Archive for the ‘Just for Fun’ Category

How to Create a Web 2.0 Name

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Just for fun - how to create your own Web 2.0 site name: Choose one of the following: A. Misspelled word OR two misspelled words B. misCapitalize C. Funny name D. Punned Phrase OR joined phrase A. Misspelled word(s) a. Drop a letter from the word. Dropping an "e" is popular, e.g. Flickr. Or a vowel ...

Web 2.0 Map from Information Architects

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

IA has produced an updated version of their web Map - it highlights the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.

5 Most Expensive Web Addresses?

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Think you're sitting on a virtual gold mine when you purchased a domain name? In this article from Forbes, you can find out what the most expensive domain names really are. Just the list: Sex.com - $12 million Porn.com - $9.5 million Business.com - $7.5 million Diamond.com - $7.5 million Beer.com - $7.0 million

How Well Do You Know Web 2.0?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Think you know jack about Web 2.0? In this quick, fun, and entlightening quiz from Emerging Technologies, you can test what you know? It might also be interesting questions for eMedia meetings - just to see how much your team really knows and how much they just think they do! Take me ...

Need a Quick Web 2.0 Button?

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

You may want to try My Cool Button. Note - I haven't actually tried My Cool Button - so try it at your own risk. :)

Flickr Has an “e” in it…Web 2.0 Spelling CORRECTED

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Ever noticed how Web 2.0 companies seem to be missing the vowel keys? The folks at Mashable did, and wrote an interesting post contrasting the "misspelled" Web 2.0 sites with their correctly spelled counterparts. Read more on Mashable

Favorite Web 2.0 Applications

Friday, May 25th, 2007

If you're anything like me, you've got dozens of web 2.0 logins for dozens of various applications that are springing up like the spring weeds in the garden. Which applications do you find yourself turning to most frequently? Daniel Lemire gives his list of favorites. At a future time, we'll cover ...

The 10 Commandments of Search

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

The 10 Commandments of Search - From SEORefugee And the search god spoke all these words saying: I am the god of your search, who brought thee to the land of good traffic, out of the house of the sandbox. Thou shalt use no other engine before me. Thou shalt not make unto ...

You Know You’re an Email Marketer When…

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

You know you've done too much email marketing if: you don't end friendships or love affairs...you "opt-out" of them you can't read any text wider than about 600 pixels you can think of 17 different ways to describe something as free without actually using the word "free" the shopping list ...