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Web 2.0: An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web, which was coined by O'Reilly Media (www.oreilly.com) and CMP Media (www.cmp.com) in their 2004 and subsequent conferences on...; Full Web 2.0 Definition >>

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Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!: If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...; Tags: Enterprise, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-09
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 user data cloud: Do you trust it?: Google takes user data and privacy very seriously, it intones repeatedly. Why then, does it supposedly not know where its users’ data is in its massively encroaching world wide cloud? In Google Gmail: Privacy Policy vs. Help Center last December, I dissected Google’s non-position on what happens when...; Tags: Web 2.0, Privacy, Google Software Applications, Google; Blog posts 2007-04-28
Google Web 2.0 redux: Eric Schmidt meets John Battelle, again: What a difference five months and Web 2.0 Expo versus Web 2.0 Summit makes? NO. The John Battelle – Eric Schmidt repartee presents more like a replay than a rematch.Schmidt on we can all get along in the cloud, circa November 6, 2006: On the subject of office suites,...; Tags: Web 2.0, Google Apps, Google, Google Software Applications; Blog posts 2007-04-17
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: Is the Web 2.0 honeymoon over?: On Malik declared the end of Web 2.0 innocence last week. Many months ago, I warned that innocence is not an option in the Googlefied Web 2.0 world. (see Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!)What about Web 2.0 start-ups themselves?Do they believe the Google MyMaps enhancement means they will...; Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Google, Business Models, Google Software Applications; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time: Is Google celebrating the "death" of Microsoft?Paul Graham believes so, proclaiming Microsoft to be rich but dead.But are Eric Schmidt and company really “not afraid of Microsoft anymore”? Hardly. Google does indeed fear Microsoft, big time, and rightly so.Below are just a few billion dollar reasons why, in rebuttal to...; Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Mobile, Microsoft, Metrics, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-07
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: 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
Google IS a public service, sometimes: To start the Google New Year, I asked rhetorically “Is Google a public service?,” by juxtaposing Google’s public facing mission statement with that of The Library of Congress.For big profit Google’s mission statement is a seemingly public serving one, “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”...; Tags: Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-04-02
Welcome Google to your Digital Home!: Google wants you in its Cloud today. Tomorrow, make way for Google in your Digital Home!LG, “Life’s Good,” so touts LG Electronics, and it will undoubtedly be even better when things get Googley, in the LG + G for Google home of the future!Think “Ten Commandments” Google is satisfied with...; Tags: Web 2.0, TV, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-03-31
Google Maps under siege: Who says being the number one search engine in the world is all glory?Google really does want to organize all the world’s information. What goes with all the world’s territory? Accountability to the entire world!I recently asked rhetorically “Is Google a public service?” U.S. Rep. Brad Miller apparently thinks so!The...; Tags: Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Google news and views: Google hacking, domains and job interviews: NEW Digital Markets Series: Google News and ViewsNoteworthy Google links from all around the World Wide Web!A New Googely Hire, pre-indoctrinatedMark Pilgrim, "Two visions," 3/19/07There are two basic visions of the future of the Web, and one of them is wrong. Im going to work on the right one for...; Tags: YouTube, Yellow Pages, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Is there a Google trap? Data portability vs. accountability: I often note Google CEO Eric Schmidt is Google’s top cheerleader; Google blogger Matt Cutts seems to be a formidable runner-up. At his “personal” blog, Googler Cutts, head of the Google Webspam team, has been giving props to fellow Googlers this 2007:“Not trapping users’ data = GOOD”I was happy about...; Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, Privacy, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-09
Google vs Old Media: Who needs YouTube?: Who needs YouTube? That is the $1.65 billion dollar online video question. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confidently let it be known this week that every mainstream professional video content producer does, in very Googley take it or leave it terms. Vicaom does not believe it needs YouTube, however,...; Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content; Blog posts 2007-03-08
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
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
Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity: Google CEO Eric Schmidt reinforced his profound belief in a “new,” Google-centric paradigm, ‘cloud computing and advertising go hand-in-hand’, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco this afternoon. Schmidt’s high-level Google vision expressed today mirrored his commentary at the Search Engine Strategies conference last August, where...; Tags: Wall Street, Google Software Applications, Google, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-05
YouTube makes deal with BBC: Who wins?: The two Internet kings—Google and YouTube—were unusually restrained in announcing “BBC and YouTube partner to bring short-form BBC online content to online audiences.”Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, did offer the typical “ground-breaking partnership” exclamation, however.How ground breaking? Not very from the YouTube side.AUTHORIZED CONTENT ON YOUTUBE: The non-exclusive partnership...; Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-02
Why Google needs Viacom, big time!: John Battelle to Big Media on Googles YouTube: “Forget the deal.” Battelle’s latest “old media doesn’t get it” piece is a rambling follow-up to a Mark Cuban verdict that old media hasn’t figured things out, YouTube things that is. Battelle’s confidence in his lack of confidence in mega...; Tags: Advertising, Brands, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Movies, ROI, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-02