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31 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Rich Pearson published a great article on the Attributor's blog about the proliferation of content online. The sticky fact is that Google/DoubleClick serves ads to more than 2 billion unique visitors. The writer cross-compares this data with the figure below: Click here to read the entire blog post
28 Mar This post is from from my other blog here RateItAll, the Website that lets you rate everything in the whole universe, has been doing its first steps in the world of platform interoperability. The company started by developing a compatibility testing tool to offer RIAers (RateItAllers) a fun and meaningful way to interact among each others.I'm not an addict user of the service, but I passed the technology compatibility test, and was 80% similar to Lawrence Coburn. Once the compatibility tests were up and running, RateItAll opened the valves between different social platforms. When you are on Facebook, it is now possible to share a test with a buddy ... Click here to read the entire blog post
26 Mar This post is from from my other blog here The line between the online and offline persona isn't clear. This discussion started with the Vino Diaries video featuring Katie Paine. I expressed the idea that online engagement was tricky to measure because there is no rule that states that online behavior = offline behavior. Today, Bill Paarlberg from the Measurementstandard blog reacted to my comments, by providing a graph on Youtube's activity that shows each candidates popularity on a video and rank basis. As I always say, Youtube is a spammy place. It is full of obscure users.My point - this actually was the subject of my bachelor degree's ... Click here to read the entire blog post
26 Mar This post is from from my other blog here I was kind of surprised this morning to read this news. Here is the main motivation behind such an early acquisition explained by Kulveer Taggar:Live Current, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
25 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Since January 2008, HyveUp has produced 14 video interviews that have generated 1806 views. We're pretty happy on the HyveUp's side simply because all the numbers show growth. It feels good to see uprightness at such an early stage of development.On this graph, we observe the views trend per videos and per month. Obviously, when launched, a video gets a little buzz, and ... Click here to read the entire blog post
25 Mar This post is from from my other blog here "Why don't we use more services online?" Here is the most simple question that any Web user, from expert to beginner can answer: signing up over and over again to each and every new service is a pain. The Web is an open-platform, so it doesn't make sense that users have to jump so many fences to hop from site to site.Yesterday, I headed to the San Francisco's Northbeach to video-interview Peter Nixey and Immad Akhund (and David Cole in the back) from Clickpass.The clickpass team has developed a super-simplified tool that leverages the power of OpenID. Built on top ... Click here to read the entire blog post
24 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Last week, Disqus was announcing the Beta2.0 of its product (along with a fresh round of funding). Since that, it seems that the comment management startup is operational to integrate with other online services.Today, Daniel Ha announced that users could now add their Disqus profiles to Friendfeed. Friendfeed has been having a lot of buzz lately, and it's a really good move for Disqus to participate to the hype. Thanks to this new integration, your friends on Friendfeed will get to follow all your comments made on Disqus across the Web. Pretty rad!
22 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Is the credit crunch making it tougher to get a loan? Not so sure. While credit institutions are struggling the recession, P2P lending is turning into the most reliable and cheapest source of credits.The market of P2P lending represents $1.6 billion, and is expected to grow %800 in 2 years (to $5.6 b). Here is a short CBS video news report on P2P lending where Chris Larsen, ceo of Prosper, appears in a much classier suit than the one in the HyveUp video.Prosper is a really interesting concept. I'm bad with finances, and I opened a Prosper account. Well the ... Click here to read the entire blog post
22 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  It is now entirely easy and doable to connect your Facebook account with your Crowdvine account. For those who don't know about Crowdvine, it is the best way to make the attendees of a conference connect before the event. It is free and dead simple for event organizers to set up a network for their new event, and even more simple for members who sign up.(From Crowdvine) "Click here to read the entire blog post
20 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  The iPhone World has recently updated its site version... For the iPhone. As part of this face-lift, iPhone World made it super easy for readers to listen to the latest news article right on their phone.iPhone World uses Blogbard's technology to easily convert any written article into an audio stream. As you can see on the pic, the access to Blogbard is a click away, and I think that iPhone world is making a smart move there. While I agree with most critics about Blogbard that the reading voice is a little monotonous and hard to stay focused on, converting ...Click here to read the entire blog post
19 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  MerchantCircle is now counting 385,000 members in their nationwide online social network. To go with the flow, The Merchantcircle team added a new feature to their services for local merchants:They've added driving directions for visitors to easily locate businesses, along with a recommendation engine that suggest nearby businesses to the one customers are heading towards. Click here to read the entire blog post
19 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  Thanks to its discussion tracking technology, Buzzlogic can follow the most influential site publishers blogging about American Idol to get an insight on the most popular contestants.Click here to read the entire blog post
