OK, before we start, let’s take a look from a bird’s eye perspective. Social Media is still considered as an experiment – by many. Its not glorious as we might think it is from a sales perspective. Sometimes, people push it off as a fad because they don’t see the value in it. Not everyone thinks that social media can be sold. And what I’d like study is that, what if... 

For all 186K of you loverly RSS readers, here are the past five Signals: Friday Signal: Is Apple Evil? Is the Web Over? Is Privacy Dead? Is This Thing On?! Thursday Signal: Why I Love My Job, Again. Weds. Signal: The Numbers Tell The Story Tuesday Signal: I Got Yer Policy Right Here Monday Signal: Google Buys, Android Flys If you squint, it almost looks like a weekly newsmagazine! Tags:... 

About a month ago I posted about how fast WordPress 3.0 was being downloaded and there was a terrific discussion about the sheer amount of data that was being grabbed to get at the 3.0 version of WordPress.  We even had some comments as to why it was being downloaded at that scale. Well as of today the download counter reads that it has been downloaded just over 10.3 million times since it was... 

I thought it meant to search! Apparently, in this context, it means “to drop Microsoft Office and use our software!” I almost feel like a relic pointing out the obvious, but when I got my latest paper-based Fortune magazine (yes, I do subscribe to a few still), I found the image at left on the back cover. Long ago, while writing the book, I predicted that Google, long proud of the fact... 

Well, the founders think that others might like the tool too, and it will go popular beyond SEOs. But from what we’ve seen, advanced users like SEO’s are going to love this search engine ! Which one you ask – Blekko, the new kid on the block ! I don’t think Blekko is the best name they could find but that’s okay, if the search tool does the thing neatly, then I’m happy. TechCrunch... 

Tomorrow I will be at the Geo Loco conference in SF, interviewing Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures, investor in Twitter, Zynga, Etsy, Tumblr, Foursquare, and many others, and general good guy. Fred is great on stage, and we have a lot to talk about, given our mutual interests. But as I was preparing for the discussion, I pinged Fred and asked if he thought it’d be a good idea if... 

Who remembers the utter gold rush that was the Facebook Platform back in 2007, back when everyone, and honestly, really, EVERYONE, in the industry was busy answering the question “What’s Your Facebook Platform strategy?” Well I sure do. At FM, we had meetings to address this question, meetings driven by me, by my staff and my senior executives, and of course, by our investors, who... 

The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days. It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search. Besides the antennae story, which I find hopelessly over reported, the latest iPhone rhapsody has been how many iPhone 4s Apple has sold – apparently, 3 million as of last Friday. Friday was July 16th. The iPhone 4 launched... 

Yesterday, I wrote about a problem Matt had about the GPL license with the Thesis Theme. Though I am not biased and seriously do not want to get into an argument about it, let me put forth an argument that I think is really worth thinking about. Many of you reading this blog and probably who don’t read this too might have a blog, where you write rich and unique content and probably also have... 

One of the things that changes in WP 3.0 with multi-site is where file uploads and attachments get stored. This can be confusing to people trying to do export/imports and combine sites together. In the .htaccess file of a multisite installation, you’ll find this little bit of code: # uploaded files RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L] The effect of this...