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TalkCrunch meets HotOrNot
TalkCrunch is an irregular series of interviews from Mike Arrington of
TechCrunch. The latest
interview is with James Hong, co-founder of
HotOrNot, which I haven't heard anyone mention in five years.
It's a great interview, covering the start of the website (they sent an email to 40 friends and had 40000 hits by the end of the first day), monetising the site through subscription, moving on to free subscription and supported by advertising, dubious claims of 10 weddings a day caused through the site, their early use of virtual products (selling virtual flowers three years ago) and their new HotList product.
Labels: blog, podcast, website management
Emma Watson more popular than Daniel Radcliffe
Heather Hopkins' Hitwise UK blog is a great source of stats on current search trends. Heather analyses the Hitwise stats to produce regular reports on the popularity of those involved in current events. This week,
Emma Watson is being searched for more often than Daniel Radcliffe (and Paris Hilton), top searches being for 'Emma Watson photos' and 'Emma Watson boyfriend'.
Labels: blog, search
Mark McNulty and Pop Cultured

Can't keep up with Mark McNulty. He's only just launched his
photoblog and now he's teamed up with another couple of Liverpool photographers to launch
Pop Cultured.
Labels: blog, liverpool, photography
Breakfast Liverpool
Labels: blog, liverpool
Uninnovate
Uninnovate blog - Engineering expensive features into a product for which there is no market demand in order to make the product do less.
Labels: blog
Ulaanbaanjo

Being the musings of one man and his banjo, teaching English and being a general cultural ambassador from Liverpool to sunny Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia -
Ulaanbaanjo.
Labels: blog