Inside Krasnodar | 2008

So you want to be in the social shopping space?
OK…… but now you will have to live with that pink elephant named “Amazon aStore.”
The Affiliate Tip blog writes, ” The Amazon affiliate program has a new option called aStore (click the image above to go to the actual storefront) that enables affiliates to create a […]

Evan Williams (pictured above), the CEO of Odeo, has a very thoughtful and insightful blog entry on how “Pageviews are Obsolete.”
Of specific interest to us here is the role widgets are playing in that process of obsolesence.
Here’s the part about widgets,
“Another reason: Widgets. The web is becoming increasingly widgetized—little bits of functionality from one site […]

Two blogs posts caught my attention today.
First, Pete Cashmore wrote an entry on Kaboodle’s big announcement today. As Pete explains, the announcement has three major components:
1. A Partnership with Shopping.com
2. The ability for users to form groups
3. The use of widgets for people to display their items remotely on other web platforms.
Before you all get […]

Om Malik, on GigaOm, has an interesting blog post today titled “Google, eBay Play Nice Over Skype.”
He writes, “…It (Skype’s “Click to Call” widget) has become quite popular with bloggers in particular, who embed the Skype Me button on their website….”
CLICK HERE to read to full article.

A while back, I wrote about creating a hypothetical web service named BrandRank. Well, in a blog post today, David Pogue points us to a website, named Baby Name Voyager, which is, “an amazing, Web-based, interactive graph of baby-name popularity over time. Type in a name; specify boy, girl or both; and marvel as the […]

Ya wanna see a website go viral?
Keep your eyes on MyBlogLog.com over the next week. I hope Eric and his team have got their servers ready because I predict Digg-like traffic numbers. (UPDATE: The are using Amazon’s S3 for their server farm, I think. At least the URL address was from Amazon’s S3 in the […]

What if brands are the building blocks of social DNA?
Here’s an excerpt from James A. Taylor, Ph.D. article titled, “Tribes, Brands and the Fate of Consumer Marketing”
The Social DNA of Consumer Tribes
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Oddcast, the company Charlie O’Donnell (seen above) joined recently, enables users to create the ultimate “vanity badge.” Click on Charlie’s avatar above to check it out.

In response to the question of what should the business model for badges/widgets look like (asked by David Beisel ) here is one possibility:
Vanity Fair’s MyStuff can be turned into a web service.
(Fasten your seat belts, this is a bit rough but I thought I would begin to put it down in writing and then […]

The quote in the title of this blog post comes from Mike Oliver who posted a blog entry “Brands and Identity” in response to one by Charlie O’Donnell.
Charlie O’Donnell, formerly of Union Square Ventures (think Fred Wilson) and now working at Oddcast, wrote the blog post which explores the idea that brands are one of […]