Tag Archive: ask

More Blog Icons, Fewer Share Icons

Matt and Rand debate. Are the below icons good for your site or not? Matt says they distract the writer from producing good content. Rand says they can benefit the site by demonstrating that your content is there for the sharing. Rand makes a much more persuasive argument, while including several important caveats.
I’ve been devoting [...]

Buy a company or build it yourself?

Scoble is right to say that Facebook isn’t worth as much as YouTube.
Don’t miss Ballmer’s question here: “[You’ve got to ask] could Google do whatever it is they’re hoping to buy without paying $1.6 billion?” That’s Microsoft’s engineering culture coming through. Clearly Ballmer believes he can build YouTube for less.
The thing is, YouTube is two [...]