RSS Awareness Day - May 1st! Today is an important day. Not just because it’s May 1st, but also because we get to share with the world all the goodness and time saving features that RSS provides.
Feedburner recently reported that they track around 60 million RSS subscribers. Even if we bump that number to 70 million RSS users (counting people
Scott Fish - 5/1/2008 1:08:39 PM
The House Bubble: Forclosures Up 112% + Prices drop 12% We’ve seen many bubbles over the last 2 years and we’re really starting to see the bubble pop in regard to the housing market. When buyers can’t get financing that means there are fewer buyers to drive up prices. I’ve been watching my local market pretty closely here in Portland, and while house prices have ...
Scott Fish - 4/29/2008 12:25:06 PM
Going Grande: Is Everyone Cutting Back on Starbucks? Starbucks’ stock is down nearly 11% today and the primary reason is that the $4 cup of coffee is being cut out of a lot of people’s daily routine. One of the first thing that personal finance strategists tell people to cut things like Starbucks out of their budget.
Starbucks, in the midst of rolling out
Scott Fish - 4/24/2008 12:22:41 PM
CNN SI Hacked - Yahoo Cached The Hacked Page It looks like sports.si.cnn.com was cached by Yahoo and still has the cached page up from this attack.
Here are details and a full story from Yahoo:
After being called off Friday, the on-again, off-again cyberattack against CNN’s Web site again picked up steam early this week, according to network security analysts.
At its peak...
Scott Fish - 4/23/2008 8:44:23 PM
Marketing Done Right: Programmer pops question on girlfriend’s video game Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn’t enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question.
Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li’s favorite video game, “Bejeweled,” so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
Li reached the needed score — and said yes....
Scott Fish - 4/15/2008 2:23:27 PM
Lawyers.com Literally Owns the Top 100 MSN Results I was doing some research today and cruised over to MSN.com to see what site ranks in the top results for “lawyers”. Surprise! Surprise! It’s Lawyers.com.
However, what I didn’t expect was, to see subdomains dominate the next 90+ results, essentially giving lawyers.com a monopoly in MSN’s search result...
Scott Fish - 4/8/2008 3:35:44 PM
Google Shakes up DoubleClick - Layoffs of 300 Coming Earlier I showed you an email that DoubleClick sent to clients when they were taken over by Google. Then I showed you the email that they sent to Performics Clients that stated very clearly that Google would be selling the “Search Marketing” arm of the business.
Now it has become apparent that Google will be letting
Scott Fish - 4/3/2008 7:01:55 PM
Google’s DoubleClick Performics is Up For Sale I got this email last night, the bolded section tells me that they are up for sale.
As you are aware, Google closed its acquisition of DoubleClick on March 11, 2008. Since that time, we have been actively involved in integration planning for each of our products and business units. We have recently completed this process
Scott Fish - 4/3/2008 11:19:56 AM
Are You a Leader? Just look at Your Shoes Got a passion for buying sneakers? It could be a good sign, with a poll finding that people who buy three pairs of sneakers or more a year are far more likely to be a leadership type that other people.
Mindset Media, a media company that examines personality traits of different consumers, found that people who
Scott Fish - 4/1/2008 7:05:12 PM
Yahoo! Launches Shine - targeting women, fashion & beauty Yahoo! Inc. today announced the launch of Yahoo! Shine ( a new website for women that aims to provide the information most relevant to their daily lives. The site offers nine categories ranging from Fashion & Beauty to Parenting, and will feature content from many of the most popular lifestyles publishers, including Conde Nast Pu...
Scott Fish - 3/31/2008 2:41:33 PM
Obama’s Final Four Picks - NCAA Bracket Could Barack Obama’s NCAA championship pick have something to do with an upcoming primary?
No, he was leaning toward North Carolina because of its 6-foot-9 star.
The Democratic presidential candidate and avid basketball player selected North Carolina, Kansas, Pittsburgh and UCLA in his Final Four bracket, and is counting on Nor...
Scott Fish - 3/20/2008 12:36:52 PM
FCC Raises $19.6 Billion in 700 MHz Spectrum Auction As reported here…
The controversial 700-MHz spectrum auction has closed, raising $19.59 billion, a record for a spectrum auction in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.
Scott Fish - 3/19/2008 4:56:07 PM
Sports Illustrated Recognizes the Value of SEARCH SI.com is creating a free database of all the old issues and they are doing so because of the high value that the new content will create and the tremendous traffic that it will create via search.
