Todays Technology & Marketing & Real Estate

facebook recently announced that it had acquired FriendFeed for $50 million dollars. This seems like a good fit considering that facebook has replicated some of the functions in Friendfeed such as the “like” feature. The main benefit to facebook is not so much friendfeed but the people behind it. Paul Buchheit, who is responsible for creating Gmail, pioneering some of Google’s early (and incredibly lucrative) advertising products, and coining Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto. Other ex-Googler … Read entire article »

If you use timestamped posts on your blog, can you tell me why? My guess would be because it is a basic out-of-the-box feature that either WordPress or your favorite WordPress theme provides you with, and you never thought of taking it out. Am I right? Most blogs use timestamped posts, and they might just be missing out on a lot of traffic and comments because of this. Just look at it this way – Why would anybody waste their time, commenting on someone’s several months old blog post? It’s old, outdated, and ancient history in Internet time. Besides the blog owner, not a whole lot of people would read the comment. It’s sad but true – a lot of people just comment for the sake of eyeballs. They want a … Read entire article »