19 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  Utterz is announcing today that users can now post directly from their mobile phones to Youtube. Starting today, Utterers are also directly connected to Yahoo Groups, Livespaces, Drupal and Twixtr.Step by step (it's actually going really fast), Utterz is making it easier than ever to quickly post multimedia from any mobile phone to any Web site or social network. Check out the complete press release here.When I interviewed Sim from Utterz (about a month ago), I thought that Utterz was aiming at becoming the leading voice-centered social network. I just thought it was one of those crazy ideas typical ...Click here to read the entire blog post
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18 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  Good news from Disqus, the version Beta of the commenting management service has been released. The main changes imply:- Forums are replaced by communities, where all of your blog's comments are displayed on one page.- Commenters can now login or register to the service as they comment.- You can now connect your disqus account to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, del.icio.us and Tumblr.- There's a new widget (check out the sidebar of this blog).- Finally, the Disqus profile became easier to manage.I'm glad I met Daniel Ha at a time when Disqus was publicly launching. As you can ...Click here to read the entire blog post
18 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  The girls over at Buzzlogic are doing it again this week with this Vino Diaries featuring Courtney Cochran, popular wine blogger.Great choice of wine (I guess that's why she's a sommelier), I love Viognier (depending on where it's from, obviously). I didn't know Courtney Cochran at all, so I took a peek at her Website, which is very stylish, very 2008. While checking out the content, I landed on this: Apparently, Pommery has launched this design for the 4th of July. Personally, I find it horrible. Plus I'm a little surprised because this doesn't look like French wine marketing at all. ...Click here to read the entire blog post
17 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  Last week, I had the pleasure to drive down to Redwood City for an interview with Rich Pearson, VP Marketing at Attributor. There is a really simple way to explain what Attributor does. First is a list of links:The Link is Mightier than the Take Down NoticeSearch Engine Visibility: Where do copies of your articles rank?Attributor Grows Customer Base, Adds Sales LeadershipCondeNet Chooses Attributor to Maximize Value of Online PropertiesReuters Choses Attribtor to Protect ContentTechnically, that's what Attributor does. Attributor tracks content online to help publishers capitalize on the "viral" distribution of their content. The links above will take you to the pages where I've copied content to create the video interview about Attributor. This way, instead of fighting mills, publishers use their copied content to boost ...Click here to read the entire blog post
14 Mar This post is from from my other blog here The Internet is full of friends. It's such a friendly space that you end up with way too many friends, on a multitude of different social platforms. We all publish, post, share, twit, upload, comment, rate, review, and so on, so what's the point of having thousands of friends if I can't follow up on their activities?  Last week I drove down to the Google Park in Mountain View with my fellow cameraman (Paul) to video interview Harrison Tang of Spokeo. In just a few words, Spokeo is a friend reader. By submitting your list of email contacts, Spokeo spots ...Click here to read the entire blog post
13 Mar This post is from from my other blog here   Pretty cool news: Hacker News integrates with iPaper.users can vote and comment (digg-style) on specific documents.Despite their ...Click here to read the entire blog post
12 Mar This post is from from my other blog here I didn't like reading Calacanis' article about how startups can save money, simply because he never talks about management. I would be an employee at Mahalo, I'd feel pretty bad to find nowhere on my boss' article just one paragraph like "hire talents" or "use the most of your employees' ideas". It would have saved him some time and money to write a post about how great his employees are, instead of how financially heavy they are.A computer engineer could spend 5 days or 5 months on a project depending on how confident he feels about his ability to achieve ... Click here to read the entire blog post
11 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Wow, I didn't know that Starbucks was doing online video campaigns! And this one is quite catchy.
11 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Microsoft is bidding against Google to acquire Digg. It had to happen. Digg isn't crowded with ad-clickers, but it saves up a lot of valuable social data that search engines could really use to fine-tune their social search engines.  Larry Dignan started the discussion of Digg "better off with Microsoft or Google?". Larry seems to like the Google-Digg idea. He says Microsoft is too corporate for Kevin Rose, and that Digg would nicely fit in Google news. Well despite Digg's community allergic reaction to the idea of belonging to Microsoft, there's great chances the Redmond-based company will push really hard to ...Click here to read the entire blog post
11 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Twitter's first round, but ... Click here to read the entire blog post
10 Mar This post is from from my other blog here  Powerset. Powerset is a search engine that analyzes search queries and retrieve results based on natural language algorithms (and not only keywords).The search engine is still in private beta, and is expected to open to the public this year. ...Click here to read the entire blog post
10 Mar This post is from from my other blog here digg_url = 'http://hyveup.blogspot.com/2008/03/8-things-that-suck-on-youtube.html'My business involves selling views on Youtube. I get really frustrated sometimes. Here are eight things that suck with Youtube:1. You hardly control the option that lets you choose which feature video to show on your channel homepage (cache memory problems).2. The personal picture upload feature is mystic. You think you've uploaded your picture, but you didn't.3. The 'Customize Youtube homepage'. It works. It just sucks.4. Their embed player can get hacked. Mine got hacked by elmosyous, a strange Youtuber.5. Youtube makes you think that you have control on the still image that will be on your embed ... Click here to read the entire blog post
