Flickr (who are now owned by Yahoo) just made a huge mistake. Yesterday they announced a number of changes to the Flickr service, which have received an overwhelmingly negative response from their community. Among the changes:

• You will now be required to have a Yahoo ID to log on. Users will now be forced to have a Yahoo account.
• The number of contacts a user can have is now limited to 3,000. There are no grandfather clause exceptions - if you have 5,000 contacts, you have to delete 2,001 to be able to add one more.
• Each photo is limited to 75 tags. Personally I don’t think this one is a big deal.

» Continue reading “Virtual Riots Rock Flickr - Will Zoomr Take Over?”

Over the past few months I found myself wanting to search for “web 2.0″ versions of many different websites just because most of the time I find that 2.0 sites are more intuitive, simpler, have useful features, and are a lot more fun to use. However there is not a “Web 2.0 search” that I’m aware of, so I decided to roll one myself using Google Co-op.

Introducing … (drum roll please) … Hype 2.0

» Continue reading “Introducing Hype 2.0: a Quick Way to find Web 2.0 Applications”

At the beginning of this month Shoemoney (Jeremy) threw up a challenge to Marketing Pilgrim (Andy Beal) by claiming that he could get more MyBlogLog community members by putting a picture of an attractive woman in his avatar rather than “Win a Free Zune” message.

» Continue reading “Sex Sells More than Gadgets”

I love how Google always preaches their “build for humans, not for bots (search engines)” philosphy yet they rely on bots and computerized systems themselves to rank search engine results. Am I the only one who thinks that’s a strage paradox?

» Continue reading “This Title Won’t Rank for Anything Relevant. Thanks a lot Googlebot.”

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

Yes, I am whoring out Shakespeare for effect, but I’m hardly the first. I really want to chime in on this “Is Linkbait bad - to be or not to be” discussion that’s been going as of late. The main facets being discussed are: A. Is linkbait badly named? B. Is linkbait bad? and C. Does linkbait drive bad traffic?

» Continue reading “What’s in a name? That which we call LINKBAIT; By any other name would read as sweet”