Updates

There's a lot of stuff today to follow up on, so I'll just put them all in one post.

Digg-ing Around

A bit of a follow up to these two posts, as well as some talk about credibility online.

This article talks about how this advertising company pretty much has people devoted to submitting stuff to Digg in order to drive up awareness.

I'm not sure how okay I am with that. It seems like a perfectly legitimate way to advertise, but at the same time, when you hire somebody else to do it, it feels a bit shady... I would not knock it though - seems pretty effective. Though I'm never going to look at those submitters the same way.

Man, I really hope this kind of stuff does not happen to Reddit. Though I think in Reddit, the actual story has more weight than the name of the submitter.

Hydra's Google

Google really is a wealth of topic material. They just released 2 new services, one being multiple inboxes for GMail, (so you can have inboxes open for your different tags/labels), and the other being "Google Book Search," which lets you read 1.5 million (!) new books, now optimized for mobile devices - that part is new, (since you could always read Google Books on a computer before this).

You seriously need to be a hydra just to be able to keep up.

While they're at it, Google is also starting to take over China, a place that has long been the domain of Baidu. What will they come up with next...?

This guy's blog post is of some interest...namely, because it's starting to look an awful lot like me... and to think, he wrote that before Google launched Latitude, Chrome and Gears.

Free Music!

I said before that free samples are a good way to get business. That's been Last FM's business model for years.

Anyways, Amie Street does it a different way - they give the music away for free, at first. Then, depending on demand, the price goes up - a true free market! It's brilliant. Not sure how successful it is, but it got me hooked...