http://www.moogle1.com Because Mike has too many answers and not enough questions. Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:37:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I agree with Chris Pirillo's post about how Zango is hijacking free video content. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much recourse available to him directly now that his own content is served/semi-owned by YouTube, but his position as an A-list blogger and the attention he's getting (front page of ... http://www.moogle1.com/2007/08/pirillo-getting-zango-spam-out-of-google-index/ The Eggnetwork , launched by VideoEgg and profiled by Michael Arrington may seem to be just another video advertising network. However, I believe the people over at VideoEgg have made another prescient decision about the direction of web video and how to monetize it. VideoEgg first migrated away from the ... http://www.moogle1.com/2007/08/eggnetwork-and-2-ways-to-success-for-any-video-ad-network/ In Evergreen Content, YouTube, and Money, Fred Wilson suggests: It got me thinking about this kind of evergreen content that keeps getting viewed day after day, week after week. What's that worth? To me, to YouTube, to the band? Let's start with YouTube. Let's say they do implement the 3 second pre-roll ... http://www.moogle1.com/2007/03/of-youtube-and-legal-evergreen-content/ Please, especially if you're in the Pacific Northwest US, keep an eye out for young Stephanie Haranczyk. She's just 16 and the younger sister of a friend of mine and was last seen over a week ago in Oregon. A note was found saying that she was running away, but her ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/12/searching-for-stephanie-haranczyk/ A very public argument between Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, and Jason Calacanis, the founder of Weblogs, Inc. and current trustee of traffic-generation for Netscape/AOL, paints a very clear picture of web 2.0 and why it was built. The latest salvo from Kevin Rose is brief, as he usually ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/07/two-sides-of-the-internet-coin/ After all the discussions about building solid online identity systems, Wired has the story in The Great No-ID Airport Challenge of how identity real world identification proves to be even less necessary and more useful to identity thieves. Are we focusing our attention in the wrong places or could an ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/06/faster-airport-screening-secret-the-great-no-id-airport-challenge/ Neither Michael Arrington at TechCrunch nor Seamus McCauley at Virtual Economics think Google's new AdSense PPC video ads were worth doing. I strongly disagree. I think Michael and Seamus are missing two major reasons why PPC video ads are at least an obvious, if not smart, use of the AdSense ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/05/google-video-ads-google-is-still-smarter-than-the-masses/ Terrell Russell commented on my earlier ID/trust post in "Can claimID provide credibility?" and a commenter there, Fred Stutzman, pointed out some great info about how trust can be built on a foundation of untrusted URL's, as well as pointing out several ID protocols in the making: OpenID, LID, and ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/04/digital-identity-systems-designing-to-keep-the-network-up-and-spammers-out/ The Boston Globe article "Blogs 'essential' to a good career" makes some excellent points about why spending time writing web "articles" and "commentary" is worth far more than some small amount of income from running AdSense advertising. Nonetheless, I have to disagree with their main points, as already summarized by ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/04/can-blogs-equal-jobs/ Garett Rogers of ZDNet confirms that Google GDrive is not a rumor. Despite how tired of hype each new Google product recieves I'm eager to see the front-end of anything Google comes up with. I recently switched jobs and am leading the development of an enterprise-class web app with an ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/03/gdrive-isnt-without-competitors-or-omissions/ Today Scoble added to the wild speculation about Microsoft's Origami product by pointing out that Microsoft hasn't done anything to let its bloggers know about the product release plans and that the product can't help but fail with expectations getting so out of control. I agree. While "the best companies ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/origami-a-fully-clothed-conversation/ The GAMEY group of companies - Google, AOL/Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, and Yahoo - have been grouped based on their growth by frequent buyouts and other acquisitions. Recently all of them have been criticized for a lack of creativity and execution ability, both for the strategy of growth by buyout and ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/gamey-grow-by-throwing-it-at-the-wall/ Yesterday I proposed the idea of creating a trust-system that would allow people to build and display credentials. Then Scoble posted on Kim Cameron's implementation of Infocards in WordPress. Infocards store and authenticate digital identities, from Kim's detailed description of the InfoCard system: Digital identities consist of sets of claims made ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/infocards-could-identify-trust-relationships/ The original TrackBack system has been a boon to bloggers. It has created a deeply interlinked system of sites and generated incredible search rankings as a result. Despite the impressive results, the crediblity being generated by trackbacks is somewhat biased toward authors and "regurgitators", bloggers who just build lists and ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/trustbacks-create-a-public-social-network-by-extending-the-trackback-system/ Gmail for Domains will likely turn out to be more expensive and have much more competition than suggested by Paul Kedrosky's "Gmail for Domains: Oh-Oh Outlook". Corporate bandwidth is still in short-supply and expensive. Microsoft's Office Live doesn't look to be a complete waste-of-space either. Based on the