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Google Universal Search $25,000 query in Jeopardy: Marissa Mayer's Universal Search assertions have a lot more riding on them now: $25,000!Is Google Universal Search in Jeopardy?"The best answer is still the best answer," Mayer confidently proclaimed upon unleashing Universal Search to the world just two weeks ago. While Mayer always says the right Googley things, she does not always...; Tags: Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content; Blog posts 2007-05-29
YouTube gets religion: Matzoh Balls and Chocolate Bunnies: What is part of organizing all the worlds information? Celebrating the holidays YouTube style!PASSOVER/PESACH 2007: MATZA BALL RAP! by Giving Tree Productions, described as "hysterical rap to the music of baby got back by sir mix a lot."Anita C. Rich comments: "Nice, makes me want to get up and have...; Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-05
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
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
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
NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!: AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-08
YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks: I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...; Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-03-06
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
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
CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?: IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...; Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models; 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
IceBreaker social mobile software: Crush or Flush CEO exclusive interview: Did you ever want an ice breaker, a mobile one? Crush or Flush to the rescue, a new social mobile service from IceBreaker, Inc., a mobile software company that “helps people stay connected through mobile software that is engaging and easy to use.” What is Crushin’ and Flushin’?Tag...; Tags: Social Software, Wireless, Cell Phones, Software, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Culture, Usability, Web 2.0, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-02-26
Entertainment economy: Are YOU the new Hollywood?: The 79th Annual Academy Awards Hollywood self-promotional love fest broadcasts to the world tonight. Does it matter? Neal Gabler follows in the Times Magazine 2006 “YOU” are the “Person of the Year” tradition to proclaim YOU are the future of movies.Gabler puts forth movie industry statistics to conclude...; Tags: Amateur Content, Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Self-Promotion, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-02-25
John Edwards NOT Social Networking for 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008: Edition number 24 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”John Edwards is "Social Networking" like a true politician, he is covering all his bases and promising action. But what is his actual Social Networking record?In “John Edwards: Be my MySpace...; Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, John Edwards; Blog posts 2007-02-24
iStockphoto CEO on Getty Images acquisition: Exclusive interview on one year anniversary: Got $1.00? Then you can download one of 1,459,000 artist quality, royalty-free images showcased at iStockPhoto.Bruce Livingstone, iStockphoto President and CEO, has been powering “the first, biggest and best community-powered marketplace for value-priced imagery,” since he founded it in April 2000.As of February 2006, Livingston has been powering his photographic...; Tags: Brands, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Marketing, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, The Real Deal, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-19
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
Can Web 2.0 make taxes sexy?: Are you down with “The Tax Rap”? Yo! Everyone knows nothing goes together better than RAPPING and TAXES. Dont get it twisted. TurboTax is the #1 selling, #1 rated tax software in the US—A. Platinum. We dont do "sweet". We do big, fat, throw your back out theyre so...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-15
YouTube: Must see TV? 'User Generated Politics' presidential campaign 2008: On January 23, I announced: Social media conversations have entered the big leagues, the high-stakes presidential ones.In Social Media conversations: Talking or selling?, the first story in my continuing coverage of what I have dubbed “User Generated Politics,” I analyzed how Hillary Clinton used a slick video-enabled Website campaign headquarters...; Tags: Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Legal, Local, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Television, TV, User Generated Politics, User-Generated Content, Video, Wikipedia, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-15
Hillary Clinton trumps Barack Obama, on eBay!: Winning the most powerful position in the world--president of the United States--takes big money.Campaigns are not the only organizations on the presidential money trail, however.Good old fashioned American democracy is dovetailing, as usual, with good old fashioned American capitalism. What I am calling “User Generated Politics” gets commercial!In “eBay...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, eBay, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Social Networking, Social Web, User Generated Politics, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-02-14