Monthly Archives: June 2005

buzhit!’s tail clipped; here’s to tarrantit.com

Lucky me, Google was apparantly in the middle of a ‘dance’ when I changed blog hosting plans. As a result, I went from ~800 indexed pages to less than 200 (with another couple hundred indexed under my IP address —

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Switching Blog Ad Providers

Regular readers might remember that I was graciously included in the launch of Feedster’s Media Network offering back in late April. At the time, I mentioned that I was experimenting with a variety of RSS ad providers, that I would

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Supernova 2005 Index Page

This is a place holder that will be updated throughout the week to link to the various Supernova sessions that I blog… Monday Track II: 830-1000AM… Tuesday Wednesday

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Grokking PubSub as the Offer Exchange

About a month ago, Bambi Francisco caught people’s attention when she clued in to the possibility of Google becoming an online advertising exchange. As noted in her own piece, this isn’t exactly original thinking: “The idea of an exchange “has

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Profiting Unfairly From Others

Still catching up, but thankfully, I wrote on this topic ~7 months ago, so I can just continue my thoughts… Ian Kennedy indirectly brought me into the conversation that Richard McManus (re)started around inappropriate use of content published in RSS

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More on MSN Spaces + XBOX 360, and Openness

Mike Torres of the MSN Spaces team was kind enough to respond to my post entitled, MSN Spaces, Meet XBOX 360. Mike asks, “What do you folks think about what Tony is saying here?” Mike got a couple of thoughtful

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Quick! Stop the Innovation Madness!

Innovation is a “side-show” when it comes to Local Search. After all, Local Search is a “pitched battle”, where success will be determined primarily by focusing on channel development and simplifying the offering to merchants. So says Justin Sanger in

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Integrity For Sale: $30

Appearantly, I come across as a cheap huckster (emphasis mine): “We’re a small company that creates [REMOVED] plugins for all the popular [REMOVED]. You may have heard of [REMOVED], our most well-known [REMOVED], which has had 11+ million downloads since

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MIT Weblog Survey

I’m filling out a survey on blogs being conducted by MIT’s Media Lab as I write this… It’s very interesting… in addition to asking me the basic demographic details, it asked for the URL to my blog… then scraped five

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