Google and Mobile
Mobile Adwords, it's happening….
Mobile Adwords, it's happening….
Yahoo is paying a ton of money for the Zimbra collaboration/email service: $350mm, to be exact. That's $39 bucks a mailbox, if you divide Zimbra's 9mm mailboxes by the acquisition price. Yow. I bet that is one hell of a multiple on revenues or profits, as Zimbra, which was…
FM partner and entrepreneur Harry Wakefield (of Moco Loco) just pinged me with news that Praized, his blog startup focusing on the local market, which has just been funded in an angel round. Congrats Harry!…
BB pal Cory Doctorow has published a short story on the theme of Google as evildoer. The opening scene imagines Google services used by the Department of Homeland Security. The interrogator in the secondary screening room was an older man, so skinny he looked like he'd been carved out…
The interrogator in the secondary screening room was an older man, so skinny he looked like he’d been carved out of wood. His questions went a lot deeper than shrooms.
“Tell me about your hobbies. Are you into model rocketry?”
Read MoreI'll dig more into this as the day evolves…from AFP: AOL unveiled Monday a global advertising platform it said marked another step in a restructuring for the once-dominant Internet firm that has been losing ground in recent years. AOL, media titan Time Warner's Internet subsidiary, announced a series of…
AOL unveiled Monday a global advertising platform it said marked another step in a restructuring for the once-dominant Internet firm that has been losing ground in recent years.
AOL, media titan Time Warner’s Internet subsidiary, announced a series of changes aimed at positioning the company “as the world’s largest and most effective advertising network.”
Read MoreReader Stone writes: I think this much is clear: Yahoo only outsources search to Google if they're bought by a financial or private equity firm….
As part of my preparation for Web 2, I am going to think out loud and ask for all of your help. This year's program for Web 2 includes an amazing array of leaders, and it'll be my job, along with my co-producer Tim O'Reilly, to engage these folks…
So as I have in the past, I’ll use this space as a sketch pad of sorts.
First up is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook (stats). I’ll be interviewing him in the opening slot of the show. It’s not by accident. Last year the opening slot was Eric Schmidt, and this year it’s clear that Facebook has diverted the Valley’s short attention span from Google, at least for now.
Read MoreJoe Duck has had some serious issues posting comments here. Have you?…
Rex Hammock calls for folks to rally around "conversational media" as a term for all that social media/user generated content/word of mouth marketing/etc. and I'm honored by his suggestion (my writings on the topic are here and here and here). He also offers a critique of the first ever…
Now, about that URL – conversationalmedia.com – that you own….
Squidoo, from which not much has been heard lately, is getting into people search. TC has more….