amount of extra ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/gmail-for-domains-not-alone/ ...don't make a lot of money in the process. Craigslist is adding a $10 fee to New York apartment listings posted by brokers, but not to those posted by private "individuals", beginning on March 1st. By instituting the fee Craig and the small staff at Craiglist primarily hope to improve the ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/the-key-to-ruling-the-online-world/ Far better and less selfishly than I said it in End of Net Neutrality Points to Another Bubble - I Want QoS Before I Fund It, Jeff Chester reviews the effects of the telecom carriers commoditizing bandwidth usage and the effects on consumers in The End of the Internet?. Chester's article ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/02/the-internet-commodity-article-review/ In response to The Problems With 2.0, pt 345314: I've noticed the "getting stupid" results myself after heavy following of Memeorandum. I think it's largely due to the limited number of topics important enough to rank on their pages. There seems to be less of an effect when using digg, ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/01/why-search-and-aggregation-work-best-in-small-communities/ While checking traffic for my drive home tonight I noticed a small dialog at the bottom of the Traffic.com website. It turns out Traffic.com is going public via OpenIPO and trying to raise between $69-82 million in the process. ...isn't Traffic.com built around largely free municipal traffic data? What's all ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/01/trafficcom-ipo-its-only-a-bubble-if-the-price-goes-up/ Jason Kottke contrasts the "Slashdot effect" and the "Digg effect" in Digg vs. Slashdot (or, traffic vs. influence) and draws conclusions about the level of influence each site has over the webosphere (both sites are somewhat more mainstream than the blogosphere). I think that the exact traffic levels delivered by ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/01/digg-vs-slashdot-no-its-about-the-audience/ It's not a stock price bubble now, but the inflated heads of network & telecom companies. Om Malik notes in "Slow Lingering Death of Net Neutrality?" that ISPs want in on the riches of all that data running across their networks. In a very carfully worded proposal the network providers ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/01/end-of-net-neutrality-points-to-another-bubble-i-want-qos-before-i-fund-it/ Running Wordpress? Grab the Wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu plugin to save yourself from the click-and-load-and-wait for submenus (thanks to Owen Winkler/Asymptomatic.net for finding this one). Amd, while I like this plugin and most of the fancy interfaces on the web now, but I'm not an average user. The funny thing ... http://www.moogle1.com/2006/01/simplify-wordpress-admin-with-drop-down-menus/ Steve Rubel suggests you can Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google via the Google Print book-search system. His method only works well on books that have been "opened up" by Google, presumably with the publisher's permission. Books that have not been opened up are much more ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/12/glory-days-of-reading-whole-books-via-google-print-are-gone/ Anyone remember that Yahoo bought del.icio.us this week? Well, if you also haven't forgotten that Yahoo bought blo.gs in mid-June this year and that Yahoo promptly "broke" the ability to add new links to blo.gs favorites for almost 6 months - then the current del.icio.us one hour maintenance outage (or see ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/12/yahoo-buys-and-then-breaks-delicious/ To a certain extent Google must understand that web usage data has value. The free Google Analytics service isn't free because it helps Google's ad-driven business model, but because the aggregate usage data gathered (referrer, click-outs, overall traffic, etc.) on thousands of sites is incredibly more valuable than the servers ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/12/web-usage-data-has-value-to-search-anyone-for-trafficrank/ I'm an IT manager by profession, and while Google has become "the ultimate IT answer guide" it irritates me that so few IT staffers actually document their fixes publicly so Google can make them available. Of course, several of my staff blog about video games and online poker on a ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/12/missing-the-boat-microsofts-online-services-shouldnt-be-clones/ Since Google's search supports using OR, it's possible to find (almost) every page in a book with a simple search string. Find the book you would like to read, click on the book to pull up some result pages, then "search inside the book" with the string below. Just about ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/12/google-print-hack-view-and-read-all-pages-of-any-book/ Is it still spyware if it's the OS double-checking its licensing startup? It's not to say that Microsoft will enforce the schema documented in their new patent app or that the application will be approved or restricted in light of prior art. Nonetheless, I wonder if Big Brother'ish enforcement of licensing ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/12/microsoft-patents-real-time-software-license-enforcement/ Thanks to Andy Smith at MetaBuilders for this collapsible and expanding ASP.NET panel control. Andy's free control saved me the time of writing it myself. I did spend a lot of time finding any ASP.NET panel controls in the search engines - hopefully this link will help out. For anyone browsing ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/10/aspnet-expanding-collapsible-panel-control/ The root of the whole relevant-results problem is the concept of open vs. closed networks. The original-closed "What's new on the web" lists from 1993-1995 (I think) and most human-edited engines (like the original About.com, now just an editorial engine) have been supplanted by Yahoo and Google search. The lists were ... http://www.moogle1.com/2005/10/will-we-censor-information-by-seeking-relevant-search-results/