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Fri, 02 May 2008 21:59:11 +0000
My colleagues at Mevio reveal the secrets of virality :)
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Fri, 02 May 2008 16:59:31 +0000
Mike Arrington: "This is not the first time a company has denied something that has turned out to be 100% true." Heh.
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Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:27:17 +0000
A short personal note on name changes. We had to make the iPodder name change very quickly. We had no money, no lawyers and no time. We tossed a few names back and forth and came up with Juice. It kept alive the notion of "fresh-squeezed" media --- where the lemon logo came from --- and we were not aware of any other product in downloadable media having a similar name. How did it go? Less than 24 hours after the launch of the new name, we got an angry email from the author of a software product called...Juice. An RSS reader. Oy.
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Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:16:22 +0000
Cali Lewis on the new Mevio name.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:36:59 +0000
PodShow is now Mevio. Here is the press release. Also don't miss Dvorak's take, which is, characteristically, entertaining.
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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:28:06 +0000
TechCrunch on who are using Amazon Web Services. Short and interesting.
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Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:41:52 +0000
Todd Hoff posted a long and thoughtful second look at Google AppEngine including limitations, pointers to apps, pointers to blog posts and a summary of the hot topics on the developer forums. Thanks, Todd!
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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:18:11 +0000
Lots of interesting reactions to Google AppEngine over on the Django community news aggregator.
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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:29:54 +0000
A few years ago Seth Godin asked, "remember AOL keywords?". I do! They ran a pretty major ad campaign encouraging people to find Web sites by using these keywords instead of typing the full URL, h-t-t-p-:-/-/ blah blah blah. The copy ran something like this: "log in to fubar.com, or use AOL keyword fubar". Today I realized that I use Google in exactly this way. Instead of typing a site URL, more often than not I perform a Google search that yields the site as the first or second result. My brain has hashed the site by keyword rather than URL. When I type that word into the searchbox in the upper right corner of my browser, bing! I'm there. AOL had the idea, but Google p0wned it.
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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:24:43 +0000
Wishing a great big and belated happy 11th birthday to Scripting News!
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