Category: Technology

When I migrated to WordPress after using MovableType for several years, I could not at first seem to get trackbacks to work properly. I was never able to get them to work with Movable Type, so it was not at first a big deal, but it frustrates me when other people can get somewhat simple, installed technology to work and I cannot.

With some tweaks, and the use of a really handy free trackback testing website, Test Track,  my trackbacks seem to be working properly. See it work both ways here.

I think I like the open-source spirit!

Anybody see today’s New York Times, where Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter) was interviewed and stated that they are not focused on making money. According to the Times:

Twitter, a company in San Francisco that lets users alert friends to what they are doing at any given moment over their mobile phones, recently raised an undisclosed amount of financing. Its co-founder and creative director, Biz Stone, says that the company was not currently focused on making money and that no one in the company was even working on how to do so.

Did we learn nothing from the last dot.com boom when investors threw money at anything new and flashy? I use and like Twitter, though have never seen an ad, paid a fee, or even seen a way to buy a Twitter hat or t-shirt (which I will be happy to buy!). 

 According to Stone:

“At the moment, we’re focused on growing our network and our user experience,” he said. “When you have a lot of traffic, there’s always a clear business model.”

So, they have a business model, but it is not involved with making money, or at least none in the near future. Of course, he is the one getting interviewed by the Times, and not me. I am sure there is something to be said about that, though I am not quite sure what . . .

Ahh, life is good!

Think the dot.com bubble is coming back? Looking at this short video on YouTube, it is already here.

So, Google has bought the social networking application/website/company Jaiku. I tried Jaiku, and while their technology looks promising, too few of my colleagues used it to make it worthwhile. I suppose that may change with the critical mass that Google brings to the mix.

Of course, look what happened with Macy’s when they took their critical mass strategy to the likes of Marshall Fields and Filene’s here and here. Let’s hope Google continues to turn things to gold when they invest.

There is an interesting article in the current issue of Crain’s New York Business, which is the hand’s down best New York City business weekly, about how the senior editor at Crain’s New York Business magazine found his job through Facebook. While I am not fond of this social networking tool, it is interesting to to see a positive outcome, as opposed to just more hype.

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