’m going to go one step further right now: there are a whole…
Mukund Mohan had a great post hitting on the comment by Jason Calacanis: “An absolute idiot with 10-20M users can make a ton of money. So, get to tens of millions of users and forget…
I’ve had a couple sites go live this week – first, some niche websites with NameMedia, Hotcars.com and Dreamwheels.com as well as Cats.com (I didn’t work as much on that one, it was in the…