Pop open your twitterific and subscribe to @willshipley cause he is going to break the news of Delicious Library 2 in twitter first and offer a promo code for a few minutes. He just wrote:

Twitter Special: When I launch DL2, what I’ll do is mention it here first, at special pricing, but only for a few minutes.

One more way social media is being used for promotion.

BTW: I’ve been using the beta for a while and it rocks! It’s like a Cocoa technology showcase.

The problem with Yahoo is that they are playing catchup in Google’s game: search and advertising.

Yahoo is not an algorithm like Google is. They started off as a human directory. If they go back to their roots and start a human ad network(with the help of OpenSocial), they could probably get better results than what google can in niche sites, like local sites.

Take a look at these ads from willowglen.ning.com a local community site for the San Jose area:

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

Are they relevant to the site? Ok, tough question…how about relevant to anyone…anywhere?

Now think socially: relevancy by connections!

With new API’s coming out like Google Firend Connect or Facebook Conncect, this might not be so hard to do (if the terms and condition allow it).

Take the test here.

My results:

84%How Addicted to Apple Are You?

This is an assumption and I can’t test is right now but:

Blogsphere readers know that anybody has access to Robert Scoble’s cell phone number. We all know Robert Scoble posts his cell phone regularly on his blog and we know he has an iPhone (Exhibit A, and Exhibit B).

So assuming his number is not a VoIP or a GrandCentral number, and that he is not cheap enough to ditch the data plan, you can just enter his number at any AT&T WiFi hotspot and booom, your on your way to a Flash-less internetz at WiFi speeds!

Note: I am not currently in the US therefor can’t prove my evil theory, so would appreciate anybody helping me confirm this ; )

Found this “relevant” ad in TechCrunch’s front page:

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

Why relevant? Well people that read TechCruch probably have acid reflux due to stress. Startup life is “exiting”!

BTW: first blog post, using skitch rather than regular upload.

The mystery of the famous Silverback app that nobody knew what it did is finally over. A post in their blog says this:

You can test your websites anywhere, without having to lug microphones or video cameras around. You could pop into Starbucks with your Macbook and run a usability test with a click of your fingers. You’ll keep your testers happy too — no need to wave a camera in their face or keep the microphone close to hand. In fact, for them it’s no different to using the web as they would anyway.

I’ve already signed up for the beta, and you can to at the link below.

(Via Silverback App.)

This video is based on a true story:

Twitter and friendfeed are missing!

Many have complained about the facebook chat, while other think it’s just awesome(couldn’t find a link for this post…lol). I don’t really care much about it to feel strongly either way, but do think there might be some serious consequences down the road.

The whole purpose of a social network is to keep in touch with friends(social graph) in an unintrusive way. After you’ve added a friend to your network, it is up to you how much you want to interact in the site. For years(no more than 4), people have created events, wall posts, groups, and even messages to interact with their social graph. These are all “structured data”. They are easily searchable by the community and interactions are opt in, just like email. Email is “trackable” in your home page through feeds(just like an inbox) and responses are asynchronous. This means you answer/interact when you want, in you own time.

With the introduction of Facebook Chat, people no longer have a choice on whether to opt in, since they are getting messages once they log in. What I think will happen is that people might stop using some of the services like wall posts or creating events for small stuff since they can just chat it.

I know I might be exaggerating a bit with the “death of structured data” title and all, but really: do we need another IM protocol? I already have Adium set up to handle 2 Gtalk accounts, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and Bonjour. This is just cruel to users, who are probably already using their IM client/protocol of choice while visiting facebook.

Where does the policing stop and the great user experience start web TV show? NBC is already giving the TV shows for “free” on TV. Why not have a version with ads put up on the torrent sites and profit from that as well as iTunes sales(at a reasonable price). I would love to see a TV studio do that. There are over 1 million downloads per week on sites like mininova.org for shows like Prison Break. Why not get into it. Make it easy for your viewers to get their hands on their content and watch it wherever they want. Get a cut from national advertisers on shows that are put on torrents, just like streaming shows of their sites. Instead NBC want to take the bumpy road and resist change:

Since Apple already embeds digital rights management (DRM) software within each audio and video file it sells, it appears that Kliavkoff is requesting that the company go a step further and police every piece of digital media a user imports into his or her iTunes library, regardless of its origin.

How stupid are they and when will this crazy thing stop?

Since MediaTemple’s Grid Service started suffering outages, I started using downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check my website availability.

I know they are not indestructible, but the irony of them being down when I wanted to check if my site was down, left me wondering where can I check to see if downforeveryoneorjustme.com is down so that I can test my site? duh

(By the time I finished writing this post their site was already up and running, but mine wasn’t).

(this is probably the dumbest article I’ve written here)