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Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Mortgage upheaval could ding online advertising

The mortgage industry is in a shambles as the credit market unravels amid bad subprime mortgages. That's part of the reason why the stock market has been plunging of late. What does that development have to do with online advertising? Potentially a lot. Nielsen/Netratings delivered its July traffic recap on...

Tags: NexTag, Mortgage, Online Advertising, Advertiser, Mortgage Industry, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Prediction: Diller/IAC InterActive Corp. will buy Twitter

Prediction: Diller/IAC InterActive Corp. will buy TwitterGoogle probably will buy TwitterTwitter is from Evan Williams and Biz Stone, so it's only natural that, like Blogger, Google will buy it. I wonder if Evhead and Biz the Genius could spot me a coolhunting hunnerd thou.Twitter is Fastlane Communication, Link Sharing, and...

Tags: Interactive Corp., Twitter

Discussion threads 2007-05-05

Who will buy Twitter? You may be surprised at the answer

Before you snicker, I have to tell you that this comes from the same guy who predicted Google as a likely acquirer of YouTube.I think it likely that all-the-rage, super hot and hip mobile messaging platform Twitter will be acquired. This will take place by the end of this year,...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Additional Resources

Comcast plus NBC Universal creates a Web juggernaut

If Comcast did manage to gain control of NBC Universal it would be have an aggregation of Web sites that would make it a top 10 player in comScore's top 50 rankings. According to CNBC, General Electric is talking to Comcast about a deal that would spin...

Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Web, Comcast Corp., Talks, Channel Management, Asset Management, Networking, Marketing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Is Barry Diller delusional?

Here's chapter 120 of Barry Diller's "people will and should pay for online content" tour. But I have a nagging question: Why exactly are we still listening to Diller? First, here's the video of Diller rapping with Katie Couric. The refrain sounds familiar: Pay for online content...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-29

TV's future: the partnerships are forming now

In just the last few days, there were a few news announcements that, separately, were kind of ho-hum. But together, it appears that the stars are suddenly starting to align for the next generation of television, one that's more of an on-demand Internet-based experience, instead of a schedule-driven feed from...

Tags: Partnership, TiVo Inc., Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Rupert Murdoch: Worst over; MySpace exec changes will regain momentum

News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch says it "is increasingly clear that the worst is over" for the economy and ad market. Meanwhile, Murdoch said that the executive changes at MySpace will restore the site's momentum, make the site "more attractive" and deliver more ad friendly inventory.  Murdoch---speaking...

Tags: Advertisement, Rupert Murdoch, MySpace, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-06

IAC in talks to buy Yahoo Personals

IAC/InterActive Corp. chief Barry Diller said the company is in talks to buy Yahoo Personals to augment its Match.com business.  The comments were made on IAC's first quarter conference call Techmeme. Here's what Diller said: We are very interested. We'd love to have Yahoo! Personals and...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Moody's Bottom Rung list includes AMD, Clearwire, Palm, Unisys; Media default Armageddon

Moody's has released its "Bottom Rung" list of companies that have a high risk of default and weak liquidity and there are a few technology and telecom household names on the list including AMD, Clearwire, Palm and Unisys. Media companies are the biggest chunk of companies on the verge of...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Palm Inc., Media, Clearwire Corp., Moody's Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Telephony, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Telecommunications, Strategy, Networking, Marketing, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Watch out MySpace, here comes Rupe

Peter Chernin, chief operating officer of News Corp., will step down as of June 30. The big question is what will happen to Fox Interactive Media--mostly known as MySpace--now that Chernin is gone.  The key paragraph in News Corp.'s statement on Chernin's departure is this one Techmeme:...

Tags: Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Will News Corp.'s bigger worries cause MySpace to be passed by Facebook?

Media conglomerate News Corp. said today that it's continuing to feel the pinch of the economy and, like many other industries, is finding its impact to be more severe than once expected.  For its second quarter, the company reported an adjusted net loss of $6.4 billion, or $2.45 per share,...

Tags: Facebook, News Corp., MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Inauguration pass or fail? Social network, streaming video report card

Countless people took to the Internet today to live stream the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. I wrote yesterday about some skepticism over whether or not the social networks and streaming video sites would hold up during one of their most highly trafficked days....

Tags: Card, Facebook, Network, Streaming Video, Video, Twitter, CNN, Ustream, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Web Site Development, Internet, Digital Video, Web Technology, Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Is Apple pricing itself out of education?

Is Apple pricing itself out of education?Apple is destinedto remain a niche 'elite' market player.o Their O/S is proprietary, o Their iPOD is proprietary,o Their iPhone is proprietary,o Their Mac is proprietary,o Their Hardware is proprietary and locked to their O/S.Apple has essentially 'locked' itself into a limited market for...

Tags: Desktops, pricing strategy, Apple Inc., education, Microsoft Windows NT, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Facebook: Will you go for its latest ad plan?

Facebook, which is reportedly being outhustled on ad sales by MySpace, is rolling out a new model to advertisers. The aim: Get you to interact with an ad. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook introduced the ads in August and is now rolling it out to...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, MySpace, Advertiser, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?

Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-01

MindTouch Case Study: IdeaPark

IdeaPark is an interactive marketing agency in Minneapolis which creates websites and customized email campaigns for diversified clients such as Pillsbury, First Data Corp and Vidal Sassoon. Ideapark needed a platform-agnostic solution. Finally, with different levels of technical expertise among the team members it needed a solution that everyone could...

Tags: Team, Team Member, Need, MindTouch, IdeaPark, Team Management, E-mail, Management, Online Communications

Case studies 2008-07-25

Interactive Data Uses TeamQuest to Stay One Step Ahead of Performance Constraints

Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, a division of Interactive Data Corp., uses TeamQuest Performance Software to monitor system performance across the enterprise, to generate Web-based performance reports, and to be certain that systems will provide adequate capacity in the future. In short, it uses TeamQuest software to ensure its...

Tags: Performance, TeamQuest Corp., It Management, It service Management

Case studies 2008-07-15

News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Data Portability: The Microsoft angle

MySpace unveiled on May 8 yet another industry initiative to allow users and developers to share their social-networking data -- a goal Microsoft also has in its sights. The first partners announcing their participation in MySpace's Data Portability initiative include Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-08