Pickle Releases the Channel Player

Photo and video sharing Pickle.com just gave word about a major upgrade to their “Pickle Player”, which they are now are calling the Pickle Channel Player (disclaimer: Pickle is a client of Viget Labs, although I have had very limited involvement in the engagement).
The Channel Player is very innovative on a number of levels: 1) […]

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Compete.com Grades Google

The last two years, Forbes.com has graded Google on the performance of its Search Properties (see 2005 and 2006 Google Report Cards). Compete.com’s Jeremy Crane took a more quantitative look at how Google did in 2006. The results: major growth in the Video, Blog, Scholar, and Desktop Search Properties.
According to Jeremy’s analysis, Froogle, Local, and Directory fall into […]

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7 Ways to Successfully Pitch Bloggers

I get “pitched” throughout the week to write about different product releases or updates. Over the past few months, a growing number of these pitches have been less grassroot efforts and more professional and PR like. And many of them have not been good.
While I admit I am somewhat of a snob when it comes to what […]

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On How NOT to Build Trust via the Internet

By now you probably have read the stories about Lonelygirl15 (read description on Wikipedia), a YouTube superstar that turned out to be a huge fraud. The quick-and-dirty synopsis is that Lonelygirl15 was a young 16-year-old who posted a video blog detailing her journey through the always fun teenage years. The problem was, Lonelygirl15 really wasn’t […]

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Building THE MP3 Search Engine (and the Coolest Thing Since Sliced Bread)

This new tool scours the web for MP3s and then let’s you build a playlist based on what you find. The Flash player they provide to embed on social networks like MySpace and more generally websites simply loads the MP3s from the physical location of where the file exists on the web. Before adding a […]

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Mysterious TechCrunch Ad Claims $50K USD Signing Bonus

During my vast explorations of the web, I made my way over to the ever powerful TechCrunch and saw a most interesting ad: “We are lookin for Web Developers and Web Designers. US $50,000 Sign-up Bonus 007 Benefits.”
The ad leads to a page with no identifying information. The URL is simply an IP […]

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