Wednesday, April 25, 2007

wikipedia edit - all the cool kids are doing it

Wikipedia edit for Steven Drozd. Alongside with Jon Stewart, and Steve Burns , Drozd appeared earlier this year on Nickelodeon Networks_Noggin's -Jack’s Big Music Show.I have also commented briefly on a few other extra-curricular activities outside of his recent tour with the flaming lips

Myspace going You Loot

The current trend in online sites and services seems to be a growing emphasis and reliance on consumer to consumer communication. As DealCatcher.com spoke of YouLoot (a hands-on consumer driven product ranking/review site), MySpace has also empowered its users with a similar consumer driven page/video/audio ranking service. The user based feature should better direct Myspace's growing popularity and size.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Dealcatcher - employees drunk with savings


I spoke briefly to Dan Baxter, founder of dealcatcher.com, after the class presentation on the 13th. I had wondered if the constant involvement of finding great deals ever got the better of his 9 employees. As I suspected, and I too would be guilty, Dan laughed he often couldn't resist getting in on the savings. The steady staff penchant for low priced Wii games and DVDs often has the Dealcatcher.com employees saving away their salary.

stiuqlexa entry

The class has blogged the unique word stiuqlexa. Considering all the talk of search ranking and google juice, the implications of such things in the business world can significantly effect web traffic. This exercise displays the internet in a functional setting. Here, web operation is manipulated as the irrelevant class word - stiuqlexa - is linked to an unrelated site that in turn creates an irrevelant but Google recognized association.