Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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Essential Checklist for Starting a Blog

Raj Setty offers some great pointers for starting a business blog in his Blogging Starter Checklist: Register a domain name with your name and redirect to your blog. Get a "Creative Commons License" Get a feedburner account and direct feeds thr… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 11/13/2005 | Permalink

Comments (11)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Blogging akismet, blog checklist, buzzcloud, eurekster blog, favicon, flickr, raj setty, spam karma, tag cloud, tagging, technorati, wordpress            

Yahoo! buys Flickr. Damn that was a smart purchase!

No secret that I think Flickr is hot stuff (just refer back to my recent posts about Flickr here and here). It's definitely Web 2.0 material. Flickr investors like Esther Dyson must be pretty happy right now, but Yahoo! stockholders should be even happie… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 03/21/2005 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Content, Blogging flickr, web_2.0, yahoo            

flickr the game

I have already mentioned how Flickr has the characteristics of a massively multi-player online role-playing game, but I wanted to expand on this a little more. A "sticky" site has a sense of play to it. Flickr does this wonderfully, with interesting feat… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 02/27/2005 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Usability, Web Design flickr, web_design            

What is Flickr and why should I care?

What is Flickr? Until recently, I defined Flickr simply as a free service for bloggers who wish to post photos, not only on their blog but also on the Flickr service for other Flickr users to peruse, vote on, add to their favorites list, etc. Flickr… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 02/13/2005 | Permalink

Comments (7)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Content, Blogging flickr