Ken Yarmosh is a web strategy consultant who helps organizations, businesses, VCs, and technology developers maximize their Internet and web investments.
Flock is a revolutionary approach to consuming the web. It integrates tagging, blogging, and feed aggregation all within the browser itself - no plugins, extensions, or add-ons needed. Built on top of the Mozilla platform (read: Firefox), Flock aimed at making life simpler (which is what Steve Rubel looked for) but missed the mark. Om [...]
Last week, I contacted Tony Conrad for an interview about Sphere, a new blog search engine presently in private beta testing. Tony, who is the CEO of Sphere was gracious enough to agree, amidst a very busy schedule. I’ve been lucky to beta test Sphere and think Tony and his team are off to a great [...]
If you are a social software company, I want to speak with you. As a regular Virtual Handshake contributor, I am helping authors David Teten and Scott Allen promote their new book The Virtual Handshake. The best part about your involvement is that it will be of great benefit and of no cost to [...]
Web 2.0 Consulting - Updated June 2008
I’ve been consulting in the Web 2.0 space before there ever was a “Web 2.0.” This blog has existed since June 2005 and it is representative of my interests and thinking. To learn more, you can search through my archives or if you are interested in some higher level [...]
Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion detailed some of his best RSS tips and tricks in a post entitled Ten RSS Hacks. Steve’s post shows that RSS offers much more than simply streamlined reading of blogs and breaking news stories.
Although Steve took some of the better tips, I’ll share three of my own
Track job searches using [...]
Considering the continued talk of the Web 2.0 bubble these days, it's important to take a step back and learn from past mistakes. There is much to learn from what we now call 'Web 1.0'. These are some of the lessons I've pulled from my recollection of the dot.bombs.
Smart growth and market share are typically [...]
What happens when you take the ‘mash’ out of a mash-up? You get a mess up.
Oodle, a search engine for local classifieds was requested to stop scraping craigslist for listings. They of course did so, stating
We are no longer adding new Craigslist listings to our index. We received a request from them [...]
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