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- We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it
- Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Google to acquire NBC Universal? Why not!
- Will John Battelle have to eat his Google words, AGAIN?In a typically Battellesque headline today, he responds to Bloomberg reports of calls for a General Electric spin-off of NBC Universal to the Googleplex by declaring: Google-NBC: Very dumb idea.How so? Battelle’s assessment: Analysts are saying that there is...
- Tags: Wall Street, Video, Television, Radio, Profits, Internet Data, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!
- The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, TV, Television, ROI, Profits, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!
- Is Web 2.0 over? I asked last April Fool’s weekend.Today, Om Malik declares the end of Web 2.0 innocence, underscoring Google’s MyMaps launch as a tipping point.Malik: "The Web 2.0 story so far has been about taking APIs, mashups, low cost infrastructure and building applications that are then offered to...
- Tags: Metrics, Google, Web 2.0, Search Advertising, Profits, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Google clients 'frustrated' by unprofitable AdWords buys
- Buyers of Google AdWords are “becoming increasingly frustrated,” so says the Googler that started the first Google inside sales team in 2003, Adam Goldberg. Goldberg helped build the Google inside sales team to a $500 million dollar a year organization by touting the marketing ROI of spends on AdWords’...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Profits, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Brands, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Google: Internet bubble 2.0?
- In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter, “There you go again.” Henry Blodgett and Mary Meeker are “going again” with exuberant cheerleading for an Internet darling. Which is the “lucky” public company getting the Blodgett-Meeker props this Web 2.0 go around? The...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Search, Google, Blogs, Video, YouTube, ROI, Wall Street, Profits
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- 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
- Google arrogant? Google CEO Eric Schmidt responds
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been making the rounds this week, the Wall Street rounds: Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Monday and Bear Stearns Media Conference in Palm Beach yesterday.I listened attentively to his every keynote words (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion...
- Tags: Profits, Google Apps, Search Advertising, ROI, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Search, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Why Google will never pay for content
- I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for! Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, Click Fraud, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Video, Wall Street, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Google warns of Microsoft, Yahoo competition
- Google is warning shareholders of the “formidable competition” it faces from both Microsoft and Yahoo. Google considers Microsoft and Yahoo to be its primary competitors, acknowledging in particular that their Internet portals may have a greater ability to attract and retain users than Google does. On the Microsoft...
- Tags: Business Models, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Investors, Legal, Metrics, Microsoft, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Wall Street, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- 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
Additional Resources
- What open source teaches publishers
- I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...
- Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Pet Shop Hop (exe)
- The joys of animal companionship can now be yours to share! For decades your family business has offered pretty fish, cuddly kittens, furry rabbits, adorable puppies, and feathered friends to customers from the neighborhood. Times are changing though, and now MegaPet Superstore is threatening to put you out of business!...
- Tags: Shop, Business, PlayFirst, Times
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Craigslist fires back at eBay; Bogus Google ads to Kijiji alleged
- Craigslist has filed its response to eBay's lawsuit and the company hits back--hard. Craigslist alleges that eBay participated in everything from "unlawful and unfair competition," false advertising, business interference and even phishing attacks. The official list via Craigslist: "We filed a complaint in California today, charging...
- Tags: Google Inc., Craigslist, Advertisement, eBay Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....
- Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs -- and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- JavaOne: The week in video
- JavaOne has come and gone and we've learned that Sun is gunning for LiveMesh, is bringing applets back and wooing developers. Here's a look at some of the key stories: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun Sun's continuing open...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Video, JavaOne, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactlyI'm with you....Facebook - why on earth would MS do it? It just doesn't make any sense - hell look for new business models, don't just play dumb catch up!More over here - http://diversity.net.nz/ms-considering-a-facebook-purchase/2008/05/08/It's called flounderingWhen they can't go forward, they can't go back, and...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., revenue, VCSY, Vertical Computer Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
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