I’m a huge fan of HBO’s hit show Entourage. If you haven’t seen it, shame on you - go watch it! If you have seen it and you didn’t like it, make an appointment, you need to be checked.
I stumbled across an article from Entertainment Weekly where they asked Jeremy Piven (who plays the character of Ari Gold on the show) to channel his character and give some “Gold-en” advice. Yeah, cheesy I know, but I didn’t come up with it.
They’re two of the largest businesses on the net, each worth billions of dollars. They rank in the top 10 in traffic, have millions and millions of users, and are powerhouses in their markets.
I’m talking about eBay and Yahoo. You may have heard of them, once or twice.
At some point an entrepreneur came up with an idea and the startup process began. It happened for eBay, it happened for Yahoo, and it happens with every business.
We spend so much time and energy trying to make our businesses and ideas perfect. By doing so we lose focus on the problem we’re trying to solve and possibly interest in what we originally loved.
eBay and Yahoo were created from nothing and were far from what trends and standards would define as perfect, or bee-yute-eee-full. Here’s a look at their first versions.
They’re both gigantic portals now that millions of people make a part of their lives each day.
If your product or website somewhat resembles the first versions of those sites, don’t worry. Like I’ve said, something is always better than nothing and can always be improved.
Launch that project that’s been sitting on the backburner and let the public help you better it over time.
If you have any involvement in the web biz this is a utopia of sound bytes for you. Webmaster Radio is an internet radio station that features nearly two dozen different regulary updated shows that discuss anything from advertising to making money on the net. Each show’s professional production values are an added bonus and another reason why we love Webmaster Radio.
Socialmeter is a handy tool to test your site’s link popularity.
Lucky for you, there’s the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator.
“Introduce an ‘ad counter’ on TV channels that shows a number of minutes and seconds remaining until the next advertisement package. It could even be enhanced with feature of showing time remaining until the end of the ad break so the viewer would know exactly when to return from the kitchen, bathroom or wherever to resume watching.”
Motorola is going to offer Razrs tattooed by Ami James from Miami Ink. Pretty cool.
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