Lame, No Digg.
April 30th, 2007 — dan.linLooks like Digg was the latest victim of the ‘Digg Effect’.
This can’t be good for business.
Wordpress 2.1.1 security flaw found and patched
March 2nd, 2007 — dan.linEarlier this week I upgrade the backend to the latest version of Wordpress 2.1.1. Today Wordpress announced that a hacker had inserted a remote PHP execution exploit into the code and recommended everyone to upgrade to yet another version 2.1.2. I guess that’s the risk I take for being an early adopter. The upgrade is minor fairly simple compared to the previous update. Hopefully you are not still running the dangerous version 2.1.1. If you are, go get the new one NOW!!!
Joost is ready to grow again
March 1st, 2007 — dan.linAfter hitting version 0.8.1 and logging 40,000 beta testers, the guys at Joost are ready to grow again. This week they began issuing more tokens for inviting friends to current beta testers. As a matter of fact, I already gave one of my 2 tokens to Senor Deekez earlier tonight and already they have filled my bucket back up to 2 again…
There are even guys now selling their invite tokens on eBay which I’m guessing you have to be pretty desperate to do. OK, I thought about doing that too but I’ve decided against it. If you need an invite to Joost and don’t know anyone already in the beta group, post a comment below and tell me why I should give you one of mine.
Digg.com no longer serving ads from Federated Media?
February 27th, 2007 — dan.linDigg.com has been using John Battelle’s Federated Media for their ad serving ever since the initial investment by Omidyar Network. Being funded by the same guy and all. But recently it looks like Digg has ditched FM in favor of their ex-ad server Google Adsense. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this? Is there any story behind the switch? It seems that Federated Media would be able to fetch a higher CPM rate by selling ads using their sales people than the ‘we’ll make it up in volume’, notoriously under paid system Google offers. I suspect that Digg might be in talks with Google about an acquisition deal. That would explain why Digg is favoring adsense exclusively to show Google why they are worth the $150M price tag they are asking. It’s just my speculation and contribution to the Google rumor mill. Thank you very much.