This is a great story about Famster interacting with the Digg community. When the site was launched a couple of weeks ago someone put it up on Digg and it ended up getting dugg to the homepage. Ok, so nothing new there. The story got a couple thousand diggs after it was all said and done.
Archive for August, 2006
Making your blog posts readable
Have you ever been to a blog and found that the content is hard to read? It could be because the text size is too small or the blog post just has one big block of content.
When venture capitalists compete, you win
I can’t tell if this video is a joke or not but I found it rather amusing, but regardless, I guarantee it’s going to create some buzz, it is too controversial not to. The concept behind this video is that this company is tired of companies competing with each other for VC money, so he’s inviting VC’s to compete with each other to see whose money they’ll take.
My thoughts on school & marketing
[Guy Kawasaki](http://blog.guykawasaki.com) recently wrote, “[Ten Things to Learn This School Year](http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_things_to_l.html)”, and as a college student what he said really holds true for me. I am currently a senior in college and my major is marketing, so far it has not prepared me for the real world.
What’s your marketing plan?
You could put up a pretty strong argument that marketing is one of the most important factors of a company’s success. It is definitely up there, but these days the actual product or service is probably most important. Okay, so why are there so many companies being launched right now that have no marketing plans at all?
Crazy Egg officially launches
Have you ever found it hard to figure out how to improve your website? We have been having this pain for years which is why we created. We just launched Crazy Egg today. So what is Crazy Egg?
Getting Links 5 of 5
Some people do not believe in link building, are not concerned with it, or do not know about it, and in these cases link popularity is achieved naturally over time. So how do these people increase their link popularity naturally?
Getting Links 4 of 5
Linkbaiting is word that has been getting some attention recently. It is getting so popular that Aaron Pratt created an award for linkbaiting. So what is linkbaiting and why is everyone talking about?
Getting Links 3 of 5
Text links have become a hot commodity in the last couple of years. Website owners have realized that they can earn money by selling links and businesses have realized that they can increase their search engine rankings by buying links.
Catchup – 8/18/06
Internet search giant Google is reportedly planning to set up a server farm in India. This would be the second attempt by the Mountain View, California-based company, after infrastructure-related problems forced it to cancel an earlier plan which was scheduled for March this year. The company went on to set up that server farm in Taiwan.
