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Why are there different embed codes for the same thing?

lol

Posted 13 Apr 08
Get some TechCrunch 40 juice! :)

Tangler is in the demo pit at TechCrunch40 and is also being used as the discussion system. Nice!

If you want to join the buzz, jump in and add to the conversation.

Posted 16 Sep 07
Google Phone Rumors [update]

The “Google Phone” is a totally unverified but interesting rumor.
Someone at a mobile phone forum claims he was exposed to information on
a potential Google Phone via a paid-survey website. Garett Rogers has a
copy of the screenshot and some of the specs this user saw.
Garett quotes from the design specs which were visible on the screenshot:

The Google Phone brings the power of the internet in your pocket,
in a simple and intuitive device. It combines the traditional voice and
SMS capabilities of phones with all the exciting Google services from
the PC such as Search, Gmail, Maps, Blogger...

The Google Phone, designed by Samsung, is a very thing and stylish
handset with a large screen and a QWERTY keypad so that it provides a
real internet experience.

Already, you can use a variety of Google services on the phone (and Google partners with Apple for the iPhone), but often they’re a pain to use or install due to the great incompatibility of current mobile phone software.

Posted 13 Mar 07
Firefox: Best Extension

Google Reader Notifier

Posted 06 Mar 07
No Plan, No Capital, No Model...No Problem

Via Guy Kawasaki's blog
Markus Frind, the founder of PlentyOfFish.com is my new hero (James Hong of Hot or Not is a close second). Marcus spends about two hours a day in his underwear managing a free dating website that gets twelve billion page views a year. He is the only employee, and he only has one server. And by the way, he makes $5-6 million/year with Google ads.

I’ve moderated many panels in my time, and if I had to choose one that entrepeneurs should watch, this is it. If you’re one guy/gal or two guys/gals in a garage, it will push all the right buttons, and you’ll love it. However, if your plan is to raise several million dollars from venture capitalists and then hire five engineers, one vp of biz dev, one CTO, two testers, and a vp of marketing to ship a product in a year, you probably shouldn’t spend your time watching it.

The members of the five-person panel provided many good insights into starting and funding a company today.

Marcus Kazmierczak, vp of engineering, Maya’s Mom
Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com
James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com
Dave Lu, CEO, Fanpop
Karen Northup, CEO and Founder, CoreFino

Watch it and reap!

Posted 25 Jun 07
MySpace History (video)

Posted 12 Jun 07
Facebook Stats

General Growth
• More than 24 million active users
• More than 100,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
• An average of 3 percent weekly growth since Jan. 2007
• Active users have doubled since Facebook expanded registration in Sept. 2006
User Demographics
• Over 47,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks
• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
• Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities

User Engagement
• Sixth-most trafficked site in the United States*
• More than 40 billion page views per month in May 2007
• More than half of active users return daily
• People spend an average of 20 minutes on the site daily*

Applications
• No. 1 photo sharing application on the web*
• Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined*
• More than 1.8 billion photos on the site
• More than 6 million active user groups on the site
International Growth
• Canada has the most users outside of the United States, with more than 2.5 million active users
• The U.K. is the third largest country with more than 1.4 million active users
• Remaining Top 10 countries in order of active users (outside of the U.S., Canada and UK): Norway,
Australia, South Africa, Lebanon, Egypt, Sweden and India
*Source: comScore Media Metrix

Posted 24 May 07
J. Calacanis interview about e-marketing, Mahalo.com...

Interesting interview ! With good point on e-marketing strategies

Posted 06 Jun 07
Tech for country folk

ha ha ha very funny

Posted 05 Jun 07
GK: How I built a Web 2.0 Media Site for $12,107.09
Guy Kawasaki

