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- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Chasing Google Patents: What's the real deal?
- Word is “out” about the latest Google “plans,” so says “The Guardian,” thanks to a patent filing “scoop.”Publicly filed Google patent applications are seductive, holding the allure of an “inside” look at what Google is REALLY up to. But alas, the very public, accessible to anyone, filings do not provide...
- Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign
- With one stroke, Microsoft has ended any illusion that it planned to try to build bridges with the open-source community. And it appears the primary reason for Microsofts decision to go back on the public attack against Linux and other open-source software is the looming Version 3 of the Free...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, Novell
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!
- News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...
- Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Google beware: Does Microsoft lust for Yahoo?
- Microsoft and Yahoo sitting in a tree, KISSING!So it would seem, given the “inspired” meet-up of Microsoft top brass with the Yahoo CEO, at Microsoft’s downtown Seattle Strategic Account Summit next week.Joanne Bradford, Corporate Vice President, Chief Media Officer, MSN, has honors at the event, taking to the stage with...
- Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST!
- Another day, another company that claims to be the one that will dethrone $150 billion market cap, and “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google from its search advertising kingdom.Who is the latest to put forth the would-be Google slayer, along with potential killer of perennial runner-up Yahoo and slow out of...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Google Ads, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- 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: Battelle, Content, Copyright, Donna Bogatin, Google, Google Inc., Internet Data, NBC Universal Inc., Profits, Radio, Television, Video, Wall Street
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Google, YouTube double down on user tracking, DoubleClick next up
- Do you want Google to track, record and archive, on their servers, every move you make on the Web? Google is betting that you do with its new "Web History" Web activity "manager": View and search across the full text of the pages youve visited, including Google searches, web pages,...
- Tags: YouTube, Privacy, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Google DoubleClick: The REAL big time payoff
- Google wins big in its acquisition of DoubleClick. Immediate credibility and market share in display advertising market? YESCompetitive posturing to the disadvantage of prime rivals Microsoft and Yahoo. YES BUT, the two oft cited rationales for Google’s $3.1 billion investment are complementary to the core Google mission to...
- Tags: Wall Street, ROI, AdWords, Search Advertising, Search, Google Ads, Google, ecommerce, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Google Radio: Can Clear Channel REALLY save it?
- dMarc Broadcasting founders bailed their own company a year after Google acquired it in a prospective billion dollar plus “earn out,” undoubtedly believing there would be no billion dollars to be had for them under the Google Radio initiatives. Google Audio Ads is still a “test,” as Google Print...
- Tags: Radio, Google Ads, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model
- Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...
- Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Google: Technology driven or people driven?
- Can Google CEO Eric Schmidt make it in NYC? I asked last October upon the grand opening of the spanking new East coast Googleplex in Manhattan’s Chelsea. WHY? Because Google proudly declares it is an engineering company, not a media company, despite the fact that its $10 billion in...
- Tags: Advertising, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Microsoft, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- Google DoubleClick marriage (can be) risky business
- Google is darn confident in its ability to rule the Web. How confident? $3.1 billion worth. Yesterday, I chided Google for its heretofore philosophy of not wanting to pay up in acquisitions, the “crazy” buy-out model espoused by Google’s corporate development strategist Salman Ullah. But Google HAS bit...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Google buyouts are BAD business
- Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up! Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and “crazy” things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still “unclear” how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...
- Tags: YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Google's $19 billion 'scary' mobile advertising problem
- Nineteen billion dollars worth of global mobile marketing and advertising is to be had by 2011 ABI Research and, in good Googley form, CEO Eric Schmidt is gunning for the lions share. And, despite Google’s inability to show any successful diversification offline, many are gunning for Google in the...
- Tags: Television, ROI, Business Models, Advertising, Wireless, TV, Search Advertising, Search, Radio, Print, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Google, Cell Phones
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Obama trounces Clinton in online campaign money grab
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Barack Obama is spoiling Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign fundraising celebration, big time.Hillary Clinton snags $4.2 million online in first quarter 2007, I reported Monday. Obama for America, however, now announces its campaign raised $6.9 million...
- Tags: President Clinton, User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- 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: The REAL Dish on EchoStar TV ad sales deal
- Google will be a monopoly I said yesterday, an ONLINE ADVERTSIING one.But, what assets does Google really bring to the offline advertising table?Google owns the online search market, literally, with its own 50% plus market share Google.com, backed up by a proprietary “massively scalable infrastructure.”How about offline? What does Google...
- Tags: TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Google, TechCrunch: When April Fool's is no joke
- April Fools Day is observed throughout the Western world by “trying to get people to believe ridiculous things,” so notes Pearson Education.Ridiculous, however, is becoming more and more oxymoronic. For example, if a search engine declares a grandiose mission to organize the world’s information, would “The Moon” not be...
- Tags: Google, Culture, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Google: Sergey Brin on ad revenue knob
- Robert Scoble reports from the cocktail field that he “noticed that Google is putting fewer advertisements on each page than its competitor.”He cites “Google internal research” discussed by a “nameless” Google employee while mingling at an “awesome” Jeff Pulver party in support of his assertions that Google is “brilliant” and...
- Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, local listing, Google Local
- Blog posts 2007-03-24
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