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  • Historians Rejoice! Mahalo Will Pay You For Your Favorite Links!

    Have you been wondering what to do with your BA in history? Did you take enough history classes in college to be dangerous? Is speaking history an occupational hazzard for you?

    Mahalo will pay you for your obscure knowledge of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines rawked, didn’t they?!!!???


    Mahalo Greenhouse

    Through the Mahalo Greenhouse, you can look for history topics that you can provide links for and get paid!

    Check out the tight topics going for mad cash!

    They even have a very instructional graphic with how it all works:

    How Mahalo Greenhouse Works

    So if you’re hoping to make a few more bucks with your history degree, look no further than the Mahalo Greenhouse.

  • The Web Analytics Association Election Starts March 24th

    Why is this important? This board is pretty influential in terms of deciding where companies like Omniture will drive the development of new web analytics tools.

    For details on WAA (Web Analytics Association) visit their website, and while you’re at it, if you sign up for a membership, take a look at this year’s candidates for the board.

    South by Southwest so helped my blog!

    Personally my vote goes to June Dershewitz.

  • Warcraft: Why Do People Need What They Greed?

    I caught 2008s infamous SxSW bug. While I was sick I medicated myself with lots of carrot juice, orange juice, and WoW, a really fun MMO, where I played a Tauren Warrior.

    While adventuring and tanking for the first time in RFC, my crew of 5 people ran into a problem.

    Poth, a paladin, rolled need on a Robe of Evocation.

    This shocked me because paladins almost always wear mail armor, and I’d never seen a paladin wear cloth before.

    Sisterjohn rolled need, too, and happens to be a cloth wearing mage.

    The following argument ensued:

    I had to give my 2 cents.

    Then Poth came up with an interesting point that I’ll later show to be a lie. He says, “Show me healing gear at this low level and I will :-)” The irony is that if you look at his gear now, it’s not at all a healing specific chest piece, but the Robe of Arugal.

    Here’s the shocker of a profile:

    Is Poth greedy? Is he a ninja? Or in the interest of leveling a Paladin in an interesting way did he really need that gear?

  • Strawpoll, Twitter as a Coral Reef, and Bruce Lee

    Dave Winer called Twitter a coral reef last April. It’s the highest compliment he said that he could pay.

    When I see something like StrawPoll, that brings together polling and twitter, I think we have to say that Twitter is more basic than a coral reef. Twitter is like water. Without it, you can’t really use the Internet anymore. Google’s search is water, too, and it wouldn’t make sense to have the Internet without it.

    StrawPoll also has a beautifully designed front page that reminds me of CSS Zen Garden, a great site for getting inspired about web design.

    If you’re making a web app you might want to follow the advice of this guy:

    Your web app needs to be like water. Everybody needs water.

  • A Google Trends for Twitter: Twitterverse

    If you’re wondering what the twitterverse is thinking about, look no further than twitterverse.

    It’s like the Google Trends page, except it’s just for twitter and does only a one word view, or a two word view, and just goes back 10 hours max.

  • Cool Links from SxSWi 2008

    Location Based Interactive Sites for both Mobile and Web:

    • Plundr – the area code based, mobile phone, pirate game
    • Socialight – leave geographic-based post-it notes using your phone.

    Sites with great Community Managers:

    Partition Your Tables with  HiveDB

  • Day 4 Vlog of SxSW 2008

    Secrets.

    Jakob Heuser, Gordon Luk on selling Upcoming to Yahoo, Sarah Cooper on Polyvore, Nikhil Bobb and Natalie Villalobos share secrets after the Post Secret Keynote, An Austenite on What He Thinks About SxSW

  • Day 3 Vlog of SxSW 2008

    Are you Internet Famous?

    • Alice Marwick on status in her “I’m Internet Famous” core conversation.
    • Eric Nakagawa on icanhascheezburger as a project for becoming part of the Web 2.0 crowd

    Tomorrow: Scalability Bootcamp, How to Party on a Monday, and Why didn’t you go to any panels at all?

  • Day 2 Vlog of SxSW 2008

    Breakups 2.0 – Can we make technology that will ease the pain of a breakup?

    SxSW 2008 Day 2 - Joey Hardy

  • Day 1 Vlog of SxSW 2008

    Did you know that bacon is an emotion?

    SxSW2008 Day 1

    Here are some quick clips from:
    1) John Vars, co-founder of Dogster.com
    2) Ted Rheingold, co-founder and Top Dog of Dogster.com
    3) Jakob Heuser, lead developer at GaiaOnline.com