Blog Entries tagged 'business'

Trend Micro False Positives

Don — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Remember when we told you that McAfee Recklessly and Wrongly Accuses Yahoo Store Owners of Malware and Spam? That situation was resolved, sort of. McAfee has at least removed the blanket flag on Yahoo Stores and now merely says "unknown" for most stores, even though many of those stores are paying McAfee for their security services.

Well, it seems that Trend Micro is up to the same thing. They were blocking Chris Lang [...]

We Are NOT Pinin for the Fijords!

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

You remember that scene in Monty Python where the guy explainst that the parrot is not dead, it's just "pinin for the Fijords!"

Well, we went from posting daily (or twice/daily) to a few times a week to ... silence for a week at a time.

Well, two products in beta, a couple of unexpected PO extensions from existing clients (thanks guys!) and a nasty flu that someone brough [...]

How Not To Do Reputation Management

Don — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I heard a story from a friend the other day that I've seen played out on the Internet dozens of times. A blogger who writes about restaurants wrote a post that was critical of the restaurant.

The restaurant owner's lawyer sent a cease and desist letter, claiming libel. In this case the blogger just folded and took down the post, but put up a copy of the lawyer letter with [...]

Doing The Math - No Money In Facebook

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

The otherwise very very smart Don Dodge posted this gem that gets some bits right:

I talked to a Facebook App developer at the ReMix conference. He told me his app is generating 300 million page views per month. Wow! Then I asked what kind of CPM (Cost Per Thousand) ad rates he was getting. He shrugged and said somewhere between $0.02 and $0.05 per thousand. That pencils out to betw [...]

Destructive Self Funding versus VC

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I was reading a very sad, frank, and wise notice from Russell Beattie about the death of Mowser, his mobile browser project. I know, and you know, that most startups die young, the ones that don't mostly become zombies living on consulting, and the small remaining percentage are bought for peanuts by larger companies lusting after their IP and management team.

Bu [...]

The Ten Commandments For Failure

admin — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I am not a big fan of "top 10" lists because my teeny tiny dinosaur brain can only remember two or three of the points, which makes me feel like I'm treading water watching eveyone else evolve their way ashore and I've left my proto-feet behind somewhere. But someone recently sent me this ancient (1994 era) email that had Bonnie McElveen-Hunter's:

The Ten Commandments For Failure

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More Great Business Advice Having Nothing to do With SEO

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Today's article at Bruce Clay was about avoiding a PR nightmare. He rightly suggests that the easiest way is to be smart and not get into one in the first place, which is easy advice, but then he knocks one out of the park by giving a 1-2 punch to the most human of impulses, retaliation:

Refrain from personal attacks. At all costs. There are no exceptions.Refrain from responding to [...]