http://www.dotcult.com Ryan Jones Blogs About Internet Culture, Marketing, Startups & SEO Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:02:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an effort to try to boost failing state economies, many states are starting to look for legal loopholes that would allow them to tax online purchases. Take Rhode Island and North Carolina for example. Frustrated with not being able to tax Amazon.com purchases, the states introduced legislation ... http://www.dotcult.com/more-companies-should-follow-amazons-lead If you've just recently updated your iPhone to version 3.0 of the iPhone software you may have noticed that the apple Tunes remote application has stopped working. When I updated, attempting to open the remote application would instantly cause it to crash. I quickly looked to see if ... http://www.dotcult.com/how-to-make-iphone-remote-work-on-os30 Scoble and I started a discussion this morning about how a majority of twitter followers are useless (and about how Robert has a big ego.) Scoble's ego, the echo chamber, and how people in the valley live in their own world is a topic I'd love to discuss, but ... http://www.dotcult.com/why-twitter-bots-are-effective There's a ton of fear mongering going on right now in the blogosphere about the FTC's plans to monitor blogs for claims. A lot of bloggers are worried about what this ruling might mean for them and fearful that it could harm the industry. I don't think there's anything to ... http://www.dotcult.com/why-the-ftc-blog-monitoring-is-good Online quizzes have always fascinated me - mainly in the sense that so many people take them and actually rely on them to answer more serious questions in their life. It seems like you can find an online quiz for almost anything now. So, with that said, I've ... http://www.dotcult.com/online-quizzes