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- Ask vs. Google: Can $100 million buy IAC search happiness?
- IACs Ask.com is not Google, but it aspires to be! Is $100 million in media spend all it will take?We have a number of ways to tell people about Ask, its tools, and why it should be used (and) why you should make a change from Google," IAC Chairman and...
- Tags: Advertising, Google, Search, Self-Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!
- “Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart,” so croons Frank Sinatra. Maybe, but the very young are getting their hearts broken at MySpace!It apparently is not an easy task to maintain over 175 million friendships, even if Friend in Chief is founding...
- Tags: Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Political Campaign, MySpace, Marketing, Facebook, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Social Networking for the masses: Rise of 'The Sleuth'
- Is social networking really just a young persons game? Is MySpace the only social networking game? (see Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?)NO. There is a social networker in each and every one of us that seeks emotional rewards from being connected and influential, new research has found. ...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Google's big, bad risk
- The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...
- Tags: YouTube, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Sex trade at Google, not Craigslist
- Does Craigslist REALLY have a “dirty little secret”? NO, but Google may!Compete, a Website which claims “insights powered by over 2 million people,” declares a “scoop,” daring to bare the “virtual red-light district,” aka Craigslist:"It’s no wonder that Craigslist is champion of the online classifieds revolution; Compete reports just under...
- Tags: Google, Amateur Content, Advertising, Self-Promotion, Media, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Culture, Craigslist
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?
- Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Does Google SEO success 'suck'?
- Rich Skrenta has a love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.Skrenta decried to the Wall Street Journal just weeks ago that as Topix is 45% dependent upon Google for its visitors, moves by the number one search engine can yield “catastrophic” impacts...
- Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Local, Internet Data, Google, Business Models, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Yahoo on the fringe! The big Y Goes underground, big time
- Shouldn’t the holy grail of UGC, User Generated Content, really be all about the Users, as in user culture, as opposed to corporate culture?YES, and Yahoo gets it, big time, with the launch of “Yahoo Underground,” a funky, seeking to be no holds barred first-hand trip inside of “unexplored worlds,”...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Culture, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- Is Web 2.0 over? TechCrunch bails on startups
- TechCrunch goes pro: What’s the deal? I asked earlier this month.Michael Arrington, aka TechCrunch, now gives us the answer:Today we are announcing that we have acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction.Are congratulations in order? Hardly.Arrington “explains” his editorial about face with typical TechCrunch pragmatism:Since FC...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Self-Promotion, Business Models, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- First Presidents club: Clinton, Bush go wireless
- Only in America?Two directly competitive former Presidents of the United States from opposing political parties join together on a business conference stage in a for (large) fee inspirational talk to expo attendees: William Jefferson Clinton and George Herbert Walker Bush.What’s more: One of the retired Presidents’ son is the sitting...
- Tags: Wireless, Self-Promotion, Mobile, Cell Phones
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...
- Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule?
- Kevin Rose is proudly singing the praises of his Digg today, 1,000,000 praises: It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Digg, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- John Edwards: MySpace trumps Ning, big time!
- Edition number 29 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Ning is proving a very unsocial place for John Edwards. The 60 second Ning John Edwards “Social Network” set-up by the Edwards campaign looks like it is a 60 second...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Craigslist, Government, John Edwards, Marketing, Media, Metrics, MySpace, Self-Promotion, Social Capital, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Obama trouncing Clinton in MySpace race
- Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends...
- Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, Culture, Government, Web 2.0, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Social Software, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Google taps guerrilla marketing for Google Checkout
- Do you know that Google has a "new service that makes online shopping faster, more convenient and more secure," and it is called Google Checkout?Google is trying its damndest to make sure you do!Readers of this Digital Markets Blog know that I have been chronicling Googles every Checkout move, both...
- Tags: Advertising, ecommerce, Google, Google Checkout, Google Software Applications, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-03-04
- Andreessen vs. Cisco: Web 2.0 platform competition heats up
- Is Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-creator and Ning turnkey social networking platform co-founder, worried that powerhouse Cisco is raining on his social networking parade?"The idea that Cisco is going to be a force in social networking is about as plausible as Ning being a force in optical switches,” he said to...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Enterprise, Marketing, Media, Self-Promotion, Social Capital, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Software, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
- Should Google be trusted?
- When Google speaks the world listens, and believes, the media in particular.Is that a good thing? Generally not, especially when billions of dollars of others’ property is at stake.In the past two days alone, Google speak has succeeded in much more than dampening media criticism. It’s deft media handling has...
- Tags: Click Fraud, Google, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Legal, Media, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Self-Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
- Beer fuels social networking: MingleNow 'Clinks' Anheuser-Busch
- Blue Lithium ad serving company touts it is “reinventing the ad network.” Starting now, it also seeks to reenergize the social network, in collaboration with Anheuser-Busch. Blue Lithium Labs spearheaded the launch of MingleNow, an online/offline social network “dedicated to connecting users to their favorite clubs and bars and...
- Tags: Social Software, ROI, Social Networking, ecommerce, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Social Web, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Digg: TechCrunch vs. Wired Magazine
- Michael Arrington comes to the Digg rescue suggesting: “Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart.”On what does Arrington base his conclusion? Arrington:My bigger problem is that Wired isn’t simply reporting news about Digg. They’re making the news. And they’re going negative.Really? Where’s the...
- Tags: Social Software, Social Media, Social Networking, Content, Self-Promotion, Digg, Amateur Content, Social Web, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- YouTube: Presidential candidates cool in 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008
- Edition number 27 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Did you ever want an online place where you could go to watch all the slick presidential campaign videos produced by the candidates?YouTube to the rescue: A “You Choose ‘08” channel...
- Tags: Social Software, President Clinton, John Edwards, Presidential Race, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Politics, User Generated Politics, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
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