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Andrew Keen is author of Cult of the Amateur: How the democratization of the digital world is destroying our economy, our culture, and our values, which will be published on June 5, 2007 by Currency Books. He is also the founder of afterTV -- the Internet chat show about culture,...
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- Does Eric Schmidt want to sniff the armpits of my mind?
- So Eric Schmidt, the Chauncey Gardiner of Silicon Valley, is at it again. This time, the wise old fool wants to organize my daily life. The Google CEO Chief Eccentric Officer confessed to the Financial Times today:“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Buy Microsoft, buy Yahoo!
- Two things happen in metaphysical economies -- markets in which everything is based on faith & there is no concrete economic reality: Hyped media companies (Broadcast.com, Napster, AOL, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace etc etc) get radically over valued.Media companies valued on traditional economic criteria (Time-Warner, Yahoo & Microsoft) get radically undervalued....
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- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- Google doubleclicks on advertising
- So what does the Google acquisition of Doubleclick tell us?It says that Google isnt an all-you-can-eat restaurant in Mountain View or a do-no-evil NGO or a research department of Stanford University. It isnt even a search engine. No. Google is a remarkably profitable business that is cornering the market for...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identity
- In this mornings Financial Times, Thomas Rubin, Microsoft Associate General Council for Intellectual Property, suggests that authors wont benefit from Googles ambition to scan all the texts in the world and create a "vast online database of indexed content". Rubin is right, of course. But theres a second and even...
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- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Yes Donna, Google is overrated
- Donna Bogatin is right -- Google is indeed overrated. In her Fast Company debate with Google apologist Danny Sullivan, Donna argues that the Mountain View based leviathan is not a "well-rounded" company. Donna is being excessively polite here. The truth is that Google is as "unrounded" as a Roman road....
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- Blog posts 2007-03-01
Additional Resources
- LiveJournal acquired by Russian company SUP
- While some will inevitably see this as Six Apart offloading its aging blogging platform and original social network, LiveJournal which the company acquired less than three years ago, the deal makes a whole lot of sense, and serves as a reminder that the Web is a world wide business not...
- Tags: LiveJournal, SUP, Blogging, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Social Networking, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
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