What's it cost to make a website?

That's the question posed by a new Ad Age article (subscription required) (h/t iab)--and my days at Saatchi confirms what's in this report. Figuring out how much a website or a microsite or even a rich media ad unit should cost is like reading tea leaves--there's a lot of hocus pocus involved.

Not enough porn on the Internet

So says Mark Cuban anyway...well actually he's being more specific than that--it's not the whole internet but YouTube that he's got the porn problem with. It's funny to see a guy who created one of the first YouTubes and fail at it (though make tons of money in the process), critique YouTube...a site that for all it's problems is doing okay--and best of all: it works.

GeoSmart is helping us academics

and boy it sounds cool! according to geekzone, they're gonna be giving away their web cartography tools to academic and non-commercial use--which is great news.

A Mobile App that works!

NZers now can get flight info pretty much instantly using their mobiles. Which is a good and useful thing, though it does cost money (50 cents a pop)...but oh well, at least it's useful.