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Google CEO tows Google line at D5

Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have had closing honors at the D5 All Things Digital Conference in San Diego, but he didn't seize the moment to break new Google ground.By all reports, Schmidt offered his standard conference circuit pitch.1) On allegations of "massive copyright infringement" aka Viacom $1 billion dolllar lawsuit.Schmidt: "We follow...

Tags: Google, CEO Interviews

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Google AdSense move over? Ecommerce meets contextual ad network in Tumri Publisher

Does integrated online advertising and merchandising bring to mind “a romantic song set to light classical music”?Tumri Inc, named after the Indian Thumri genre of music, is aiming to build the world’s first online merchandising network and hopes its new Tumri Publisher launched today will be music to Web publishers’...

Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, ecommerce, CEO Interviews, Business Models, Advertising, AdSense

Blog posts 2007-05-07

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

Mpire online shopping mashup for $144 billion eCommerce opportunity: CEO interview

Did you ever wish you could visit all the best shopping sites rolled into one? eBay, Amazon, Overstock, Yahoo, Shopping.com, Craigslist…and more in one place? Mpire.com metasearch and pricing analytics engine proclaims wish no more. The shopping “mashup” which launched last June debuts today an enhanced “universal shopping experience”...

Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, CEO Interviews, ecommerce, Marketing, Metrics, Search, Search Advertising, Software, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Google due for a fall? Donna Bogatin debates Danny Sullivan

IS GOOGLE OVERRATED? TAPPED OUT? DUE FOR A FALL?Fast Company Magazine invited "two experts" to take sides:Donna Bogatin and Danny Sullivan HIGHLIGHTSBogatin: Googles search stallion has driven GOOG to a 400%-plus appreciation in just two years. Googles stock price is not sustainable long term, and neither is its domination in...

Tags: Advertising, Blogs, Brands, CEO Interviews, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-02-16

GoFish CEO + Bolt CEO: Moving advertising from TV to Internet, Exclusive Interview

Michael Downing, co-founder and CEO of GoFish, and Aaron Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Bolt Media, are enthusiastically looking forward to jointly growing a billion streams “made for Internet programming” advertising supported business, and they shared their enthusiasm with me this morning. In a New York-San Francisco conference call...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Advertising, CEO Interviews, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, TV, Television, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Social Capital, GoFish, Michael Downing

Blog posts 2007-02-12

Jim Lanzone's vision for Ask.com: 'Real Deal' Interview

Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, has taken to extolling the IAC search engine property Ask.com as the “connecting glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of diverse Web properties and services.Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, however, prefers to see himself operating as a “chef” remixing content ingredients to create a better search experience for...

Tags: Business Models, Local, Usability, Advertising, Search, Google, Blogs, CEO Interviews, Internet Data, Brands, Marketing, The Real Deal, ROI, Metrics, Ask.com, AskX strategy

Blog posts 2007-01-10

Craig on craigslist, one more time

In "Craigslist: Paid classifieds killer, or impetus for more lucrative classifieds business," I put forth that:It is not for Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, or any member of the craigslist community, to worry about “feelings” within the newspaper industry, or about the future of the newspaper industry. Rather, it is the...

Tags: ecommerce, Self-Promotion, Amateur Content, Social Web, Yellow Pages, CEO Interviews, Craigslist, eBay, User-Generated Content, Culture, Citizen Journalism, Local, Business Models

Blog posts 2006-12-14

Gotuit for video your way: Do-it-yourself VOD programming

Mark Pascarella is on a video entertainment mission. CEO of Gotuit Media, Pascarella believes viewers should be able to quickly access the parts of a video they are most interested in watching, on-demand.Gotuit seeks to “radically change how people consume on-demand content," by making Video On Demand VOD more than...

Tags: ROI, Television, TV, YouTube, Video, VC, Venture Capital, CEO Interviews, Google, Advertising, Media, Business Models

Blog posts 2006-12-10

Google Audio Ads EXCLUSIVE: Radio station owner 'Real Deal' interview

Jack Taddeo, a radio industry veteran, expressed concerns to me about Google’s entry into radio advertising, particularly the Google dMarc impact on independent radio stations.Taddeo operates a radio station in the mid-west and leads Jack Taddeo Communications, a consultancy to the radio industry.I spoke at length with Taddeo about how...

Tags: advertisement, Google Software Applications, Radio, Media, Advertising, Google, CEO Interviews, Marketing, Business Models, Local

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Want to be a sales genius?

Genius.com co-founder & CEO David Thompson is on a sales mission: Help sales people sell, better.A marketing veteran of WebEx Communications, Thompson knows what it takes to make a sale online and he is applying that knowledge for the benefit of all sales people with the “on demand, real time,...

Tags: Enterprise, CEO Interviews, Marketing, Genius, sales

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Blip.tv vs. YouTube? Founder talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview

Blip.tv is not a blip in online video.I chatted at length with Mike Hudack, co-founder and CEO, today about how blip.tv came to be and where it is headed.Blip.tv has a simple tag line that encapsulates its straightforward mission: “a great service for great shows.” Hudack and his four...

Tags: YouTube Inc., video, Mike Hudack, advertisement, Blip.tv

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Additional Resources

SAP and Oracle going head to head

This week gives SAP and Oracle watchers an opportunity to see these giants go head to head in the entertainment stakes as each holds major conferences. SAP is in Phoenix with TechEd while Oracle takes over the Moscone Center and a lot of the surrounding area...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's 5% stake worth $283 million

Time Warner on Monday said that it bought back Google's 5 percent stake in AOL for $283 million. The deal, disclosed in regulatory filings, was part of a series of disclosures to set in motion Time Warner's spin-off of AOL as an independent company. In 2005, Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, America Online Inc., Agreement, Master Plan, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-27

AOL's Armstrong: Dial-up matters (a lot)

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is doing his 100-day barnstorming tour and sitting down for interviews as the company prepares for life as an independent entity. Based on interviews with PaidContent, BoomTown and Silicon Alley Insider, Armstrong has a lot of work to do, believes in content (especially...

Tags: America Online Inc., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse talks Palm Pre deals

Maggie Reardon interviews Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about the Palm Pre and breaks exclusive news that the Palm Pre could be exclusive to Sprint longer than six months.

Tags: Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Maggie Reardon, News, Dan Hessee, Sprint, Nextel, CEO, Palm Pre, exclusive

Videos 2009-06-05

Two BPM interviews that show how robust custom development still is

A Bright Light in High Tech Nice to see a tech sector bucking the economy I recently conducted two different interviews on the BPM business process management space. One of these was with Phil Gilbert, President of Austin-based, Lombardi Software and the other...

Tags: Lombardi Software Inc., BPM, ERP, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?

If a company with 8 percent market share revamped its search engine would anyone notice? That's the looming question as Microsoft prepares to unveil its search upgrade at the D: All Things Digital conference next week.  John Paczkowski writes: The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft’s search engine...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conference, John Paczkowski, Search, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-20

MySpace names Facebook VP Van Natta as CEO

News Corporation today announced the appointment of Owen Van Natta to the role of MySpace Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Van Natta will be based in Los Angeles and report directly to Jonathan Miller, News Corporation’s CEO of Digital Media and Chief Digital Officer. ...

Tags: Facebook, News Corp., MySpace, CEO, Corporate Governance, Investment, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-24