I found some pretty juicy edits that Occidental Petroleum (aka OXY) made to their Wikipedia page. I used Virgil Griffith’s awesome Wikiscanner to find them, of course. One edit last month, made from an Occidental IP address, whitewashed 5 scandals & controversies from their page in one session:
Occidental’s Cleanup Job - Shows […]
How is it that billion $ companies have utterly inept PR departments? Etrade just announced, in a completely asinine way, that they’re ending their 12b-1 fee refund program. The program basically refunded a small percentage of the marketing fees charged by mutual funds.
Here’s how they decided to trumpet this improvement to clients, in […]
Just got an interesting update from Jelsoft, makers of Vbulletin, the popular commercial forum software. They’re currently in closed beta-testing of their very own blog software. From the email:
vBulletin 3.6.8 was recently released as a maintenance release to improve the stability of vBulletin and provide compatibility for the upcoming vBulletin Blog addon. The […]
Arsebook is one of the funniest parodies I’ve seen in a while. Their tag line advertises the site as “an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.” It’s refreshing to see a fresh spoof among the legions of web 2.0 communities. If you join the Arsebook community you can […]
I found a neat Firefox extension that saves and crops screenshots. It’s called Snapper, and it’s saving my non-image-editing butt some time. Just right-click and select “start snapping”, then drag the box over the portion of the page you want a screenshot of - voila! It’ll save to your default location, which you can […]
I just finished creating a health search engine, using Google Co-op’s new offering. This new CSE offering from Google is my favorite in a long time, very useful.
I’ve hand-picked about 450 health and medical-specific sites to search. So far the results are really good - no spam, irrelevant sites, affiliate […]
Some well-known SEM/web-publishing names are organizing a conference, which they’ve dubbed “Elite Retreat”. The event is being put on by: Shoemoney, Aaron Wall (SEObook.com), Dave Naylor, PlanetAndrea, and Lee Dodd.
The retreat is being described as a sort of SEM pow-wow. Attendees will get direct access to some people who have done very well […]
What’s up with Yahoo lately? It seems like things just aren’t going their way. YHOO stock closed at $24.47 today, down from a high of $43.46 this year. That’s $23 billion gone from the marketcap (check the math). That’s rough.
YSM’s advertiser interface has needed a complete makeover and userability overhaul for a while […]
So everyone has heard that Mark Cuban thinks Youtube is a horrible buyout candidate for Google. I agree that the bandwidth and copyright issues that Youtube faces are significant. But I still think he’s wrong. Here’s why:
#1 - Youtube’s traffic is fantastic. With everyone looking to move away from traditional media […]
One of my favorite magazines, MIT’s Technology Review, announced a shift in their publishing strategy a few months ago. They decided to change their print publication from a monthly magazine to a once every two-month schedule. The idea is that this move will allow them to devote more time and energy to their […]