The Danger of Using YouTube Views as a Metric

I’m a big fan of the Facebook, MySpace and Technorati stats TechPresident is keeping on the 2008 Presidential candidates. These stats are a good measure of the amount of traction each candidate is getting in those communities and on the web overall.

The YouTube stats, however, are really deceptive due to the vastly different ways candidates are using YouTube....

New Version of I’m With Fred Website Launches

Regular readers of this blog know that we are part of the web development team working on the Fred Thompson website, www.imwithfred.com. On Monday afternoon, the team launched a new version of the site. Frankly, I’m too tired to write up a good entry summarizing all the new features so I’m going to cheat and just link out:

(1) The Fred File blog has a good breakdown of what has been added....

The Life Cycle of Social Media Hype

I’ve been reading with fascination a series of articles that have appeared lately that question the value of maintaining a presence in Second Life. To make a long story short, a year or so ago, when the Second Life hype was deafening, companies appeared in mass to construct their own virtual presences as a way to market their products....

Link Roundup (July 30, 2007)

Get productive with the best Facebook Apps

Lifehacker breaks down Facebook Apps that can improve productivity.

A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope

New York Times on Digg/Revision3/Pownce founder Kevin Rose. If anyone wants a Pownce invite, let me know in the comments. I’ve got a few left....

Newspaper Homepages and Load Times

Our recent newspaper study dealt exclusively with the features present on newspaper websites. We didn’t look critically at the design of these sites. The adoption of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) makes it possible for web developers to create rich designs while keeping the file size of pages to a minimum....