In an article with the tantalizing title Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil, Alex Krupp takes a look at Bob Kraut’s study on Usenet and how getting a reply affected the chance that a poster would return and post again:
For oldtimers who received no replies, 84% posted again. [...]
A couple of notes on social networking:
Reports of Social Networking’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
In a blog entry titled Is social networking dead? Nope. We’ve only just seen the beginning. Here’s why, Alex Krupp does some good thinking about social networks and how they currently lack credibility. One particularly good observation he makes is that social [...]
Search Engine Land points a to a report stating that Google is now the world’s most powerful brand, as ranked by Millward Brown Optimor’s BRANDZ Top 100, with a brand value of $66.4 billion. Here are the top ten brands, listed along with their brand values:
Google ($66.4 billion)
General Electric ($61.9 billion)
Microsoft ($55 billion)
Coca-Cola ($44.1 billion)
China [...]
Monday the 16th seems like a good day to reflect on Google’s Friday the 13th purchase of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash. People are already calling this tie-up a nightmare for Microsoft (rumored to be the jilted suitor for DoubleClick’s affections). Is the story really that gory for Microsoft (and, for that matter, Yahoo!, [...]
Just after the good news that Apple’s sold nine digits of iPod (I’m still guessing that they crossed that mark in April, as I predicted here), the company comes out with the bad news that they’re slipping the next version of Mac OS X, 10.5, better known as Leopard. According to the New York Times,
Apple [...]
Clearly Joey and I are busy enough that we’re having a hard time with the care and feeding of the Nerdy. Why don’t we start light, and open with a joke this Friday night?
Hey, kid. That trash compactor you designed is up and running and I’ve got to say it looks great. Lots of grime, [...]
Yes, Global Nerdy is an ongoing concern. The blog’s been silent this week thanks to our work- and life-based commitments. More posts are coming!
In the meantime, please enjoy this op-ed graphic from yesterday’s New York Times that illustrates the life cycle of a blog post:
Not strictly an “everyday technology” post, but a link in today’s Wall Street Journal caught my eye. It’s a table of total compensation figures for a number of Fortune 500-type bigwigs. Mostly CEOs, but the odd chairman’s in there too, I think. Have you ever wondered how the high-and-mighty of the technology world compare, pay-wise, [...]