09 Mar This post is from from my other blog here "Cyber Storm II" is the code name of this year's reallest MMPOG. It includes 18 Federal agencies like the CIA, Department of Defense, FBI, and NSA, as well as officials from nine states, including Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In addition, more than 40 companies will be playing, including Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical, McAfee, and Microsoft.Cyber Storm II is actually a massive inter-governments reality game that features mock attacks by nation states, terrorists and saboteurs against the IT and communications sector and the chemical, pipeline and rail transportation industries of the United States.There's no set up date for the exercise, but ... Click here to read the entire blog post
08 Mar This post is from from my other blog here HyveUp has always been on blogspot, and I wouldn't change it for the world. Even though I can see that Wordpress offers way more flexibility and publishing power to its users, I'd rather go blogspot.Why?My theory behind it is fairly simple: Blogspot is a Google domain, therefore my content is easily indexed by Google, and to push a little further, I think that the search engine naturally chooses a blogspot if he has to choose between two blogs.I get this feeling because my posts almost always show up on the top natural results of searches that have keywords I wrote ... Click here to read the entire blog post
08 Mar This post is from from my other blog here submit_url = 'http://hyveup.blogspot.com/2008/03/becoming-uninteresting-complex-facebook.html';Is Facebook the victim of its own success? Obviously yes! It started when college students booed the service when the network opened up to the public. This negative event did not pollute the image of the hip social network (Nobody listens to students anyway, they complain all the time). It quickly became a mainstream social portal.  Today the descending curve of the hype is definitely a social downer. Premature adopters of 2.0 tech demand more. Twitter is starting to be consecrated as the next best way to connect in a meaningful way.The 2.0 tech crowd is merciless. When the ...Click here to read the entire blog post
07 Mar This post is from from my other blog here I'm glad to announce that we're starting to put our videos at work. If you look in the side bar, you can see the video with the logo, name, and digg button. That's it! Yup, pretty basic, but we believe we can go pretty far with this.The widget will just be on HyveUp blogs right now, but we are looking at releasing a sharable version pretty soon (let us fine-tune some good personalization tools first).
06 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Up until now, there wasn't any specific service that would allow you to sell your expertise online. Sure you can open a blog, but in order to make this business profitable, you have to rank high in the bloggers' A-list. The existing online revenue models do not allow experts to gather a solid community of leads to sell their expertise.  Enters Netcipia, a Palo Alto-based startup, the first free collaborative office suite online. Netcipia has developed a community tool that allows experts to convert communities into knowledge buyers. I've video-interviewed Miguel Membrado, the co-founder of Netcipia.After working in the field of ...Click here to read the entire blog post
05 Mar This post is from from my other blog here In this episode of Vino Diaries, Valerie Combs of Buzzlogic discusses Social Media PR with Katie Paine, Founder of the KDPaine online campaigns measurement agency.While I can say whatever I want, I'm a few light years from outsmarting Katie Paine. However, I do not agree with the idea that what people say online converts into actual behavior off-line. Actually, it rarely happens to see someone say something engaging, and actually convert it into action. It's even more unlikely online.Mostly when it comes to politics: Our online life is often used as a frustration outlet, mostly when our physical environment is ... Click here to read the entire blog post
04 Mar This post is from from my other blog here In 2006, you could hear Ed Zander (Motorola's ceo) say that mobile phone penetration is a powerful engine for economic growth:Radar.Radar is a mobile social network service that lets you ... Click here to read the entire blog post
03 Mar This post is from from my other blog here submit_url = 'http://hyveup.blogspot.com/2008/03/viral-is-dead.html';I've been having a lot of issues lately with a company that pays blog publishers to post "viral" videos on their site. They kept bugging me about their latest "viral" campaign where I mentioned on this blog here how much I was actually getting paid for it (5 cents a view) next to the said video. One important thing, though - I'd be very grateful if you could take out the reference to the precise commercial terms of the campaign (5 cents) as it breaches client confidentiality and breaks our publisher terms of service.(email)I explained that the money ... Click here to read the entire blog post
02 Mar This post is from from my other blog here I'm about to be edgy again, but when it comes to new features, it feels like the Youtube development team is led by chimps like we sometimes see in the Simpsons.Yesterday, Youtube announced a series of updates. Hold on to your seats, following are the recent updates the development team brought to the service:1. CHARACTER COUNTER FOR VIDEO COMMENTS - tells you how many chars you got left to type in a box.2. CONTEXTUAL HELP IN MY ACCOUNT - hover links and get access to a Help Center.And...3. EXPERIMENTAL PERSONALIZED HOMEPAGE BETA - iYoutube, basically.Customize your homepage!  Wow man, innovation at ...Click here to read the entire blog post
01 Mar This post is from from my other blog here submit_url = 'http://hyveup.blogspot.com/2008/03/becoming-uninteresting-complex-facebook.html';I found this video interview on Techcrunch (conveniently). I really liked listening to the interview. Techcrunch is definitely a leading micro media company, and it's good to hear what they are up to next. So if I got it right, Techcrunch's primary focus is to keep developing a network of blogs that will target different layers of the Web 2.0 entrepreneurship population. That's a pretty smart move, even though there are counter examples in the blog network industry like KnowMoreMedia who got shot in the back lately by Google's latest ranking policies.Techcrunch is unique because it cultivates exclusivity. The ...
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