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- One year anniversary of Digital Markets blog
- Today marks Donna Bogatins first anniversary blogging for ZDNet. With more than 1300 posts on her Digital Markets blog, she has covered the waterfront on emerging trends and the people at the heart of the business Internet, and has become the thorn in Googles side with her continuous exploration...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Google Gadget Designer still sucks
- When it was first launched last June, I wasnt a huge fan of the Google Gadget Designer -- it seemed to defy all convention when it came to user experience. Properties werent sorted alphabetically, tabs had to be closed through an awkward menu item, and several other things. The...
- Tags: Usability, Google Gadgets, Google Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Did you hear the one about how Google Apps doesn't compete with Microsoft (from Google's CEO)? Guffaw.
- Theres a side to Googles applications -- hencetoforth referred to as Google Apps -- that most bloggers and critics have never seen or bothered to even try to see Ill explain in a moment. Most of them have simply gone to something like Google Docs the word processor or Google...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management, Image Gallery, General, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Google Apps customers await email migration tool
- Kari Barlow hasnt had any complaints about using Google Apps for Education, but is waiting for an email migration tool to finish her move out of the student email business. Barlow, assistant vice president at the Arizona State Universitys technology...
- Tags: Web Technology, Office 2.0, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Google: We spent $597 million on IT in a quarter
- Google spent the majority of $597 million in first quarter capital expenditures on IT infrastructure, including data centers, servers and networking equipment. Google delivered pro forma earnings of $3.68 a share handily beating Wall Street estimates of $3.30 in the first quarter....
- Tags: Search, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Google earnings crib sheet: What to expect
- Google will report first quarter earnings later today with a conference call at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Heres a look at what to expect and key issues: Earnings and revenue: Wall Street is expecting first quarter earnings per share of $3.30 on...
- Tags: Yahoo, Google, General, Web Technology, Search
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- How much openness does the market demand?
- The aim of every companys open source strategy is to maximize its user base and, in the end, its revenue base.So how much openness do you require? Sometimes, if your brand rocks, just a little is enough.Today, for instance, we learn that AutoDesks MapGuide Open Source has been adopted as...
- Tags: mass market, Google, General, content, Applications, Strategy, Microsoft, management, Internet, business models
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Google TV ads debuts
- "We think a lot of the principles of the Internet can be applied to the TV business," so says Keval Desai, Googles director of product management for TV advertising, in touting a deal with EchoStar Communications Corp. to broker a portion of the ads shown to its satellite TV Dish...
- Tags: TV, Television, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Skrenta vs. King Google, sometimes
- Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO, Topix.net, has been all over the Google map this first quarter 2007.He began the year by announcing unequivocaly at his blog: “Google has won both the online search and advertising markets,” and exhorting “All Hail the New King Google.“It seems the Google Kingdom is not...
- Tags: SEARCH, Rich Skrenta, Google Inc., Googles
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- What does Google do? More than search, it positions
- We all know Google does search, but what about the 24 subsidiaries it owns? Many of them aim to support the process of bringing more of your communication within the ambit of Googles search-based advertising business, so ads can be placed in more and more intimate parts of your online...
- Tags: Google Inc., Googles
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Google's search privacy protections strike good balance
- Google is adding search privacy protections and will remove your cookies and IP address after 18 to 24 months. My first reaction: It doesnt go far enough and Google shouldnt be spying on me at all. My second reaction about 10 minutes later: Its a good...
- Tags: Googles, search privacy, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Microsoft publicly bashes Google's Book Scanning project
- Paragraph after paragraph of Google bashing from Microsoft explains why Googles book scanning effort is evil. The problem, as Microsoft sees it, is Googles blatant lack of respect for copyright -- they simply scan every book regardless of its copyright status. Not only that, they also have potential...
- Tags: Google Books, Copyright
- 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
- Will Google's new algorithm coin more money?
- Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck says Googles new AdWords algorithm that changes quality scores could boost the companys first quarter revenue. Why? The biggest change with the quality scores, a topic covered for a while by Donna Bogatin, is that lower...
- Tags: Web Technology, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- How Google falls: Unprofitable in 2009
- Ive been a Google skeptic for a long time. Each"blow-out" quarter reported only increases my scepticism, because every time revenue increases, so do costs. Except for a single critical year, 2005, when the companys momentum drove advertisers to it in droves, costs have increased faster than revenues. In 2006, costs...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Google spends big on IT; earnings shine
- Google spent heavily on information technology in the fourth quarter and sees "significant capital expenditures" ahead in 2007.At least Google can afford it. Fourth quarter results handily topped estimates. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $1.03 billion, or $3.29 a share, on revenue of $3.21 billion. Excluding one-time...
- Tags: Data centers, Google Inc., revenue, Googles, sales, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Latest security hole details
- Tony Ruscoe, the person who found Googles latest vulnerability, goes into detail about how he found the problem, what it would have meant for victims, and exactly how it worked. He explains how a new feature in Blogger was easily exploited to give him access to Philipps Google account."As...
- Tags: Tony Ruscoe, Googles, security
- Blog posts 2007-01-14
- Post-holiday reflections on 2007
- Now that the holidays are over, my mind somewhat cleansed of the constant stream of technology news and blogs washing over me in 2006 by a week in the back woods, a few deposits have lingered, formed into rough crystals that can be admired, examined or discarded. The largest deposit...
- Tags: Googles Google, Google Inc., Utility computing, SaaS, Google, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- The "friction-free" economy never existed
- After Om Malik dismissed my argument against Googles immanence within the Web marketplace with a non-reference to the "friction-free" meme, I figure I should point out that I did not propose that Google will go away. Rather, because the cost of growth and responding to competitors that specialize in niche...
- Tags: Googles, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
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