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A former ZDNet blogger, Donna Bogatin is the founder of online directional media properties VIPOffers.com and UrbanSavings.com. In addition to her own ventures, Donna has been advising companies on Web-based business development since 1997, when she created and led an "Internet For Entrepreneurs" workshop for the Small Business Administration. As...
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- Google Base integrates Google Checkout for 'monster' sales
- I have been discussing Google's end-game for its vertical properties and Google's integration of Google Base listings into Google.com, over the past few days:"Google Base obtains the world's content for free, Google.com capitalizes on it "" Google.com 'refinement boxes': future classifieds 'complete solution'?""Google online dating service: Google Romance for real?...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-11
- Google online dating service: Google Romance for real?
- Google Base is amassing a database of “people profiles.” I discuss a future Google.com classifieds strategy based on Google Base classifieds listings surfacing in Google.com in my "Google.com 'refinement boxes': future classifieds 'complete solution'? " The same analysis applies to Google Base people profile listings; Google is using the free...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-08
- Google Base obtains the world's content for free, Google.com capitalizes on it
- Google Base’s launch last Fall was feared as a “classifieds killer” see my (“Google Base no category killer”) The underwhelming property, however, did not gain user traction, like so many non Google.com efforts.Google is turning “lemons into lemonade” now by using Google Base as a magnet to acquire the world’s...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-08
- Google Base no category killer
- When Google Base launched last year, many believed it would be the ultimate category killer, disrupting eBay, Craiglsist and the multi billion dollar newspaper classifieds advertising business.Data published recently by Hitwise, however, shows the Google Base market share of US Internet visits steadily declining since the beginning of the year....
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Base
- Blog posts 2006-05-20
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- How Google loses in Microsoft Office battle, big time
- How Google loses in Microsoft Office battle, big timeNo credibilityYou lost any and all credibility by including quotes from No axe to grind and John Zern. Both are some of the biggest M$ shills that post here. Using them in an Google bash story is ridiculous.this is getting...
- Tags: Check-out Digital Market, Microsoft Office, No_Ax_to_Grind, No_axe, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- News to know: Microsoft bug disclosure; Apple Airport security; XP SP3; AMD woe
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Responsible disclosure, the Microsoft way.George Ou: Microsoft fights with researcher over Full Disclosure. A tale of two animated cursor attacks.Apple swats Airport Base Station security bugs.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: XP SP3 is still on the schedule for Q1 2008.Microsoft to push fix for patch trouble.Dan Farber: Salesforce.com...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time
- Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big timemore of the sameThis article could easily be called "Why Microsoft IS afraid of Google", and all the same reasoning could be applied.Maybe the author does not like Google, but do we really want to return to a time when Microsoft ruled the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Investment, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-07
- Google: Stingy with click fraud refunds?
- In “Google and click fraud: As wholesome as milk?” in December and “Click Fraud: Is Google fighting the wrong battle?” last month, I dissected and analyzed Shuman Ghosemajumder’s Power Point slide “proof” purporting to demonstrate how click fraud through Google can not be more than a “fraction of one percent”...
- Tags: Google Software Applications, ROI, Gmail, Google, Click Fraud, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Come on down, Google Apps, the price is right
- I think the BBC hit the right note with its headline today on the launch of Google Apps Premier Edition: Google charges for web programs. Today may go down in history as the day when Google started charging for applications. Suddenly, its once again become acceptable to charge customers for...
- Tags: Business applications, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Google Checkout: monetizing the long tail
- How does the newly launched Google Checkout help fend off threats to Google's profitability? When I wrote about those threats last month, I highlighted the opening up of "a new 'long tail' market of advertisers" as "a hugely under-estimated source of profitability" for the search engine and contextual advertising giant....
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Checkout
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
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