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- AP to copyright infringers: Pay up, for news online
- Has the Web's copyright infringement tide turned? A very "old media" company is taking the digital copyright protection lead, big time.When I met with Jim Brock, CEO of stealth-mode start-up Attributor, in New York City earlier this month, he shared with me his vision for mapping, tracking and assisting in appropriately...
- Tags: Content, Copyright, Media, Newspapers
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers?
- Facebook is on a mainstream media roll!The New York Times was the "lucky" media vehicle to tease a Facebook classifieds "Craigslist and newspapers killer" ten days ago; Today, the other "newspaper of record," The Wall Street Journal gets its turn to tease the latest and supposedly greatest Facebook "game changer,"...
- Tags: Yahoo, Newspapers, Facebook, Craigslist
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- What Microsoft Yahoo merger? WSJ vs. NY Post
- Google beware: Does Microsoft lust for Yahoo?So claimed the New York Post, courtesy of unidentified “sources,” in a touted EXCLUSIVE.Now, the Wall Street Journal is offering its own unidentified sources, with a different take:Microsoft and Yahoo discussed a possible merger or other matchup that would pair their respective strengths, say...
- Tags: Yahoo, Newspapers, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt
- Poor Google?The outpouring of support for the $150 billion market cap company that is oft cited as the most influential corporation in a generation whenever anyone dares to discuss the fairness, or not, of the business model that fuels its over-sized market returns is as surreal as the very public...
- Tags: Content, Advertising, YouTube, Video, Search, Search Advertising, Newspapers, Media, Google, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Billionaire Zell to Google: Show me the money
- "If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?" Samuel Zell observed during a Stanford Law School appearance this week, the Washington Post reports.The seasoned real estate investor, and newly minted investor in the news business, is cited as...
- Tags: Newspapers, Media, Marketing, Google, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- Google searches for TV ad dollars
- Google is extremely confident, in itself. Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes in the “Power Law Distribution,” how it powers Google’s success, in particular. I heard Schmidt proclaim to Bear Stearns earlier this week a Google YouTube invincibility: “With only a small number of online video winners feasible, other players...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Google Search, Google Inc., TV, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-03-10
- 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
- Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?
- In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...
- Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Will Google diversification pay off in 2007?
- Google to shareholders: Google Print Ads, Google Audio Ads and Google Checkout have had no material impact on Google revenues in 2006, 2005, 2004... Google must present an accurate assessment of the financial impact of its products and services in SEC mandated reports. Everywhere else, however, Google apparently is...
- Tags: Advertising, Business Models, Google, Google Checkout, Google Software Applications, Government, Internet Data, Investors, Legal, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Print, Profits, Radio, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Wall Street
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- 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: Is robots.txt really a copyright infringement defense?
- Danny Sullivan headlines “Google loses in Belgium newspaper case,” but nevertheless puts forth in his opening paragraph: “Google may have to pay a fine, but the ruling is far more positive for the company.” How so? He offers paragraph after paragraph of “evidence” for why he concludes that: ...
- Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Newspapers
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- 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
- Will Google pay for content?
- Way back in November I asked “Is Google’s multi-billion dollar free ride over?”Google’s super profit margins are due, in part, to its shrewd, but not content owner friendly, business model by “fair use” and “safe harbor” (see “Google ’safe harbor’: ‘Nice’ way to do business?”)…Google’s $150 billion market cap relies...
- Tags: Advertising, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Google wins big as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battle
- Our American democracy is not the only guaranteed winner in what I am calling the “USER GENERATED POLITICS” campaign 2008. Google is already winning, big time.Last month, I underscored “Google already winner in Clinton presidential bid,” analyzing the Google AdWords keyword bidding race amongst television networks and newspapers to “win”...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Media, Advertising, Search, Google, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search Advertising, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Clinton, Google Inc., Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Citizen Journalist: Do you want to be one?
- At Yahoo’s “You Witness News” everyone is entitled to press credentials, since last December in "alliance" with Reuters:Were you there when news happened? Upload your photos and video here to have them considered for use in articles and features on Yahoo! News.The Associated Press is now "mobilizing" an "army" of...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Citizen Journalism, Social Web, Amateur Content, Social Media, Print, Newspapers, Citizen Journalist
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
Additional Resources
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalismIt's happening everywhere.Nobody wants to be in business or make a transaction unless they make a killing, not just a reasonable profit.I have nothing against making money, but when your greed hurts others, like the Starbucks managers and employees, I think it's time...
- Tags: Retail, Blogging, Investment, Food & Beverage, Starbucks Corp., compassionate capitalism, capitalism, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- MPS-Sudoku 2008 (msi)
- Create and play Sudoku puzzles with 1-, 2-, 3- and 5-grids, or enter puzzles from newspapers and magazines and play on-screen. MPS-Sudoku is not a toy, it's a tool to help you learn to play more effectively. Our superb Assistant feature enables you to learn how to solve Sudoku, rather...
- Tags: Puzzle, LearnToUseComputers, MPS-Sudoku, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Icahn says he can't
- Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can't. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo! apart from Google, in particular, or Facebook and MySpace, along the way, he would have been...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Channel Management, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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