An Open Letter to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington

Michael-
I really appreciate what you’ve done for Web 2.0 and the larger tech community. In many ways, you have given Web 2.0 a face it previously didn’t have. TechCrunch is one of my ‘must read’ blogs and I’m always excited to check out the new Web 2.0 companies and products you review and profile. It’s […]

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The New Face of Blogniscient

In my latest interview with Ben Ruedlinger the founder of Blogniscient, I mentioned that there were some significant and exciting changes on the way. Well, the changes are done and I’m happy to announce the new face of Blogniscient.
In working with Ben as my first official Creating the Buzz Web 2.0 client, we honed in […]

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Post to My Web or BlinkList

update: This post is outdated and the code likely does not work anymore.
The Yahoo! folks added a new Save to My Web feature - it’s offered via javascript. I previously had a “post to My Web”, along with something similar for del.icio.us and digg. It was somewhat of a hack because I couldn’t quite figure […]

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Pajamas Media and the Value of Blogs

David Cohn of Wired News poses a very relative question, Will Pajamas Media Wake up Blogs? I would argue that blogs are already awake or at least they’ve awoken and just haven’t gotten out of bed.
From the most recent numbers that I pointed to in yesterday’s interview, there are a relatively small number of people […]

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Interview with Blogniscient Founder Ben Ruedlinger

I was first introduced to Blogniscient via an email from its creator, Ben Ruedlinger. Blogniscient intrigued me because it attempts to distill the blogosphere’s biggest buzz for categories like politics, technology, and entertainment via its proprietary Article Ranking System. In layman’s terms, Blogniscient provides a snapshot of what bloggers are talking about, somewhat similar to […]

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Rollyo Adds Searchboxes

Rollyo received a whole lot of buzz during it’s beta launch. Since then, I’ve not read much about it.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been keeping a sharp eye out for the release of their Searchbox. The Searchbox offers you the ability to add any number of Rollyo Searchrolls to your site, including […]

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Bootstrapping Web 2.0

David Hornick continues the discussion about the problem facing Web 2.0 start-ups - a business model built around “buy me”. I’ve wrote about similar sentiments in the past. He opines,
there are a large number of “companies” being created again for the express purpose of being acquired. I certainly have seen it. I have met with […]

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