Turns out that big story they’re running over at Valleywag today about Zynga scamming on Haitian children? Completely untrue: Social games publisher Zynga has confirmed with us that it did not keep 50 percent of its earthquake relief donations meant for Haiti. The response follows a post from SocialMediaToday this morning (which has since been removed, but you can view a screenshot here) that claimed ...

You should go to the event and then riot if I don’t win the grand prize.

This is totally ridiculous, but it completely works. Art Lindsey sent me this, of all people, but you hafta try it. 1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 - Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3  -couldn’t get...

I’ve been in and out of affiliate marketing here and there for as long as it’s been on the web (though I really don’t identify as an affiliate marketer).  For the most part, affiliate marketing is a dismal failure for the type of audiences I attract, mostly because most of them have ad blindness, and they’re just not all that likely to go buying stuff on my affiliate code out of the goodness...

I found this in Mike Elgin’s Raw Feed. I’m sorry – but if you’re in a gang called Original Young Gangsters, even if you go shoot someone over what they said on Twitter, you’re neither Original nor Gangster.  You’re just young.

I’m just about sick of the attitude from some folks sitting in the anti-paid tweet category. In general, I’m fine with the debate as it sits in the philosophical realm of “is this good or is this bad.”  I’m fine with the head on debates where beliefs of what’s fine or not are challenged. When a clear display of ignorance is made by someone who should know better, also accompanied...

More and more, I get the impression that the folks running the show at Google’s YouTube are incompetent boobs. Over at Engadget: YouTube pulls a Hulu -- yanking API access from Popcorn Hour (Update: Google responds) Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen via Popcorn Hour and other set-top boxes, as they have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly...

… is that people don’t always want to hear you. Take for instance my post today on Google Chrome. One of the primary posts I was responding to was from Ben Parr, who is the last holdout who believes that Google’s going after Microsoft on this Chome OS thing. I got 11 tweets (as of a few minutes ago).  Not shabby for a Friday, particularly on a topic where the market’s pretty saturated. ...

Chris Brogan wrote Friday, I think it was, about how Twitter’s Lists are a way of resurrecting the “A-List,” and while they’re cool and useful have an exclusionary effect on people. I just took a look into creating my first ever Twitter list. I’m listed on over 1500 at this writing, so I figured I’d give it a go. Immediately, I realized what I’m not going to like about them: they will...

DARPA’s doing a challenge that’s just up my alley.  Well, the alley that you and I are on. Check this out: “To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope,...