Monthly Archives: April 2008

How Open Source and Social Media are going to Eat SEOs’ Lunches

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Nick Dynice

(Sphinn this)
Search engines react to behavior of its users and site owners. Search engines measures these behaviors to deliver value to each, but ultimately to serve the search engines’ best interests. At first, search engines used what they …

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What is better: SEO or SMO?

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Nick Dynice

You can spend engineering resources on fighting spam like Matt Cutts and team, or you could spend talent resources on writing and curtaining content like Jason Calacanis, Jimmy Wales, and passionate bloggers.

Likewise, you can spend engineering resources to make …

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Ignorance to Competitive Business Models Costs Incumbents $60 Billion by Refusing to Pay Strategy Taxes

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Nick Dynice

There is a really dumb press release (and I say dumb because of its FUDy tone) at Marketwire suggesting that open source is a threat to the software business. This is may be true, but I think my …

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Blockbuster + Circuit City May Mean More DRM

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Nick Dynice

Today, Blockbuster Inc. announced its offer to acquire Circuit City. This is not good for consumers.
Big box electronic retailers control the consumer electronics industry more that you might think. In the US (and maybe elsewhere), Circuit City and Best …

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The Truth Emerges: Valleywag at the TechCrunch/PopSugar Party

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Nick Dynice

What you are looking at is an ambushing of Mike Arrnington at his own party with the intention of pissing him off and creating news for Valleywag, and the real reason behind all of the drama. (Update: In …

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Drama 2.0

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Nick Dynice

My girlfriend and I attended the TechCrunch/PopSugar meetup last night. Well, Mike Arrington had to give Valleywag something to talk about. He, along with 6 bouncers escorted Bonny Pierzina, (a vlogger who was hired to photographer the event …

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