Entries from October 2007

October 15, 2007

Bloody RSS

The ProBlogger post explaining how you can see how many Google Reader subscribers you have caught my attention because my RSS traffic has always been a bit of a mystery to me, especially since WordPress.com dropped its RSS stats. Web traffic is nice and easy to measure, RSS traffic not so!
I really, really wish I [...]

October 15, 2007

Why Digg-clones don’t work

There is another TechCrunch article today about yet more Digg-clones. After  noting that Digg seems “hard pressed to break out of its geek-infested niche”, TechCrunch goes on to observe that “other sites are using Digg-like voting mechanisms to attack a much larger and much less tech savvy crowd: celebrity gossip aficionados”.
Outside of Digg and Reddit [...]

October 3, 2007

Windows Social OS could kill Facebook

Everyone talks about the social “efficiency” of Facebook but the reality is Facebook isn’t efficient at all. It’s just more efficient than what we’ve had in the past.
And the reality is if Microsoft was to re-think its operating system strategy and go down the social path it could whack Facebook good and proper.
Every body in [...]