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Technorati passes away...

It's sort of sad to see technorati fail. I went to a few of their early parties and their space and team had the feeling of a great startup. Not quite sure why they failed, I think it is because they never got their infrastructure under control (poor performing search) and they never figured out their business model apart from being ad driven.

Here is a funny site

that aggregates information about you on the internet (zoominfo)

Simon Fell

Peter Dapkus

Memes, memes, memes

I've been reading this book on Memes and it gave me this idea for a little bit of java script you could embed in web pages. It would be called the meme box and would be linked to all the other meme boxes on the web. Each box would allow the user to (1) Enter a Meme (2) Promote a Meme , Memes would be presented on their frequency in a scrolling fashion.

Memes are a replicated unit of cultural transmission.

The next generation of marketing

Interest in feedweaver is building again, here is one comment from the feedweaver blog: "This is the next generation of marketing. A big leap towards future . 'ads of the people, by the people and for the people'. WYLIWUG defines this venture.

We'll see what happens...

Interesting web 2.0 presentation

Can be found here.

Economics of Synthetic Worlds

One of the things that fascinates me about MMORPGs is the way that virtual economies bridge to real economies. I picked up this book over the break that's pretty fun and discusses the topic:

Delicious is now part of yahoo....

I hope this doesn't end their creativity.

This is a note to remember to look at these mashups

A mix of mash-ups

Sample sites

www.analygis.com (census data + maps)

www.aytozon.com (Amazon.com + eBay)

www.celebrity-maps.com (celebrity homes + maps)

www.cellreception.com (cell phone towers + maps)

www.fboweb.com (flight location + maps)

www.homepricerecords.com (home sales prices + maps)

www.housingmaps.com (maps + housing listings)

www.simplyhired.com (job listings + social networking + salary info + maps)

www.trachtenberg.com/emgm (eBay motors + maps)

www.weatherbonk.com (weather + Web cams + maps)

Sites with lists of mapping mash-ups

googlemapsmania.blogspot.com

ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/maps/applications.html

Google entering the DB business?

See John Battelle's post here.

Feedweaver post

Feedweaver got a little blog mention here. Thanks for taking a look! And a mention here.

Blog Ads

For a while I have been frustrated with the ads that run on my blog, served by google. So I decided to write my own adserver. It's called feedweaver and you can use it to create custom ad feeds for your blog. You create an ad, tag it, and then subscribe to the tags on your blog. You can add a referral id to your ad (like from amazon's affiliate program) and then when people click on your ad you will make money. You'll notice some of the feeweaver ads run on this blog.

The location is feedweaver , try it out.

tags and more tags

I use delicious a lot and like tagging but I've been wondering about some enhancements to tags form:

1) Do you ever get frustrated with the way multiple word tags are mashed up together?

It seems weird to me that new york becomes newyork, web 2.0 becomes web2.0, what if tags were input as comma delimited strings instead of spaces. Then we could put in New York, San Francisco, Web 2.0 . It would make creating bigram statistics on tags easier.

2) What about namespaces? It might be nice to have something like xml namespaces in a tag:

like de:post versus journal:post . This would give you a way to disamiguate tags in different contexts and wouldn't be too hard to implement.

3) Since tags are attributes or categories of an item what if they actually were attribute values?

Instead of tagging something as 'green' or 'red' you could do color='red'.

Keep track of web 2.0 technology

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

Livejournal

Interesting article on the founder of livejournal. Livejournal is another site that grew by word of mouth into a real site driving real traffic.

Bye Bye Technorati?

Google just launched a blog search service.