Get out that iTunes gift card, Pitchfork has selected their top picks for 2008. I just found Flying Lotus, which is spectacular for background music while working. The future of hip-hop some call it. FL is related to Alice Coletrane.
Good TechCrunch overview of how Google and Facebook may win the Comment Wars. This upsets me on several levels. If we had a decent centralized comment management system I could easily link to the comments I’ve left at Disqus, TC and other places. Someday this will be possible. For now, we wait for FB and Google to grow up and make nice.
VentureBeat says that Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue.
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) says Twitter has produced $1 million in revenue over the past year and a half through sale alerts. People who sign up to follow Dell on Twitter receive messages when discounted products are available the company’s Home Outlet Store. They can click over to purchase the product or forward the information to others.
I think corporate accounts will pay for millions of free users, along with the usual ads thrown in once they figure that out. Targeted ads should be pretty straightward to implement.
I just left a comment on TechCrunch after signing in via Facebook. Very cool, although I have to go check the FB privacy settings to make sure TC doesn’t spam my wall. I’m installing Google FriendConnect on one of my other blogs today to see how that works.