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Blog Design Tip from Problogger

Darren Rouse at Problogger has listed essential sidebar Navigation features for a blog: 1. Site Search 2. Archives 3. Blogroll 4. Recent Comments 5. Blog Categories 6. Most Popular Posts 7. Contact Info 8. Short About Section 9. Your Other Projects/Blogs – 10. RSS Buttons 11. Blogger/Author Photo 11. Advertising (contextual, CPM, text links, Blog [...]

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The Economics of Download TV

iTunes and Google, both are now selling TV shows and video content. Capn Design has done an analysis comparing the usual Cable TV costs and the cost of downloading all the shows individually. If you are a big live sports fan and have a large family, downloading all your favorite content would cost you at [...]

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Update on Google’s VOIP Plans

Google has entered into a contract with Voice One to provide VOIP services for its Click-to-call service, which runs along with its Adsense program allowing people to talk to advertisers without the regular PSTN phones. The contract runs for 2 years. Like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo also have similar VOIP deals. All of them have [...]

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Google Vs. Newspapers: An Update (again)

The World Association on Newspapers, based in Paris, has launched a lobbying campaign against the usage of their content by news aggregators like Google news. Recently, Google News came out of Beta versions. It indexes around 5000 news sources. Earlier, news agency AFP had also warned Google new against using its content. It has a [...]

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Google disappoints Wall Street: Shares fall by 12.4 percent

In a season of business news dominated by Google, now a dampener. For the first time since its 2004 IPO, Google’s performance has fallen below analyst’s expectations. The 12.4 percent fall in its share price has wiped out $16 billion in shareholder wealth. Though its net income has almost doubled (82% actually) to last years’ [...]

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Study proves we love large bills

A new study, done by the Journal of Consumer Research , due to be released in the Journal’s March 2006 issue explores our liking for bigger bills over smaller ones – and explains our marked reluctance to part with a larger bill when compared to an equivalent dollar amount of small bills. The authors had [...]

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Study Finds Sharing to be the core of Viral Marketing

Highlights from a study by Sharpe Partners, a marketing agency: 1. 89% of US adult Internet users share content with friends, family and associates by e-mail, and they do so often. 2. 63% of the respondents share content at least once a week, and 25% share daily or almost daily. 3. The e-mails are usually [...]

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The Basics of Influence and Persuasion

A summary of a presentation by Dr. Robert Cialdini, a noted expert in the areas of influence and persuasion. Dr. Cialdini is the author of “Influence: Science and Practice”, a book which has sold over a million copies. This post provides an overview of basic strategies that can be applied by anyone in business to [...]

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Image of the Day

“I was a copyright infringement in a previous life” t-shirt series.

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What is Copyright?

I found this at this interesting site. Here the author describes copyright in 99 words: I love music, movies, and books. I also love technology. I want to use technology to deliver the media I love anywhere, anywhen, with anyone. This is fair use: I bought it, let me use it. I will tell all [...]

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