Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect
Saturday, May 10th, 2008MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
Announcing Facebook Connect
Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
I won’t pretend to know too much about these programs, but I will say this — the business development divisions of Google, Myspace, and Facebook are going to be working overtime recruiting partners […]
Google’s Renewable Energy Initiative
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007How does Google’s renewable energy iniative announced yesterday help Google achieve their mission to organize the world’s information? I agree with Spencer (my bosses’ boss) — it doesn’t.
Not exactly core to their mission of making all the world’s information accessible, nor core to their business plan of making money through advertising.
That’s not to say that […]
How Long has Google Accepted Comments on Their Blogs?
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007I was just reading this post (which I found on Techmeme) on the Google Public Policy Blog — and realized there were comments! I didn’t think any google blogs allowed comments??
How long ago did they open it up?
“Search Is History” - says Yahoo!
Monday, June 4th, 2007Man, I must say it’s kinda cool when Yahoo! says almost exactly what I wrote last week on my blog — search is becoming LESS relevant (Yahoo says it’s history). I agree that the web is going to be almost completely personalized for the end user. Even Google agrees. Users are already determining their own […]
Big News Day: StumbleUpon, Last.fm, Mahalo, and Google
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Damn, what a day in the tech world. Lots of big news, including two fairly large acquistions of web 2.0 companies.
Last.fm (which is an awesome application by the way) was bought by CBS for $280 million. I agree with Fred that it could prove to be a real bargain a couple years from now as […]
It Sure is a Great Time to be in the Internet Industry (especially if you’re a developer)
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I thought this was an interesting article in the New York Times titled “In Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to Feed Hiring Machine.”
This quote by Alice Yu-shan Chang (successfully recruited by Google) was easy for me to relate to:
Being in an environment where you are going to learn a lot is the most important […]
The Complete Small Business Solution — The Potential of a Google - Salesforce Alliance
Monday, May 21st, 2007There is lots of talk on Techmeme about a possible Salesforce - Google alliance against Microsoft. First of all, let me say that I have no idea whether Google will buy Salesforce or not — I would guess a big part of that would be whether salesforce CEO Marc Benioff would sell the company. However, […]
Banner Advertising versus Keyword Advertising
Monday, April 16th, 2007So, Google purchased DoubleClick for $3.1 BILLION (jeez, that is a lot of money) to give Google an instant, major foothold in online display advertising. This tells me one thing: keyword advertising is not the only online advertising game in town. Evidence of this is the fact that others in the industry (Microsoft) think […]
My Take on Google’s Acquisition of DoubleClick
Friday, April 13th, 2007BRILLIANT! Yeah, I know everyone has already written about this, so I won’t bore you. Go read all the chatter on Techmeme.
Here’s the post on Google Blog
Enhancements to Google Talk
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Google Talk has added some enhancements, which I think are pretty cool (take a look at What’s New). The two really interesting additions are 1) Flickr integration and 2) a web-based Google talk module. I just added a link to open the Gmail chat module in a browser window to the bottom of my sidebar. […]
Google Ventures into CPA (Pay-Per-Action) Advertising
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007My gosh, there are tons of people writing about this already (here’s the post on the Inside Adwords blog) — it’s dominating Techmeme.
Since I’m late to the game, I’ll keep this short. What does Google entering the CPA market (Pay-Per-Action) mean? It means publishers have the option to pay ONLY for completed actions on their […]
Can Quigo Beat the Internet Giants in Contextual Text Ads?
Monday, February 26th, 2007The New York Times has a great article about Quigo Technologies, a company I didn’t know existed even though they now serve the text ads on ESPN.com. Here’s a bit about Quigo -
Founded in 2000, Quigo provides innovative, performance-based marketing solutions that achieve superior results for premium-branded websites and advertisers. ROI-based solutions for content-targeted advertising […]
Major Google Announcement??
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007If the single-source rumor of a Google announcement tomorrow is true, what do you think it is??
It would sure be sweet if it was one of the things I mentioned in my Google analysis the other day…
If I Were the CEO of Google, This would be My Strategy…
Thursday, February 15th, 2007Since I had so much fun with my first “If I were the CEO” post, I thought I’d try my hand at it again…this time with Google. The difference is I’m guessing that the Google founders won’t come comment on this post (whereas the MyBlogLog ones did). This one is a little shorter than my […]
YouTube’s Founders — Now Young Multi-Multi-Multi Millionaires
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007WOW, talk about a payout - YouTube’s founders are SUPER rich now — between their founders and Sequoia Capital, 3.23 MILLION shares of Google are to be sold (currently $470.01 per share).
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave?
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Entering the internet time period that people will call Web 3.0 is inevitable, but the specifics of what web 3.0 is or will include is up for debate. There have been a number of articles written about Web 3.0 since Tim O’Reilly’s web 2.0 article in 2005- see here, here, and here. BUT instead of […]
JotSpot Sells to Google
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006JotSpot, one of the leaders in the Wiki space, was sold to Google. This was covered on a wide variety of blogs, including Battelle’s SearchBlog, Scobleizer, Mashable, TechCrunch, and A VC. I was actually very surprised to hear this one- having watched the video on the ScobleShow where Joe Kraus talked a bit about his vision […]
John Battelle Keynote
Friday, October 27th, 2006John Battelle, who runs Federated Media Publishing and is enamored with blogs (he runs SearchBlog), search, and media, gave a Superb keynote presentation. My notes are below-
I thought it was interesting that Battelle mentioned that Web 2.0 was partly due to the notion that people started creating companies based on passion rather than commerce (amazing what happens […]
Future of MyBlogLog - Targeted Advertising
Thursday, October 19th, 2006TechCrunch wrote about MyBlogLog today…is this a sign there is loads of potential in MyBlogLog? If you’re like me- you probably see it. Did anyone else catch on to this quote in the post?
Analytics leveraging user demographics are the next level things can be taken, the company told me. That’s something that the big social networking […]
The Failure of Friendster
Sunday, October 15th, 2006The New York Times wrote a fairly detailed article that takes a look at Friendster that was published today. I actually wasn’t aware of the fact that Google offered to buy Friendster for $30 million- just imagine if Jonathan Abrams had accepted that offer. Abram’s would probably be a billionaire (in google stock) and Friendster would have had access to […]
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