Internet
The Cure for the StumbleUpon Hangover
Looking through our traffic analytics, there’s no denying the sheer amount of traffic that StumbleUpon can bring to a site. But there’s one thing that’s stood out about Stumblers over other sources: their lack of return visits.
StumbleUpon visitors seem to be a lot like those heading out for a pub crawl. They’ll visit a few [...]
Has Facebook become Spambook?
You have been bitten by a vampire, so and so’s added some innocuous application that you really could care less about, add this application to spam and alienate the few friends that you have left. This is just a sample of the garbage that now populates the Facebook mini-feed (cynicism aside of course). What was [...]
You Have the Right to Privacy (So Long as you can Afford it)
I was just having another look at the now infamous Does What happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook presentation and it got me thinking about online privacy and what a paradox it is. Anything online is easily reproduced and propagated by virtue of the internet being digital and omnipresent in nature. It is [...]
Monopoly with Real Money
I remember endless hours of my youth spent playing Monopoly, gleefully bankrupting friends and relatives alike while I had visions of being the next Trump. I always wondered what playing the game would feel like if those colorful pieces of Monopoly money were real instead. Now a new venture out of Montreal called Weblo promises [...]
