Category: Business

  • FeedBurner acquires blog analytics company

    RSS management company FeedBurner announced today that it has acquired BlogBeat, a blog analytics company: […] The combined services will give FeedBurner’s 200,000 customers powerful tools for comprehensive comparison of feed subscribers and blog visitors, insight previously not available from…

  • The new customer service ethic

    With an attitude like this at Blip.tv, how can these guys possibly not succeed? – You know what’s really cool? The fact that we can actually give usable customer support from the table at a Korean barbecue joint. That wasn’t…

  • Podcasting apples and lemons

    Nielsen Netratings issued a press release yesterday (PDF) with some interesting stats on podcasting in the US. Here’s how it starts: […] 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio…

  • PubSub still in business

    Is the PubSub search engine business still in business or not? In a post on his blog yesterday, Dave Winer said: […] I’m sitting next to John Furrier at Gnomedex and he says he heard from Bob Wyman last night…

  • Each of us has value to someone

    Thoughtful writing in the current Wired magazine by Chris Anderson (he of the Long Tail) in an article about the business and relationship transformations happening, in what he calls the “peer production era.” I like his conclusion: […] This isn’t…