Month: August 2005

Domain Squatters: Are they getting worse?

Is it just me, or is it getting to be impossible to secure a reasonable domain name? I recently had several of my domains expire. Some were live projects that I eventually stopped caring about, others were projects I never got posted and gave up on. I was considering revisiting one of these projects and… Read more »

ComScore Inflates Numbers: A Bogus Blog Report

The Social Software Weblog posted a bit about comScore‘s “Behaviors of the Blogosphere“. Halfway through the report, I was shocked. Ranking high in a graph titled “Top Blogs Ranked by Visits”, I found sites such as Drudge Report, Fark, and Slashdot. First I thought, “these sites aren’t blogs, what are they doing in this report?”… Read more »

Bringing Communities Together: Under One Login

Problem: I frequent several different communities on a regular basis and I must maintain an individual profile on each of them. Solution: One login to rule them all. The monolithic dark lords of all that is digital tried to solve this problem; but they have failed… Users did not want to sell their private lives… Read more »