Archive for November, 2007

Singapore Hotel Insanity

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Three years ago, I felt deeply sorry for the city-state Singapore where I once lived and had many great memories. I visit about 5 or 6 times a year, staying at the Pan Pacific for a rate of $165 SGD, which was  about $99 USD. When SARS hit 3 years ago they couldn’t pay people to stay […]

How to Make a Viral Video

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

How to make your video get 1 million views on  youtube…

Make it short: 15-30 seconds is ideal; break down long stories into bite-sized clips
 
Design for remixing: create a video that is simple enough to be remixed over and over again by others. Ex: “Dramatic Hamster”
 
Don’t make an outright ad: if a video feels like an […]

Challengehost Sucks

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Beware of Challengehost. My intent isn’t to bash them, my intent is to inform webmasters who are seeking to host with this “company” or any of their network of affiliate company’s to beware… be very aware.
 
After countless round-abouts “customer service” just trying to get through to Challengehost and have someone reply to an email or answer a […]

Wordpress turns down $200m buyout offer

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Automattic, the company that makes wordpress.com blog publishing software and the wordpress.org open source project reportedly turned down $200m buyout offer . Apparently, they instead took a $50m round of financing to buy out the founder and CEO.
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Fatdoor raises $5.5m first round funding

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Fatdoor.com aims to connect you with your neighbors by providing a localized social network for your physical community.
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ChaCha gets $10m

Monday, November 19th, 2007

“The fact is, ChaCha is a bad idea that has been poorly executed. In a sea of dumb startup ideas, ChaCha stands apart as more awful than just about all of the rest. And that didn’t change with today’s funding news. They simply went from being a bad startup, to a well funded bad startup.”
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Spiceworks.com got $15m

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Growing at 10% a month with a membership base of 160,000, ad-supported IT helpdesk application raised $13m in two rounds of funding. That comes to $81.00 in funding per member.
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change.org to rival ning.com

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Change.org uses social networking to help social causes. The site already has it’s own network for linking volunteers to causes and voters to politicians. Now they’ve also launched a new Ning-like DIY white-label social network for non-profits. For the launch, they’ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like CARE, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International. Any other non-profit […]