http://www.takingthebridge.com Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:40:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't been posting near as much as I would like lately.  The reason is that I have shelved development on my personal projects for something I think is much, much more interesting. I'm working at a company ZillionTV  What makes a guy drawing 6 figures from his home ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/06/technology-news/working-at-zilliontv/ I recently ran a campaign on Google Adwords Search and Content Network, which was a traffic building campaign.  I use these partly to build new audience and partly because often I can run ads against words no one is buying.  Everything was going great, until Google indexed the pages on ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/google/google-adwords-can-destroy-your-website/ Twitter Beats (Wow, By 3 Minutes) The USGS With China Earthquake News I couldn't agree more Danny. So much so I barely know where to start. I'm apparently not ADD enough, or lonely enough, or self righteous enough (and I am all of those) to like twitter. ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/responses/i-hate-twitter-even-if-it-is-3-minutes-faster-than-the-usgs/ As the results of my recent projects I'm building interesting maps of holes. Voids if you will, in the Internet. I was importing Webster's Unabridged dictionary and seeing interesting words I didn't know existed and thinking I wonder what that looks like. Well I have my own ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/search-engines/interesting-non-results-in-youtube-flickr-and-metacafe/ I like what I have seen of Powerset, but... and this is a big but, they have spent a lot of time learning how to search 2 sites.  2 sites that are well edited, are supposed to be reasonably encyclopedic. That makes it Cool, but a long ways from ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/responses/powerset-should-sell/ AT&T is making a big push to get the "2g" iPhone's to as many fence sitters as possible before the 3g version ships.  The 2g iPhone puts much less load on the AT&T infrastructure, as the dial-up speed surfing limits how functional the web interface really is. As the ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/apple/apples-2g-iphone-shortage-prior-to-3g-iphone-release/ Fred at A VC, wants me/all of us to use Disqus.  But Fred doesn't make a living blogging, so I think he misses some important points. I think Disqus makes a lot of sense for the commenter, but as the Author, I don't like it. One of the ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/responses/three-reasons-not-to-use-disqus/ Microsoft is moving on to Facebook.  Poor MSFT what are you thinking?  Facebook isn't getting rich on it's ad strategy.  If it was it wouldn't have wanted your money the last time you invested in them.  If you are shopping to compete with GOOG then quit looking at big players ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/technology-news/the-value-of-facebook-techmeme-or-any-other-scoble-favorite/ So that I don't post those posts here any more I've set up a Dev Log at iSayHello. It will have all my posts about adding things and revisions and such. http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/site-news/dev-log-set-up-for-isayhellocom/ PR Web and CNN have sent the search term Greatest Living American to the top of the trends list, once again.  As Colbert was just made Webby Person of the year and the press release claimed him to be Greatest Living American.   Well not so fast my Bear Hating Foe!  ... http://www.takingthebridge.com/2008/05/responses/search-results-that-are-right-not-bombed-i-am-not-the-greatest-living-american-despite-what-google-says/