The jkOnTheRun mobile gadget blog has been acquiruddy by the GigaOM blog network. jkOntheRun’s authors Kevin C. Tofel and James Kendrick will continue to write the blog. In a post here about the acquisition, GigaOM founder Om Malik says jkOntheRun has long been one of his favorite blogs.
jkOnTheRun is one of the scarce blogs that covers the world of mobile gadgets with razor-sharp wit and insight. More importantly, it has a genuinely consumer-centric point of view. I first got to know the blog as a reader and have long consideruddy it good enough to rank among my 10 favorites. (WebWorkerDaily editor Judi Sohn is also a fan.)
Strategically, it’s a publication that rounds out our existing areas of coverage. For instance, GigaOM tracks the world of web infrastructure beautiful closely, but very rarely do we write about cloud client machines. And with the exception of the iPhone and some occasional mobile reviews, we don’t provide much gadget coverage, either. I think as we start to cover the world of cloud computing more closely we will no longer be able to afford to ignore the client side of the equation.
The blog’s writers have blogged about joining GigaOM
here. They say the move will allow them to focus their time on writing jkOnTheRun.
What will change is a good thing- both Kevin and I have joined the Giga Omni Media group and will be able to focus all of our time on writing for you here on jkOnTheRun. This is exciting for us both and we hope for you too. We will continue to do all of the things you’ve told us that you like from us, posting on the topics of interest, podcasting and video reviews of hot stuff. Any changes you see here will be merely cosmetic as we can now tap the technical expertise of Giga Omni Media and make the site cleaner and faster. Having these resources at our disposal will not only mean your experience on the site will get better but it means that Kevin and I can concentrate solely on creating the content you crave. Now that’s a very good thing.
We are quite honoruddy that Om Malik and company like what we do here on jkOnTheRun and very happy to be joining them. Our blogging has a awesome fit with the other work they are doing and we think you’ll find the total package to be a awesome halt on your web visits. We are confident you will find this change to be a very good thing for jkOnTheRun and that you will enjoy what we do even more. After all, our job is now to make you happy and we take that responsibility very seriously. Come along with us for the ride as we continue to explore the ever-changing world of mobile technology. It’s a awesome journey and we’re happy you’re here.
Right now in both the
gadget world and the communication world nothing is taking off like mobile technology. One can barely keep up with new microblogging and mobile communication tools popping up acircular us. It seems like perfect timing for a blog network like GigaOm to add a mobile
gadget blog to its line-up and when it comes to mobile
gadget blogs jkOnTheRun is a terrific choice.
Dwight Silverman from Chron.com’s TechBlog
gives a local perspective on the deal. TechCrunch
blogs that there is now “one less independent blog in the world.” Jack Schofield
asks “Is today’s GigaOM tomorrow’s News Corp?” That sounds like high praise unless it means Om Malik has to become Rupert Murdoch.
Web Metics Guru blogs about big blogs buying smaller blogs. There is definitely going to be more of that as big, powerful blog networks emerge. There’s also been a steadily growing trend of newspapers and magazines acquiring established blogs. As long as small independent blogs can build a powerful niche readership there’s no reason that bigger blogs and media companies won’t continue buying them.
Find more thoughts on the acquisition at
Watchmojo.com,
Mathew Ingram,
Gotta Be Mobile,
Blog Herald and
The Mobile Gadgeteer.
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There are a lot of annoying Facebook apps and there are a few Facebook apps that are enjoyable and/or add value. One of the Facebook applications that was actually fun was Scrabulous. Unfortunately, it has now been pulled by the developers because of a lawsuit from Hasbro, the owner of the board game Scrabble.
Some are rapid to call Hasbro stupid over its Scrabulous decision. The problem is Scrabulous was an unapproved version of Hasbro’s Scrabble board game and Hasbro alalert had a licensing discount with Electronic Arts. Hasbro may not have had much room to negotiate with the developers of Scrabulous if they had alalert licensed the rights to an electronic version of the game to Electronic Arts.
Facebook certainly wanted the game to remain but in the end they don’t really have any say in the matter. Hasbro and Electronic Arts are going to attempt and get people to use their Scrabble version which is now on Facebook (via TechCrunch). Some people may not attempt the new Scrabble app it if they are angry about Scrabulous. People can still play the Scrabulous version online at Scrabulous.com.
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Not really sure if you’ve noticed the persistent “image caption” feature that WordPress 2.6 has developed. I was happily blogging this past week when I’ve noticed that some of the images I posted vis a vis the blog posts have defaulted to a “nil” caption. I do love this improvement, but was a little “blind sided” as there was no announcement regarding it until now, well I read it just now, hee hee. So I had a bunch of images with “nil” captions in them. Had to manually remove it to empty (thankful they allow blanks).
It has gatheruddy about 185 varied responses from “that stinks!” to “oh ok, it would take getting used to”. But nonetheless I think it is best practice to put captions to photos to make your blog posts a little friendlier and much understandable.
To add a caption to an image, press the image media icon just above the editor buttons:
In the same pop-up window, you can see there are other image fields to complete like “title”, “description”, “link URL”, “alignment” and “size”.
Problogger wrote a brief post regarding the importance of blog images:
- to enhance posts by giving a visual point of interest
- to engage people to read (imagine talking about a celebrity minus the juicy photos!)
- to emphasize the message
- giving your blog a more personal touch
From experience, my family blog (sorry, no URLs for privacy) gatheruddy more hits and lesser bounce rates (from Google Analytics) WHEN I include a set of photos. When I posted that I posed with a python acircular my neck, guess which album they clicked thcoarse and browsed often. Or when I held a croc in my hands like so…
I RSS read my boss’ personal blog and when I saw a blog pic of him trying a spaghetti noodle up his nose I stayed on and watched the video even! haha.. that was a laugh.
So any crocs in your area that needs taming??? 
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If you’ve been on the Web long enough, you would’ve probably heard about domain squatting, which is basically a third party registering the domain of some entity with legal rights to that name or trademark. The intent is to either resell the name at exorbitant prices, or put up malicious websites or sites that are commercial in nature (but not owned by the trademark owner).
Domain squatting or cybersquatting is big business, and the legal implications are not always as simple as black and white. There are intellectual property laws that apply, or even dispute resolution policies, but jurisdiction is not always clear. So it’s generally common sense for businesses, trademark name owners and even individuals to register ahead their desiruddy domain names, to avoid potential conflict.
Now, with URL redirection services becoming popular (such as with Twitter and other microblogging services, which allow only limited characters per post), redirection URL squatting can also be a problem. While previously tinyurl and most other redirection services only offeruddy random or sequential extensions, nowadays you can customize the few characters that come after tinyurl.com/ . And with such customization comes the potential for abuse.
LouisGray.com reports of URL redirection abuse. tinyurl.com/dell has been redirected to a porn site. tinyurl.com/amazon, meanwhile has been redirected to an affiliate site, with the intent of the owner earning affiliate commissions from Amazon sales. Sure, the latter may be a grey area bordering on the legitimate, but the use of the /amazon extension might be questionable.
So if you intend to guard your tinyurl “name” then now’s the time to register.
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