Looks like my pal over at FIM has done his job well, and MySpace has now integrated Google search.
The customization looks simple, but effective. And oh yah…retardedly lucrative.
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Trillian Astra – Looks Awesome
Saw this on TechCrunch a while back, and I have to say, I was excited. Looks like the new version of Trillian (Astra) is full of awesome upgrades and big improvements, with interoperability linking Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and now MySpace chat into one single and slick program.
Interoperability is important. It promotes healthy competition between market leaders, opens the door to consumer choice and, in our industry, streamlines reliable and powerful lines of digital communication regardless of your choice of system, protocol, or client. Because not everyone tends to agree with us, with every major release of Trillian we are obligated to keep things up-to-date to ensure that all of Trillian’s interoperable parts are running smoothly.
MySpace should be funding these guys or at least pushing their product with a few hundred grand in free advertising, since this is the one program that could actually compel me to use their chat program and put MySpace IM into real circulation.
Ok. little update. Apparently MySpace IM is doing a gajillion installs per day, and Trillian is barely scraping the 500k user base mark…so I stand somewhat corrected here. This information btw, comes from the person who developed IM for MySpace, so it is accurate I am assuming. Personally, I know no-one that uses MySpace chat…do you?
Oh, Boston.com…One More Thing
What is the point of my even subscribing to this feed? How about some excerpts at least….something beyond blind links.
If I just wanted to click around on things aimlessly, I’d visit the site. Unsubscribing now.
Hey Boston.com, Do This
Like many people, I am frequently poking around on craigslist for hired help, apartments, open houses, gadgets, etc…and like many people (I assume), I just type the following URL into my browser:
Except that about 50% of the time, in my haste, I type THIS into my browser:
As you probably noticed, the latter goes to a dead page. Not even a custom 404 page, but a truly dead page. No big deal to me really…it just costs me a few extra seconds to go back and correct the typo. However, this is a great opportunity for Boston.com to do something smart, and pick up some traffic from what I would imagine is a pretty common mis-type.
Boston.com should simply set a redirect on their servers, to send users who type in http://craigslist.boston.com, to http://www.boston.com/classifieds/ and get some free (and highly targeted for that matter) traffic.
You’re welcome Boston.com. A 50% rev share on advertising revenue gained from this redirect should suffice as a consulting fee on this one.