http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:40:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_1 fe6881c5ddd6417b0b2beb477beb6f47 Stoney deGeyter compiled the “Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!” It contains 400 items in over twenty-three topics including domain names, site design, navigation, links, and buttons. The posting is from 2008, so it doesn’t include anything on Twitter, but it’s great nonetheless. (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:40:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_2 f80cbe7712520cd9ad497d687104d2cd I visited 8,000 websites in the month of October—primarily in pursuit of interesting posts and articles for Holy Kaw. To survive looking at so many sites, one must develop ways to decide in a blink if a post is any good. What works best for me is to see if a post has an ordered (1, 2, 3) or bulleted (*) list; if it does, it's probably worth ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:52:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_3 5f5f8e4742b2ad6fc8f5a2f145ca0d21 It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad . The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves - the user interface was intuitive enough that people "got it" without any instructions. And the look of pure joy on the ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:40:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_4 1ee8054c0fa7801c3af9428d0f8f92f3 SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:52:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_5 102823e05aba0d0d0ae0e98b9e6c4d40 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T19:37:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_6 ba54d63f4f649f28a53a2f06cba9cc7a The good folks at the New York Times gave me an opportunity to talk about Rupert, gated news, and re-inventing media. I discussed the success at Pandora and how Icurrent is influenced by some key... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:17:20 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_7 e834fd567cf03f916dc7c32e6d2462d9 Of the hundreds of companies I meet in any given country, I only write about a handful. Sometimes it’s the ones that seem to be copying a US idea, but in reality are building their company in a completely unique—and frequently more profitable—way. Other times, I’m captivated by an idea that’s perfect for an emerging market , but ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:00:57 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_8 8b6ee510582953f91b2466bbefd52310 If you're going to leave your job at TechCrunch , you better have a good reason. I think Mark Hendrickson actually may have had one. Hendrickson left TechCrunch in March. After about two years of writing and doing development for TC, he got the startup itch. He formed a company, Worldly Developments , and along with co-founder Jay Marcyes is now ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:57:42-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_9 12b03c1acd8aec5e3f63ba6e42e0b499 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:55:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_10 3842434fa1445af2ad6f2df57ea1254f Check out how web design has evolved from 1992 until today’s sites built with Flash, CSS, and 3DML. It sure has come a long way. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:55:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_11 40c66df2ab8ad311282a2aebb830a0c8 Google's Dan Reicher (at podium) was joined by Stanford's Lynn Orr (left), Nth Power's Tim Woodward, and Under Secretary of Energy Kristina Johnson (onscreen) at an event Monday on innovation in green energy. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-12-01T00:03:16Z http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_12 3f739110df340741b7054b3894cdaeb8 Do we really live in an open web or is it only open until some companies say it's not? Is the web truly open when companies such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc, can close the door to their data, or prop it slightly ajar? With so many social networks and Web 2.0 applications it helps if third-party applications and services can access each ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:55:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_13 ac97864c061651aaabaaa1e3526e752f Nintendo seems ready to resume its dominance over its video game console competitors, Microsoft and Sony, and to shake off several tepid months of sales, an analyst suggested Monday. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:55:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_14 c599fd2f705540f9f44e769a21bdeda7 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T18:55:04-08:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_15 2396494f97b8c0d21962c380b49b57f0 It's getting harder to focus on the vision of cloud computing these days. While there are still plenty of critical and complex problems to solve, and many, many implications of this disruptive operations model that have yet to be understood, the truth is that we've entered a new phase in the evolution of cloud adoption. Real work now exceeds ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-12-01T00:03:16Z http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_16 ae909c2c54cf315baf6b351bf2a5b1f6 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:19:57 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_17 2e969ea1da3ae1cd4d7934b9e28a2478 Welcome to The Big Money Facebook 50, a ranking of the brands that are currently making the best use of Facebook. Various metrics—including fan numbers, page growth, frequency of updates, creativity as determined by a panel of judges, and fan engagement—were factored into each page’s score and ultimate rank on the list. View the slide show ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:33:08 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_18 b1c4f6feddd0403446c3814837426126 Join us for breakfast on Dec. 3 as we bring together experts from the world of web infrastructure and ask them to outline best options for startups. We’ll discuss future trends of platforms and new options for startups as the concepts behind hosting evolve. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:33:08 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_19 787263adf7825c890300fe75be4ef167 Kim-Mai was born and raised a stone's throw from Apple headquarters in Cupertino by a devout Hewlett-Packard family. After attending UC Berkeley, Kim-Mai worked for Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aires. Follow her on Twitter at @kimmaicutler, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T13:05:09-06:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/1#item_20 bdce0a0c40c19dbf38b38405da1eade9 A few months ago, at the MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing summit in Boston, I was asked on how best to follow-up on leads generated via the web by Richard Hill. Richard writes over at the Idea Exchange blog on marketing automation... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T13:05:09-06:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/21#item_1 ee094fd1b4499096a7eac2086b1c992c You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t done squat, either. Although “the big three” (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:14:57 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/21#item_2 c98f1b61811bcca860cd15bece38294b A round-up from Shakil Khan, effectively Spotify's consigliari today in London opened the kimono a little on where it's at. Speaking at the new NOAH Conference in London, the headline points from his talk were that we can, as we expected, see a U.S. launch in Q1 2010 as well as a launch in Germany and China in Q1/2 (so no pressure then). Spotify ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:08:39 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/21#item_3 18472991a2e601cacade09bdc1e53c79 There were some interesting panel discussion today at the NOAH conference - a new event in London aimed at presented tech companies to the private equity and banking sector - but the plethora of suited and booted attendees were shocked out of their chairs a little when Klaus Hommels, (one of the first angel investors in Skype, QXL and XING and ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:04:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/21#item_4 3fbe8fcf814b076a2fcd1ffb92b45e1e This is really impressive stuff. You can just tell from the lead-in. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T06:21:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/zoli/1259658924/21#item_5 9fd81a12e791676bbd77df618867e815 "How much life insurance do you have?" Zig Ziglar liked to say that with that one question, you could tell if someone was a successful life insurance agent. If they're not willing to buy it with their own money, how can they honestly persuade someone else to do so? If you're in the music business but you never buy tickets or downloads, can you ... (Read on Source) ]]>