iPhone users, what is your threshold for price on a paid app? At what point are you willing to say “screw it” I’ll give it a try. Is there a difference between 99 cents and 1.99. I’ve played around with pricing on the apps I have in the app store between 99 cents up to …

Just like a decade ago before Google came on the scene, the web was a mess. It was relatively easy to find “short tail” content like news, weather and sports but Google really solved the long tail which made the web infinitely more useful. There are billions of pages, thousands of new sites popping up …

According to the Google Blog, the search giant is expanding a feature its had for a while to make it more prominent which is showing pages that are similar to the ones you see in the results. This is an interesting move in light of Facebook’s announcement last week on their “Like” button. The difference …

I’ve been Facebook focused this week in my posts as their announcements last week stirred up a lot of thoughts. You have probably noticed the “like” button on a lot of web sites recently, including this one (see below). This was something Facebook announced last week and it enables web publishers to easily let their …

Facebook is on a huge roll right now approaching 500 million users worldwide. Most measurement services have them in the top 5 and some in the top 2 of most heavily trafficed websites in the world. They are in Google’s league in traffic and also starting to make traction with revenue. While they are not …

I’ve been involved with mobile devices, software and infrastructure for the past 10 years in one way or another so I’ve had the benefit of seeing new devices ahead of launch, experience new technologies before they were available to consumers and certainly listened to industry experts predict the future. I’ve had Blackberrys, a Danger sidekick, …

Whether you are The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or a blog like www.statclicks.com, how will you ultimately be rewarded for your content. Prior to the internet, newspapers made a ton of money from classifieds. In 1997 classifieds represented 41% of newspaper revenue, according to this article and fell to 28% by the …

Apple has defined themselves as a mobile devices company. With the amazing success of the iPod, iPhone and now what appears to be another home run with the iPad, it seems they are onto something. Clearly, their laptops are mobile devices and have been successful for a long time but the collection of categories that …

According to this post this morning on Google’s blog, 1 out of every 5 searches on Google is related to location. A reports from March 2009 had Google executing nearly 300 million searches per day which means 60 million location related searches every day and that is a year old so it is likely much …

Interesting to note that iPad.com, a domain which does not appear to be owned by Apple despite the massive amounts of money they are pouring into marketing their new device so who are the owners of this domain and what are their intentions. I’m sure Apple has approached them but who knows the offer. For …

I love the concept of Android. An open environment that device manufacturers can use to build killer devices and an open environment for third party developers to deploy apps to those devices. And of course, brilliant move by Google to get massive distribution so that they ultimately get more search dollars. While Microsoft has always …

This is an interesting site. DIYSEO (or Do it yourself search engine optimization) is a new service that helps web site owners improve their rankings in search engines. It was built by SEO veterans and walks you through a step by step process to improve your search engine rankings. I signed up for a free …

SimpleGeo is a neat service that just came out of private beta. Essentially they are attacking the problem that many new start-ups are having in the location based services space. That is managing massive amounts of geotagged data and the complex queries that go along with those services. I see this as the beginning of …

According to the official Google blog, Google has announced an integration with the Plesk Panel to make it even easier for web site owners who run Plesk (of which there are lots) to integrate Google services into your own site. Google has already done a lot to make it easy to add Maps, Youtube, Search, …

I’d love to be able to use Twitter as a mechanism to share public information but also be able to tag that information and associated with arbitrary things. You can insert #tags to today into tweets but that gets messy if you want to tag things with internal Ids. It would be neat if there …

This war between Apple and Adobe is interesting. Flash has had a dominant presence on the web for years and for a long time was really the only option for creating a highly interactive and multimedia web experience. Javascript and browsers have matured and now AJAX sites lead the way for interactivity even though they …

I think Shakespeare put it best when he said “what’s in a name?” That question has taken on new life in the internet era but it puzzles me. The values of some .com domains soared in the 90s and there seems to be a resurgence of huge priced .com domain names being sold recently. Candy.com …

Flippa is a web site that let’s you buy and sell web sites and domains in auction format. It is an up and coming site but a fantastic concept and appears to be growing in traffic. They claim to have sold over 35 million dollars worth of web sites and nearly 1 million in the …

How many times have you heard someone say, “I don’t get Twitter.” I hear it all the time but yet they have over 100 million registered users who combine to tweet over 50 million times per day and 600 million search queries per day. So, if you are one of those people who is saying …

I’ve recently switched to Chrome from Firefox as my primary browser. I use a Mac, having switched 2 years ago after getting fed up with the long boot times on my PC. It is truly the only reason I switched to a Mac and quite honestly I don’t do anything on my Mac that I …

I have access to Google Analytics for a variety of sites that I work with. I’m amazed at how poor a job Alexa does at rating sites at the long tail. We need a better way. Look at how poor a job Alexa does at these sites (names removed but this data comes from Google …

It wasn’t long ago that actor Ashton Kutcher and CNN were racing to be the first to 1 million followers on Twitter. Now Ashton is closing in on 5 million and is still atop the list while CNN is currenty #11 with just over 3 million followers. But just how influential is a tweet? Or …