By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09
Because of Truemors , I’ve learned a lot about launching a company in these “Web 2.0” times. Here’s quick overview “by the numbers.”
1. 0. I wrote 0 business plans for it. The plan is simple: Get a site launched in a few months, see if people like it, and sell ads and sponsorships (or not).
2. 0. I pitched 0 venture capitalists to fund it. Life is simple when you can launch a company with a credit-card level debt.
3. 7.5. 7.5 weeks went by from the time I registered the domain truemors.com to the site going live. Life is also good because of open source and Word Press.
4. $4,500. The total software development cost was $4,500. The guys at Electric Pulp did the work. Honestly, I wasn’t a believer in remote teams trying to work together on version 1 of a product, but Electric Pulp changed my mind.
5. $4,824.14. The total cost of the legal fees was $4,824.14. I could have used my uncle the divorce lawyer and saved a few bucks, but that would have been short sighted if Truemors ever becomes worth something.
6. $399. I paid LogoWorks $399 to design the logo. Of course, this was before HP bought the company. Not sure what it would charge now.
7. $1,115.05. I spent $1,115.05 registering domains. I could have used GoDaddy and done it a lot cheaper, but I was too stupid and lazy.
8. 55. I registered 55 domains (for example, truemors.net, .de, .biz, truemours, etc, etc). I had no idea that one had to buy so many domains to truly “surround” the one you use. Yes, I could have registered fewer and spent less, but who cares about saving a few hundred bucks compared to the cost of legal action to get a domain away from a squatter if Truemors is successful?
9. $12,107.09. In total, I spent $12,107.09 to launch Truemors. During the dotcom days, entrepreneurs had to raise $5 million to try stupid ideas. Now I’ve proven that you can do it for $12,107.09.
10. 1.5. There are 1.5 full-time equivalent employees at Truemors. For me, it’s a labor of love.
11. 3. TechCrunch wrote about Truemors 3 times: the leak, the leak with a screen shot, and the opening. I wish I could tell you I was so sly as to plan this. Michael Arrington thought he was sticking it to me. Don’t stop, Michael!
12. 261,214. Much to my amazement, there were 261,214 page views on the first day.
13. 14,052. Much to my amazement, there were 14,052 visitors on the first day.
14. $0. I spend $0 on marketing to launch Truemors.
15. 24. However, I did spend 24 years of schmoozing and “paying it forward” to get to the point where I could spend $0 to launch a company. Many bloggers got bent out of shape: “The only reason Truemors is getting so much coverage is that it’s Guy’s site.” To which my response is, “You have a firm grasp of the obvious.”
16. 405. Because some people had nothing better to do, there were 405 posts on the first day.
17. 218. We deleted 218 of the 405 posts because they were junk, spam, inappropriate, or just plain stupid. Interestingly, half the bloggers complained the site was full of junk. The other half complained I was deleting posts.
18. 3. A mere 3 hours went by before the site was hacked, and we had to shut it down temporarily. I was impressed. The hacker who did this might be the next Woz. Please contact me if you are.
19. 36. A mere 36 hours went by before Yahoo! Small Business told us that we were inappropriate for this service because of our traffic.
20. $29.96. Our monthly break-even point was $29.96 with Yahoo!
21. $150. Because Yahoo! evicted us, our monthly break-even point quadrupled to $150. If you’re interested in buying a monthly sponsorship for $151, you’d make Truemors profitable.
22. 2. A mere 2 days went by before Truemors was called the “worst website ever” by the Inquirer.
23. 246,210. Thank you God for the Inquirer because it caused 246,210 page views. Yes indeed, there’s no such thing as bad PR.
24. 150. A week before we launched, if you typed “truemors” into Google, you would have gotten 150 hits.
25. 315,000. Eleven days after the launch, “truemors” had 315,000 hits in Google. I can’t figure out how this can be, but I’m not arguing.
26. 4. I learned four lessons launching Truemors:
  
  There’s really no such thing as bad PR.
  
  $12,000 goes a very long way these days.
  
  You can work with a team that is thousands of miles away.
  
  Life is good for entrepreneurs these days.
I recently saw a presentation called Meet Henry and loved it, so I asked its creators, Ethos3 Communications , to help me create a presentation based on these experiences. Here are the slides that go with this speech.

As part of the growing world of Truemors, there are two Truemors add-ons to announce:
- Trickler is a standalone application that provides a ticker-tape interface to Truemors.
- AffinityBar is a Truemors toolbar for FireFox and Internet Explorer.
Here’s the bottom line: Whether Truemors succeeds or not, I learned a helluva lot. One thing is for sure: no entrepreneur can tell me that he needs $1 million, four programmers, and six months to launch this kind of company. With products like WordPress , MySQL , and Salesforce platform , things are a whole lot cheaper and easier these days.

For not a whole lot of money and time you can get something out there and see if it works. If it does, hallelujah: there’s no better time to raise money than after your prototype is scaling up. Indeed, you may not ever need to raise money. Fyi, there is no worst time to raise money than when you have nothing but an idea. Actually, there is a worst time: When you’ve burned through the first million, and you haven’t shipped or gotten any dogs to eat the food.

I end with a truism (as opposed to truemor): There’s only one way to find out if your idea will succeed, and that’s to try it, so go for it.

PS: We’d love to have a few more “truemorists.” These are folks with “accounts” at the Truemors site. Anyone can post via voicemail, text, email, and online submission, but truemorists can create, edit, save, and delete their truemors. Also, their names appear in green to distinguish their posts from those of non-truemorists.
Posted 04 Jun 07