Early warning. There are Web sites that give you life traffic reports, then there are Web sites that predict stop & go traffic. My favorite is the Bay Area Doppler Radar map.
Vertical search jeopardy. Josh Kopelman asks why vertical search engines are worried about Google Co-Op, but not worried about Google OneBox? I’ll take hubris for $500, Alex: “What is, when you believe people will remember you exist and come to you, that your only competition are other destination sites?”
What’s good for me, is good for you. Nikhil explains the benefit of self-centered software design: “To reduce my support pains, I started re thinking parts of the software that seemed hard to explain to end users. If I got calls for help on how to use a feature more than a couple of times, I looked at redesigning it.”
Think of all the RSS we’re saving. “Except, PJ removed the Chowhound API today. We don’t need it anymore. See, we marked up all the Chowhound topics with the hAtom microformat. Instantly we have feeds, pardon my French, out the wazoo.” (hint: lots of microformats w/Rails Goodness if you follow the link)
Cool like dat. Remember how your parents embarrassed you by trying to be cool? Brian Oberkirch about the new pretend-cool: “You’ll see plenty of Second Life & YouTube ’strategies’ from marketing hacks. Then mashups. All this after the MySpace bumrush.”