I just found a comment on www.steveneely.org saying something generic about “[steveneely.org] wrote an interesting post today on…” and a link back to the poster’s site. Out of curiosity I went to this site to find it is a blog full of thousands of posts that all say “X wrote an interesting post today on…” and covered in zangocash adverts.
It looks like the owner (frank the blog dot info) is automatically posting on other blogs to direct traffic to their site. This would help with SEO and have click throughs. Sneaky frank (wonder if it’s the eponymous fat frank L).
I’ve been using twitter for over a year now and am still only part sold on it. I keep having random people add me to their “following” list and I find this odd. Why would someone I don’t know want to follow my updates? I could make my updates private but I want to continue using the facebook twitter application to update my fb status from my tweets. It needs my updates to be public.
Thinking about the business model of twitter is an interesting exercise. Despite the large user base they don’t really seem to have one yet. The new Japanese version of twitter has adverts. Another idea might for them to sell user updates to businesses. Imagine tweeting about watching a movie and then being hit with netflix or blockbuster adverts.
Twitter is part way there and businesses are tracking you. You can set tracking on keywords that alerts your phone or IM when someone includes them in a tweet:
track word: starts tracking a word
untrack word: stops tracking a word
untrack all: stops tracking all words
track off: stops tracking all words
tracks or tracking: returns a list of words you’re tracking
So that is why random people keep adding me to their following list.
The Encyclopædia Britannica is offering free access to their online content to “people who publish with some regularity on the Internet, be they bloggers, Webmasters, or writers“. Registration is required.
This is too much fun. googleDrive is a flash front end on top of google maps that allows you to drive a little yellow car around the map. I went to Neubergring in Germany and tore up the track. Next stop Monaco then I may cruise round the Taj Mahal.
I hope they add a racing component (no, I’m not going to write it).
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