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Blogs ยป Archive for August, 2008
Marriott: Corporate Blog is Worth $5 Million
A couple of weeks ago we brought you a list of 15 companies that we thought epitomized great corporate blogging. One of them, hotel chain Marriott, recently revealed that they pull in $5 million worth of bookings each year via the blog.
Scalability: Traction from a Slippery Beast
What do you do when you run into a growth wall and find that scaling your business isn’t actually generating more revenue? The first step is to admit that you’ve hit upon a non-scalable business model.
Opentape Sticks It to RIAA with Open Source Muxtape
With web music fan favorite Muxtape currently out of commission due to “a problem with the RIAA,” an open source — if no more legal — alternative has appeared: Opentape. Opentape is essentially a clone of Muxtape released as an open source PHP application.
Google Launches Search Engine Suggestions
Nearly four years in development, Google today finally rolled out its Search Suggestions product to the main page of Google.com. Suggest started as a 20% project and was launched on Labs in December 2004. The feature will be rolled out to users over the next week.
How to Filter RSS Feeds
Last week a commenter asked if there was a way he could filter my posts at SitePoint out in his feed reader. While I sincerely hope he doesn’t, he’s in luck, because this post will show him exactly how to filter any RSS feed to only receive the content he wants to see.
Is It Time to Ditch IE6?
IE6 turns 7 years old this week. Its successor is almost two years old, and IE8 is on the horizon. So why do so many web sites still support it? Why do so many people still use it? And is it time we said, “Enough is enough,” and dropped support for it completely?
Microsoft Releases Photosynth: Just a Novelty?
Last week, Microsoft released Photosynth to the world as a free downloadable browser plugin and application. Is it as jaw dropping in practice as it was when the company first demoed it at the TED conference a year and a half ago?
10 Questions for Isaac Dealey on the OnTap Framework
Isaac Dealey is the author of two ColdFusion frameworks: onTap and an object relational mapper called DataFaucet. SitePoint recently had the privilege of sitting down with him for a discussion about his frameworks.
SitePoint Marketplace Reports Record Sell-Through Rate
There is a reason that SitePoint Marketplace seems to be breaking listings records each month — buyers are just as active as sellers. In July SitePoint saw a record number of listings and bids in the Marketplace, and more importantly for sellers, a record number of successful auctions.
Twitter Gets Serious About Spam
Spam accounts for 90-95% of all emails. Does the fate of social networks have to mirror that of email? Not if the founders of those sites can help it.
