Testing Zooomr Upload capabilities

A favorite photo of mine…

Design Candle: 7 wicks ambiance light – for sale $29

This candle is double sided and makes a nice center piece on a table. It is an original design, imported from Argentina.

Dimension: 11" x 13" x 2"

Expires: April 15, 2006

Price: $29

Tags: listing, 94301, Palo Alto California, USA

Design Candle: 7 wicks ambiance light – for sale $29

This candle is double sided and makes a nice center piece on a table. It is an original design, imported from Argentina.

Dimension: 11" x 13" x 2"

Expires: April 15, 2006

Price: $29

Tags: listing, 94301, Palo Alto California, USA

Happy New Year

Have a happy, healthy, etc etc. New Year! 

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh: my TypePad blog is down – again

And two of my recent (highly trafficked) posts have disappeared since Six Apart has had to kick-in backup tapes that are a few days old. I know, understand and appreciate that shit operational issues happen, but this is really becoming annoying.

And for some reason, I don’t even have a copy of these posts in the Ecto cache that would allow me to publish them here as well.

Note to Om: this has not been Memeorandum’ed because we can’t publish on our blogs!

Bummer.

Tags: pissed

Don’t blame entrepreneurs to base their business model on advertising…

when you get headlines like this one.

Note: I have also published this piece on my WordPress.com account since I can’t access Typepad to post it on Software Only. Sounds like the technical problems and scaling issues aren’t quite solved yet… And I know that no-one is reading that blog, but hey – publish or perish .

We all know that ad spending is cyclical, and startups need to have revenue sources that are less prone to going up and done like a roller coaster. Just as an example, John Battelle during the November session of the Search SIG shared with the audience that the Industry Standard went from a $260M revenue run rate to $47M in one quarter when Bubble 1.0 exploded.

In that context, MarketWatch’s Frank Barnako had a catchy headline for his column this morning: Advertisers’ growing Net appetite shows. The most interesting, and concerning (?), bit was:

Sales of online advertising are so strong that some Web sites are sold out and taking orders 18 months in advance. “We have a supply issue,” Joanne Bradford, chief media revenue officer for Microsoft’s MSN, told the Wall Street Journal. Rising demand is allowing major Web portals to raise their ad rates. Several told the Journal that they’ve increased prices as much as 20% this year. MSN, owned by Microsoft Corp. said it charges as much as $1 million for an ad that lasts 24 hours on the site. “It’s starting to get into Super Bowl territory,” said Sean Finnegan, U.S. director of OMD Digital, a division of ad-agency giant Omnicom Group.

The Web’s multimedia capabilities are driving demand for broadband placements. “We have ad agencies telling us, ‘We’ll take every impression you can give us,’ ” said Wayne Gattinella, president and chief executive for WebMD Health. The president of the industry’s Interactive Advertising Bureau said media buyers are able to make rational judgments to justify online spending. “In 1999, there was no research and people were chasing fear and greed,” Greg Stuart told the Journal. “Now, there’s good data, plus marketers have their own real experience.”

Obviously, not every online property is as sought as MSN (or Yahoo, or MySpace,…) and I would venture that this overcapacity of ad inventory is only limited to the top Web properties. At the same time, it is clear that web sites, services or communities able to attract and serve a specific audience will get favorable response from direct advertisers interested in reaching and engaging that audience.

Busted!

Hmmm, nobody was supposed to make its way to that test blog yet, but I have been busted.

Can’t hide in the blogosphere .

Even worse: Jeff Nolan, who’s moving  to WordPress (here), just linked to me here…

Publishing from Flock

Quickly checking out publishing from Flock, the new social browser. Very cool.

There are still quite a few issues here and there, but it looks really powerful.

This is a text indentation:

The majority of web pages one can access through search engines were collected by crawling the so-called Static or Surface Web. It is a smaller portion of the Internet reportedly containing between 8 and 20 billion pages (Google vs. Yahoo index sizes). Though this number is already very large, the total number of pages available on the Web is estimated to 500 billion pages. This part of the Internet is often referred to as Deep Web, Dynamic Web, or Invisible Web. All these names reflect some of the features of this gigantic source of information – stored deep down in databases, rendered through DHTML, not accessible to standard crawlers. Pages in the Deep Web typically might not have a standard URL, and cannot be addressed in a standard fashion. In many cases, they actually do not even exist until a user asks a question by filling up fields in a form, and a response (page) is generated. Typical examples of deep web applications are airline reservation, online dictionaries, etc.

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Test of picture insertion.

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