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- Will Google follow Viacom's lead?
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauds Viacom today for standing up for upfront “fair use” rights of YouTubers.Responding to Viacoms willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Stanford Law Schools...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Google's big, bad risk
- The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...
- Tags: YouTube, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Google upstaged by Microsoft, Yahoo
- Google Phone? What Google phone!Microsoft and Yahoo are announcing a few gadgets with “great pride,” however.How about a Yahoo super charged, new “portable MP3 player set to free you from the USB cable chaining you to your PC, allowing you to listen to personalized radio, download music, share music with...
- Tags: TV, Television, Software, Social Web, Music, Mobile, Microsoft, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Cell Phones, Business Models, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- The new Google risk: Googlers
- As Google Inc. closes in on the ten year anniversary of its founding, top Googlers are finding they may be able to parlay their Google resume into greater fame and/or fortune, outside of the Googleplex.“We are in a wonderful situation that we are able to now in fact increase the...
- Tags: Wall Street, Google, Culture, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Fox News Digital targets mobile advertising growth
- Fox News Mobile is a key component of the Fox News Digital strategy: “Now you can take your Fox News with you wherever you go,” Fox proudly offers. How does Fox News enable a “Fox on the go” strategy? I spoke with Jeremy Steinberg, VP, Digital Media Sales &...
- Tags: advertisement, Fox, mobile marketing
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Digg: Is Kevin Rose on the level?
- What does the future of Digg portend if even perhaps its most ardent supporter fesses up to "spamming" what Kevin Rose calls a “digital media democracy”? In congratulating Rose on its 1,000,000 touted registered Digger, Michael Web 2.0 Arrington takes a bit of the credit himself for helping Digg...
- Tags: Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Blogs, Digg, Business Models, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Google arrogant? Google CEO Eric Schmidt responds
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been making the rounds this week, the Wall Street rounds: Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Monday and Bear Stearns Media Conference in Palm Beach yesterday.I listened attentively to his every keynote words (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion...
- Tags: Profits, Google Apps, Search Advertising, ROI, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Search, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Yahoo HotJobs needs Craigslist to fill hot jobs at Yahoo
- Who says $42 billion market cap Yahoo wishes “free” classifieds Craigslist wasn’t disrupting its HotJobs online recruitment business? In touting its for big fee recruiting services to employers, Yahoo HotJobs proclaims:Yahoo has triple the circulation of the top newspapers! 111 million users who make Yahoo an integral part of...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, Craigslist, Culture, Local, Marketing, Newspapers, Uncategorized, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks
- I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...
- Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?
- IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Social money on your cell: Citi mobilizes financial transactions
- Do you want to Obopay? The mobile person-to-person payment service platform is betting you do, touting a “fast and easy way to make payments using mobile phones.” Citigroup also believes in the potential of Obopay’s “Social Money” solution. Citi financial services company is gearing up to launch a...
- Tags: Social Software, Wireless, Cell Phones, VC, ecommerce, Mobile, Software, Culture, Venture Capital, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- IceBreaker social mobile software: Crush or Flush CEO exclusive interview
- Did you ever want an ice breaker, a mobile one? Crush or Flush to the rescue, a new social mobile service from IceBreaker, Inc., a mobile software company that “helps people stay connected through mobile software that is engaging and easy to use.” What is Crushin’ and Flushin’?Tag...
- Tags: Social Software, Wireless, Cell Phones, Software, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Culture, Usability, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- iStockphoto CEO on Getty Images acquisition: Exclusive interview on one year anniversary
- Got $1.00? Then you can download one of 1,459,000 artist quality, royalty-free images showcased at iStockPhoto.Bruce Livingstone, iStockphoto President and CEO, has been powering “the first, biggest and best community-powered marketplace for value-priced imagery,” since he founded it in April 2000.As of February 2006, Livingston has been powering his photographic...
- Tags: Brands, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Marketing, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, The Real Deal, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Google: Why TV networks will trump YouTube
- It is a mainstream media irony when the very old print media guard characterizes the broadcast old media guard as merely “posturing” before the mighty, inexorable Google. While the “old gray lady” strives to maintain an apparent “balanced” discussion of Viacom and NBC and News Corp. versus Google, Richard...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Google gets defensive, all over the world
- It is a $150 billion market cap irony when perhaps the most powerful company in the world decries the use of our world’s legal system, by others. Earlier today I discussed a legal judgment against Google in Belgium and asked “Will Google pay for content?” Google has acknowledged...
- Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Media, Newspapers
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Mobile social network on a VC shoestring: Exclusive Trilibis CEO interview
- Trilibis Mobile is on a SmartPath, and a financially efficient one. Valentine’s Day eve is a busy time for Trilibis—its Webdate Mobile go-anywhere, flirt-anytime mobile dating service is in high demand --, but Alex Panelli, CEO, made time to share with me today how Trilibis Mobile aims to “revolutionize...
- Tags: Business Models, Culture, Local, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Facebook: 'technology business, not media business'
- When I chatted with Melanie Deitch, Facebook Director of Marketing, last October, I noted my impression that Facebook was confidently pursuing its stand alone social media opportunities regardless of external noise about rumored acquisition offers (see “Facebook talks ‘The Real Deal’ in exclusive interview”). Since that time, Facebook has indeed...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Brands, Business Models, Content, Culture, Facebook, Marketing, Media, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Web 2.0 at IBM, live!
- SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0Interactive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am The blogosphere can indeed be a virtuous circle! Web 2.0 is one of the topics I probe here at this Digital Markets Blog, particularly from a business...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Culture, Blogs, Social Web, Brands, Social Networking, Social Media, IBM, Social Capital, Web
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Google surprise? Google strong-arms government officials
- Just yesterday, I underscored that while Google marches to its own beat proudly and confidently, it is not always a good thing (see “Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC”).Reports are surfacing that Google’s near fanatical obsession of deeming its standard business operations to be of “top secret” status...
- Tags: Business Models, Local, Culture, Legal, Google, Government, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-04
- Craigslist vs. Monster vs. CareerBuilder
- Who says craigslist does not know a thing about economic competition? Craigslist recently risked the ire of its user base by instituting certain posting fees in limited commercial instances. Craigslist is letting the “community” know, however, that it is getting its money’s worth at craigslist.Below is the craiglsist jobs...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Local, Advertising, Culture, Craigslist, User-Generated Content, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, CareerBuilder, Monster
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
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