January 02, 2006
Apple, Google Had Good 2005
Apple, I am betting is going to have a good if not great 2006. The reason I say that is because the company did rather well in 2005. While most of the world focused on the booming sales of iPod, Apple’s core business of selling computers also had a... [MORE]
Yahoo to launch reality TV series online
Xeni Jardin: Snip from SF Chronicle article: Terry Semel, the former movie studio chief who now leads Yahoo Inc., is back in show business. His Web portal has filmed a pilot for a reality series called "Wow House" that will be broadcast online within the next few months. (...)... [MORE]
December 30, 2005
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without
There have been numerous 2005 “best of” and 2006 “predictions” posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I’m not going to write one of those. Giving out “best of” awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I’ve been blogging all of six months.... [MORE]
Click Fraud Competes With SPAM For Title Of "Most Heinous"
Wired: Pay-per-click is the fastest-growing segment of all advertising, reports the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Last year, Yahoo! alone ran more than 250 million individual listings, according to Michael Egan, the company's search-marketing director of content strategy. Yahoo! doesn't break out PPC earnings separately in its financial statements, but Goldman... [MORE]
December 19, 2005
So, One Year Later, How'd I Do?
Each year I make predictions. Each year, I review them and see how I did. Then, I make some more. Alright then. Here's my 2004 predictions post, written in late December, 2004. As much as I might wince at the one or two clunkers, I'd say I did pretty... [MORE]
Yahoo to Measure Online and Offline Ad Effectiveness
Yahoo on Friday launched an analytics service that allows advertising on Yahoo sites to not only measure the performance of their online ads but also compare them with their radio, TV and print...... [MORE]
Test Drive an AJAX RSS Reader
Backbase has a whole bunch of AJAX web applications that you can test drive. One notable entry here is their RSS Reader. It's muy slick! Plus you can download the source code of this application and install it on your own server. While you're on the Backbase site take... [MORE]
December 17, 2005
AOL-Google-Microsoft: The Deal Dance History in Links
: We covered every little turn in this story....the history of the story through links (reverse chronological order), below: -- AOLGoogle: Some Details Of the Deal -- More On AOL-Google -- Report: AOL, Google Now In Exclusive Talks -- Case: No Return To AOL -- Time Warner Round-Up: Case... [MORE]
December 08, 2005
Yahoo Combines Australian Business With Seven Network; To Change Name to Yahoo7
: Yahoo has combined its Australian business with local media company Seven Network...the two companies will combine their respective online, mobile and IPTV businesses in Australia and New Zealand. In some senses, it is a deal on the lines of Yahoo's China deal, though on a much smaller scale... [MORE]
December 05, 2005
Competing with Google
Umair Haque writes: One way to qwn Google is through connected consumption. Google has proven time and time again that it doesn't have a real competence in community. Most of it's community-based initiatives are also-rans (Orkut, News, etc). re huge sources of value creation in a post-network economy -... [MORE]
November 28, 2005
Search Engine Brands: Google is The Guide
There's been a bunch of buzz the last few days about the Search Engine Experiment. The live test lets you put in a search term: the results from MSN, Yahoo and Google are returned and you're asked to determine which set you think is the most relevant (and therefore... [MORE]
November 21, 2005
Yahoo Will Provide Content For Clear Channel Digital Video Ad Kiosks In Malls
: Emphasizing how much Yahoo wants to be perceived not just as a portal but as a content distributor and creator, the company will be the content provider for a joint venture between Clear Channel Outdoor Malls and DAN Media that starts with large-format video screens ceiling mounted in... [MORE]
November 20, 2005
Yahoo Castrates Cheney's Dick
Of course, the edit has been fixed now, but some rogue Yahoo edit-bot saw fit to remove Vice President Cheney's first name from a Gawker Media Wonkette post that appeared on Yahoo as part of a recent content deal...... [MORE]
Blogger burnout
Matt, last week everybody was talking about blog sellouts. This week, the big news will no doubt be… blog burnouts. Tech pundit and Microsoft insider Robert Scoble is pulling the plug on his Scobleizer blog. He wants his personal life back. Here’s why: It’s becoming more and more clear... [MORE]
Scott Gatz
Matt MacAllister pointed to a new blog last month and I took notice. It was from a guy named Scott Gatz of Yahoo. I has met Scott on various occasions during my travels and I was recently told that he wa sthe ‘blogging guy’ at Yahoo. So I planted... [MORE]
Lots Going On
JD Lasica reports….. At Web 2.0 last week, I cornered the high-energy, super-sharp Valerie Cunningham about AlwaysOn’s just-announced OnHollywood summit — a gathering of the best and brightest in the movie and tech industries, coming to Hollywood on April 25-27, 2006. Here’s Valerie’s 2 1/2-minute description of the conference... [MORE]
November 19, 2005
Watch Jack Ma
The CEO of Alibaba, a central figure in China and the nascent search/ecommerce wars there, is one fun fellow to watch. His recent deal with Yahoo has redoubled Ma's presence in China. Read this Forbes piece for more. From it: Ma isn't content to dominate China's auctions and e-mail.... [MORE]
SOLD OUT: Come back in 18 month's time
This morning's Wall Street Journal wrote up (subscription required) on the burgeoning Web platform and the conundrum facing pretty much any mainstream marketer with money to spare and the premium web publishers (portals) with limited inventory. My thoughts are two-fold: 1. According to the article, MSN is charging up... [MORE]
November 18, 2005
Google Base as Directory
Michael Parekh writes: With Google Base, the company now POTENTIALLY has a human-powered directory of it's own, that can supplement results to it's core search engine. It's Yahoo!'s early approach in reverse. und, it's not just dozens or hundreds of humans powering the directory, it's potentially millions. To put... [MORE]
Yahoo, Google Are Competing With VCs As Start-Up Funders
: Google and Yahoo aren't just acquiring or, in many cases, acq-hiring small companies; they're also funding start-ups in competition with VCs. (Amazon has been doing this for a while; it's the sole investor in The Robot Co-op, parent of 43 Things.) John Battelle reports from London, where he... [MORE]
November 17, 2005
Yahoo Syndicates Kevin Sites' Hot Zone To Scripps Howard
: Not content with licensing content, Yahoo News has signed on with the Scripps Howard News Wires to provide dispatches from war correspondent Kevin Sites to the wire's clients. Lost Remote has the details.... [MORE]
