Digging in the Cache is a series where we go back in time to look at fun tidbits of Internet and computer history. Up this week: The Million Dollar Homepage. We’d all like to earn $1 million on our website, wouldn’t we? Well, Alex Tew did just that. With the world’s ugliest website (yah, that’s the website on the left), which had nothing but ads. How’d he do it? [Read more…] about Digging in the Cache – The Million Dollar Homepage
News & Notes
Building an Ecosystem, Not just a Network of Networks
If you think about it, as business owners, we’re creating a network of networks. We have a community that we’re part of with this group, and we belong to this association, and online we may use Twitter and Facebook and other places to build networks. But how often do these networks work together? What we need to think about it how to create an ecosystem where everything supports everything else. [Read more…] about Building an Ecosystem, Not just a Network of Networks
Using Game Mechanics to Increase Engagement & Participation
One of my favorite discussions at UnGeeked Elite in Chicago was by Tom Tentoglou about Gamification, or adding game mechanics into business in order to increase engagement and participation. Gamification isn’t about building games (necessarily), it’s about using aspects of games that people find enticing. It’s not really news that people are motivated by achieving things (just look at high-powered stock brokers). But these motivations can be added to just about anything to increase participation or encourage people to do things you’d like them to do. [Read more…] about Using Game Mechanics to Increase Engagement & Participation