“The real hidden value of this is what it does for search,” said John Squires, executive vice president of
Scott Fish - 3/18/2008 4:35:04 PM
In the Travel Industry? The 2008 RTP Resort Automation Conference is for you! The 2008 RTP Resort Automation Conference & User Group Meeting at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort.
RTP announces the 2008 Resort Automation Conference (RAC), being held April 9 – 11, 2008 at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort and Spa in Vail, Colorado. The RAC is RTP’s User Group Meeting designed to educate and inform you about...
Scott Fish - 3/17/2008 12:59:30 PM
Headlines Predicting Depression-era Financial Troubles From Around the World On the heels of the Bear Stearns Failure…here’s a few news items that are being thrown around tonight.
Reuters: Bush, Plunge Protection to Hold Emergency Meeting Monday
President George W. Bush plans to meet on Monday with top U.S. financial
policymakers, the White House said, at a time of increased strains in credit
mark...
Scott Fish - 3/17/2008 8:18:34 AM
JPMorgan to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share, or $236.2 million Just four days after Bear Stearns Chief Executive Alan Schwartz assured Wall Street that his company was not in trouble, he was forced on Sunday to sell the investment bank to competitor JPMorgan Chase for a bargain-basement price of $2 a share, or $236.2 million.
The stunning last-minute buyout was aimed at averting a Bear Stearns
Scott Fish - 3/16/2008 10:37:39 PM
Nine Inch Nails Sees $1.6 Million In Online Album Sales The NineInchNails were recently on the Alexa Movers & Shakers with a 930% increase in traffic. Their traffic wasnt the only thing increasing, so are their online album sales…to the tune of $1.6 million during only the first week of being released.
The new album, , sells for just a few bucks, $5 to be exact.
Scott Fish - 3/14/2008 3:50:13 PM
Recession, Stock Markets, Gold - Oh My! Gold hit $1000/oz today and the DOW is at the exact same price as it was 1 year ago, and oh yea, in case your missed it, Oil passed $100 and then $110 yesterday. If you invested in Google on Jan 2007, you’re at Par. If you bought WashingtonMutual Stock in 1997, you’re at Par.
Scott Fish - 3/13/2008 12:58:38 PM
Time Warner’s AOL Buys Bebo for $850 Million Cash Time Warner’s AOL to Buy Global Social Media Network Bebo for $850 Million in Cash
NEW YORK (AP) — AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business.
Bebo is one of the largest social networks in Britain, is ranked No. ...
Scott Fish - 3/13/2008 10:16:06 AM
Largest Domain Sale of 2008: Fund.com For $10 Million For only $9,999,950 you could have bought Fund.com - but someone beat you to it!
Clek brokered the sale for nearly $10 million dollars for arguably one of the best, short domains out there that is related to the investment field. The company that bought the name is Meade Technologies Inc, now named Fund.com, which
Scott Fish - 3/11/2008 6:12:32 PM
Google Acquires Double Click - Email To Clients The Google and DoubleClick has finally closed and has received approval by the important overseeing organizations.
Here’s the email that they sent to clients
Scott Fish - 3/11/2008 12:33:49 PM
Portland Entrepreneurship & Angel Investment Groups In Portland, there are tons of entrepreneurship groups that are quickly leaving their mark on the city byway of investment into small start-up companies in Portland. Here’s a few NorthWest and Portland Entrepreneurship groups that I have found helpful in learning and networking.
Oregon Entrepreneurs Network
The Oregon Entrepr...
Scott Fish - 3/7/2008 8:50:12 AM
7 Types of Advertising To Drive Sales What Kind of Advertising Do You Do?
There are millions of ads online every minute of the day that are pounding your eyes and your pocketbook with messages to try and persuade you.
As an advertiser you have to decide how to get through all that noise and put the story of your product in front of
Scott Fish - 3/6/2008 11:58:30 AM
Forbes Billionaires 2008 List - New Leader The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates’ reign as the world’s richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.
The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates...
Scott Fish - 3/5/2008 7:20:14 PM
Craigslist Traffic Nearly Doubles Year on Year
From HitWise:
Craigslist traffic just keeps climbing. Year on year last week, share of US visits to Craigslist.org were up 93%. And it’s not just traffic to the main Craigslist page, share of US Internet visits to the Hitwise Classifieds category, which is dominated by Craigslist properties, grew 137% year on year last week. (...
