As part of some recent consulting work, I spent some time looking at the new people-search engine from Squidoo called SquidWho (it is not Squidoo I was consulting for). SquidWho is an interesting service that may or may not be worth using (in most cases I think not) but there are a lot of things Read More…
Category: Reviews
The best investigative journalism in video on the web and how it pays its bills
Cross-posted from the SplashCast blog because I thought it would be of interest to readers here as well. One of the promises of the internet is to democratize access to both information and publishing. That democratization, in theory, makes voices outside of the halls of power more capable of changing the world than they would Read More…
Rapleaf and its problems
A long weekend after catching some bad PR (ZDNet) for selling user data to third party companies, reputation management startup Rapleaf now appears to be spamming the emails of long-ago registered users. It looks like a case study of what not to do from a company I’ve been hoping would prove a success.
Prioritizing your reading list and doing rapid niche research using AideRSS
AideRSS is a service I’ve wanted to make creative use of for some time. It’s neat – you supply an RSS feed and it ranks posts in that feed in order of reader engagement. The company is Canadian, too, and Canadian internet stuff is totally hot. AideRSS scores each post by the number of comments Read More…
The best things about Technorati
Technorati CEO Dave Sifry stepped down yesterday and the news gave cynics another opportunity to talk smack about blog search in general. There are a handful of things I really like about Technorati and I think the company deserves a bit of defense. If Technorati takes a dirt nap, I’ll be bummed for a number Read More…
Will You Consider Using MovableType 4.0?
MovableType, from SixApart, is one of the oldest blogging platforms on the market but last night the MT team released a new version that’s worth taking note of. It sounds like they are taking a very smart approach; learning from best of breed related apps (many of which they also own) and developing towards where Read More…
Interview: Cool Online Tools for Nonprofits
My friends at NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, are starting a monthly “cool tools you should know” video series and I did the first one with them. I hope it proves useful, not too basic for nonprofits but not too “head in the clouds” either. Links to the tools discussed are below the video Read More…