/ blog · archive
Archive
Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
All your ads belong to us: time for Government intervention?
Steve Rubel calls it right on Google: “All your Ads belong to us“. Its been said before, but I’ll say it again: when will Governments start intervening in Google’s growth? How much of the online world will Google dominate before Government says enough is enough, this is anti-competitive, monopoly behaviour? Sure, the argument against is […]
Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1bn
$3.1bn: Google’s purchase price for Doubleclick. Struth. Web 1.0 lives again, literally, DoubleClick is a Web 1.0 company, dating from the early days of the internet. Is this a smart move for Google? if they apply the Adwords model to Doubleclick CPM banner advertising is going to get a whole lot more sexy very soon, […]
Will the CBS content be geoblocked?
CBS announces 10 content distribution partners: BBC. Will the content be geoblocked? I can’t currently view video content (show episodes, not previews) on the CBS website without spoofing my IP address or using a Proxy; will services such as Joost also block content to non-US viewers? I can only hope they don’t. And of course […]
Splashpress Media acquires 901am
Is there anything David Krug won’t sell? Email in my inbox this morning (my time, +8GMT) letting me know that Splashpress Media has acquired 901am. Minin Rivera, ex-Editor of The Blogging Times has taken the Editor position. Congrats to all involved. I’m starting to become convinced that I must be psychic: I was only looking […]
More Goose, more often from Scoble
Scoble on Photobucket’s ban @ MySpace: Myspace is right, everyone else is bad, parasites even. BS. MySpace is the amazing success it is because it gave it’s users a creative freedom other sites didn’t. My response to Scoble as follows. It will probably get deleted, so I’ll post it here. I’ll tell you what I […]
Google invests in Maxthon: smart move
Michael Arrington @ TechCrunch has the scoop: Google has invested in China based browser Maxthon, which for memory has something like 25-30% of the Chinese market. It’s a very smart move by Google, knocking Baidu off in China and Yahoo off elsewhere as the default search option for Maxthon will exponentially increase their share in […]
Has Twitter passed its peak?
Has Twitter passed its peak? or is it more of an adjustment following the post SXSW hype, a rollercoaster ride of traffic? I’ve got an ever increasing list of friends/ subs in Twitter, and yet the level of posting this last week is actually declined. Might have something to do with Easter…will wait and see […]
My Google Wishlist
For those not following my posts @ 901am, I wrote yesterday about my switch to all things Google. But I do have a small wish list of things I’d like Google to implement/ change so I can perfect my experience: 1. Outlook style functionality in gmailI need folders! The main reason I download my email […]
Just what the world needs: A Twitter Clone
Scoble reports the Leo Laporte has switched to Jaiku, a Twitter clone. Already I’m seeing messages there from new signups thanking both Scoble + Laporte. Does the world need another Twitter? I’m finding keeping up on Twitter hard enough as it is, imagine having to do it on two sites, or three, or more? And […]
An open apology: I was wrong.
On March 28 I wrote a post pointing out that Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has been duped by a clever person running a site called popuri..a site which I alleged ran on a script that could be bought for $20. Turns out I was wrong, totally wrong, and hence I openly apologise to all readers. […]
TechCrunch duped again?
Arrington covers Sonopia. It’s an affiliate program with a little touch of custom branding based on the affiliate. I’ve seen similar offerings before. In 1998. TechCrunch duped again, or a slow Web 2.0 newsweek? who knows, but credit to those getting the coverage.
How to get listed on TechCrunch for $20
Amazing. Simply Amazing. TechCrunch reviews Popuri, a site that provides a list of data like backlinks in Google, Yahoo and others. LifeHacker then reviews the same site. Here’s the thing, there is NOTHING special about Popuri at all, accept that they’ve given the site a trendy sounding Web 2.0 URL and a lite lick of […]
Dewars gets creative with online video
The Onion News Network has launched: some funny moments, but what I found even more interesting is the ad placements. Dewars Scotch Whiskey first popped up on the Web 2.0 radar as a sponsor in the last week of Ze Frank’s the show, although only with small banner ads under the videos themselves. For the […]
Africans show how to scam Google News
I was interested when I read the headline in my Google News feed: Start Your Blog Now – B?ɬ©africa-Opinions, listed as being Central African Republic. The content extract even sounded more appealing: “You?Ǭ¥re about to discover the complete How-To guide to set up your very own Video Blog. And we also show you how you […]
Twitter Badges
I’m not sure whether I should include this in the side bar, but I’ll try it in a post for now. follow duncanriley at http://twitter.com
Yahoo launches Brick House, but is she that sexy?
TechCrunch reports on Yahoo BrickHouse, “a new semi-autonomous business unit to foster new product development”, but is she good looking, after all, brickhouse is slang for “Full-figured female. Really built.”, or alternatively “very voluptuous woman, NOT like Halley Berry or Jessica alba. Thick and tough like Beyonce or J’lo”. Maybe Yahoo! has a fat arse, […]
Why Australia will never catch up in Web 2.0
SFGate: Where neo-nomads’ ideas percolate If there’s no WiFi there’s no Web 2.0 office, there’s no Web 2.0 culture, there’s no Web 2.0 development on the scale we see in the US. Whilst the Australian Government (and Opposition) remain obsessed with regulating the internet, nothing is being proposed or done to increase the affordability of […]
BusinessLogs on the Market
Mike Rundles BusinessLogs design business and site is on the market at Sitepoint, bidding from $25k with a BIN at $55k. Surprising move. As a concept and business I would have thought it was worth more, however without Rundle with it I guess the valuation is some what closer to what it should be. Question […]
Syntagma takes the FM/ Glam path
This is clever thinking. If you’ve got the aggregation backend in place why not open it up to outsiders if you’re confident of being able to sell advertising against it and can provide a decent cut (in this case 70%) to the content creator. My only query at this stage is what the direct benefit […]
New Australian blog network launched
Phil Sim has the details. I wish them luck, particularly with Gizmodo Australia, but I ask this simple question: WTF do mainstream media folk know about blogging? I mean the best they can come up with in terms of how the new company “Allure” will operate is that they are ripping Nick Dentons model from […]