Profitable Web 2.0? That’s Probably Worth $5.35 Million
It was bound to happen. Many people have pointed out the link between the tech crash and today’s Web 2.0 venture frenzy. It always seemed backwards (traffic -> venture capital -> make money). In the “real world”, businesses are expected to prove their worth before they get venture backing. You know, actually posting profits before getting funded. Well, it has happened. iContact (formerly intelliContact by Broadwick) has managed to do just that. With over 11,000 clients, the company turned itself to Web 2.0 by building RSS / Blogs and Syndication into its already hugely successful Opt-In Email Marketing Platform. Updata Partners recognized that, for once in the history of the world, a young, successful, profitable company was able to seamlessly...
96.6% of Wikipedia Pages Rank in Google’s Top 10
While everyone has noticed Wikipedia dominating Google’s search results, this is a little outrageous. After grabbing 600 random pages from Wikipedia (using their special:random link), I conducted searches in Google for each of the titles of the Wikipedia entries. Out of the 600, 580 were in the top 10. Wikipedia EntryTop 10? Czechoslovakia at the 1960 Summer Olympicsyes Jefferson Parkyes Unity Dayyes St. John Vianney High School (New Jersey)yes Veil of Darknessno Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commissionno Al-Fakik (crater)yes Group keyno Driver Hearingyes Black Lipsyes William Shakespearyes Comparative governmentyes Robert J. Whiteyes Lila Bell Wallaceyes William Dodd (Congressional candidate)yes Star (glyph)yes Kathleen...
Super Smart Experiment – Surviving the Digg Effect
Definitely one of the smarter experiments I have seen these days. This site tries to promote 1 story with 9 different hosting companies loaded up in Iframes. That way, each site gets the exact same amount of traffic from the exact users. Then he just pings them to check which are still up. I absolutely love this kind of attitude of bootstrap experimentation, especially when it is crafted in a way that makes it really accurate. I have seen stories before where they just pound 1 host, but not one where they can really compare multiple hosts at the same time. Kudos!
Digg Noise Filter Back Up!
for those of you that missed, the digg noise filter helps you find hot digg stories before they go popular After a massive 28 GB of bandwidth usage in under 8 hours (woohoo!), we were forced to move the Digg Noise Filter and the site as a whole to brand new spanking hosting. We also added a few new features (fixed the 0 diggs bug and added a no-refresh option). Now that we are on a dedicated box with more bandwidth/month than we could ever imagine, go ahead and start using the filter again! Thanks again for everyone’s interest in the tool, I found it really useful.
Digg Noise Filter Tool: Find Better Stories Fast
One of the commonly mentioned “reputation” measurements on Digg is the ability to find great stories early. If you Digg a bunch of stories early on that all go popular, theoretically your reputation increases. Thus, your vote counts more in the future for stories you submit and Digg. So, how do you find good stories earlier, when most of what is submitted is spam? A really simple solution that updates the latest 500 entered stories and allows you to filter them by minimum numbers of diggs. You can quickly find the stories that are hot well before they hit the front page!
Proof Your SEO Company Stinks.
After David Naylor pointed out a site that had custom file extensions of “.seo” I decided to take a look at how common this obviously terrible practice is, expecting to find the audit trail of one stupid SEO firm. I was wrong. Grossly wrong. Take a look yourself: pages with a “.seo” file extension in google. Over 400,000.
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