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Watching Dara Torres on Jay Leno Let Me See the Future of Online Video Monetization
I have a sweet tooth for late night talk shows like Kimmel, Conan, Leno and Letterman. Since I don't have TV, I watch them online,
Yesterday, I was watching Leno on Hulu.com and Leno's guest Dara Torres an Olympic medalist swimmer showed me the future online video monetization.
Dara is 41 years old and headed to [...]
My #1 FriendFeed Feature Request: “Show Best Ofs” For Individual Users
On FriendFeed, I only follow people that I followed pre-FF. People like Fred Wilson, Andrew Chen and my good friend Chris Nguyen. Why? Simply because if I find a persons' blog or site highly interesting I think following their broader web activity on FF will be interesting as well.
Lately, I've been using FF more and [...]
Are Baghdad Residents Using Twitter? That Would Be Awesome.
The following sentence leaped out at me from an article I was recently reading in the June 12 print edition of The Economist that was all about changes in Iraq:
The sentence claims:
"... 261,000 Iraqis subscribe to the internet, against almost none before the war."
It really got me thinking about those 261,000 Iraqis and how [...]
Three Reasons Your Friends Aren’t on FriendFeed and You’re Stuck Following Louis Gray
Three reasons why your friends aren't on FriendFeed:
1. FriendFeed is just one more service for your friends to signup and remember a password and username. No one likes one more password and username to remember.
2. Your friends like to use social services that all their other friends use, not just people like Louis Gray, Fred [...]
The “TechCrunch Bump” Isn’t Magic for Small Blogs
Back in early December 2007, Mike Arrington wrote a TechCrunch post that linked to this blog. His post sent over a horde of TC readers AKA the "TechCrunch bump".
Above: This blog's unique visitors, 12/4-2007-5/16/2008
At the time, I thought it was going to give my blog a huge reader base that would cling to my [...]
Wiki: Where to Watch NBA Games Online
We here at BUZZYEAH love watching NBA games. Go Warriors! However, we don't have cable or TV so we have to do all our NBA watching at friends' homes or on the Internet.
We've noticed through our own Google-searching experiences that it's hard to find sites that stream NBA games online. They either have strings attached [...]
ESPN360.com Streams NBA Games, But Your Internet Provider Needs To Be on the “List”.
This blog gets a lot of Google searchers looking for where to watch NBA games online. I wish a had a definitive answer for where to watch NBA games online but I don't.
ESPN360.com is one of those places where you can find streaming NBA games online. But, it's not available to everyone.
If your Internet provider [...]
Stop Putting Yellow Pages Directories on My Doorstep
Yellow Pages directories used to be such useful tools. Remember those days? Everyone had one in their home in close proximity to their landlines. You could walk down the street and find one attached to every payphone in town.
I don't know about you but Yellow Pages directories don't seem like tools anymore. They just seem [...]
I’ll Probably Regret Not Taking Max Ventilla Up on His Job Offer
About a month ago, Max Ventilla the CEO over at The Mechanical Zoo sent me an email wondering if I'd be interested in a position at their stealth startup. He gave me a brief description of what they were working on and told me about all the cool people on their team.
What are they working [...]
Spam in My Gmail Inbox. That’s Blog-Worthy.
I can't remember the last time spam made it to one of my Gmail inboxes. That's what made this afternoon such a surprise. I got some spam.
It's almost refreshing to get spam nowadays (in some odd way). Not only refreshing, but blog-worthy.
I remember back in the day when I used to get tons of crap [...]
