Mar
20th
links for 2007-03-20
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:25 pm
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A House subcommittee is again considering spyware legislation that would prevent the distribution of software that takes control of computers without user consent. While federal legislation of this type is needed, the bill as introduced is questioned as b
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Forget what your mother told you: start giving away the milk for free, and some people will still buy the cow. (If this were about video, I’d say, “Give the milk away, and make tons more money than you could from selling the milk by slapping some ads
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How does software design compare to setting up an Apartment? The smart folks at 37 signals make a great comparison. I’m a fan of 37 signals’ minimalistic approach to software. Sometimes I think they could do some better overall usability design, though
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Statsaholic (formerly Alexaholic) blends Alexa website traffic graphs with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core traffic chart junkies – aka Statsaholics.
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My wife has a birthday coming up and Marlboro Cigarettes was nice enough to send her another gift this year. This has been going on for about 5 years now even though she has never smoked.
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Lingr is a new chat room technology on the web with a fantastic full-featured API to integrate Chat into any other site. I’ve been playing wtih the API lately and may soon develop a Plugin where you can add an Ajax-powered chat room to your blog.
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iCrossing, a digital marketing agency committed to people’s desire to find, announced today that it will acquire Sharp Analytics, a leader in next generation business intelligence solutions.
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Dustin Brewer: I have compiled a list of the top 10 books I have found that give me inspiration or are truly worth reading for web designers, graphic designers, writers or just hobbyists.
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An interesting look at the impact of Apollo on Online Marketing.
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Johnson and Johnson, a leading global brand is shifting another 20% of its marketing budget into unmeasured media including search advertising.
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According the security firm Fortinet, Google’s Blogger.com is being used extensively in both phishing attacks and to propagate malware. In some cases the traffic to the sites is being driven by “a variant of the Stration mass mailer”.
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The Skyhook plug-in, available as a free download, adds a new grouping to AIM’s buddy list window called ”Near Me.” That group will feature the names of any buddies who opt to share their locations and who are within a set distance from the AIM user.
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Pivotal Veracity released a comprehensive report on HTML Email rendering in Microsoft Outlook 2007.
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…and soon the page view model of advertising will die (due to AJAX, RSS and widgets).
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we can stop worrying about dying pages and dying page views now since the answer has been with us the whole time. It’s not unique visitors …
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It may not be one of the Internet’s grandest accomplishments, but with the number of active bloggers hovering somewhere around 100 million, according to one estimate, there are some serious bragging rights to be claimed by the first person who provably la
