Archive for December, 2006
From Haaretz, via Micropersuasions:
Raw Sugar, an Israeli Del.icio.us clone, shut down. The company was privately funded.
RIP.
This comes a few days after Conde Nast-owned Wired totally violated any speck of ethical disclosure policy and called for Digg to become the Friendster of 2007 without mentioning that the parent company had bought Digg competitor Reddit.
Then again, they […]
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China’s gaining speed:
China’s population of Internet users, already the world’s second-largest after the United States, has risen by 30 percent over the past year to 132 million, a state news agency said Friday.
The figure was up from 123 million at the end of June, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing the government’s China Internet Network […]
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Ok, Google might be evil. After all, the company churns out product after product feature after feature with no [intention or real] hope of them being profitable profit centers so that it can collect more data on users so that it can become the next-generation advertising platform.
We know that.
The company is synonymous with data mining […]
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MSFT is bolstering its search capability by offering behavioral targeting. Read more.
I am expecting - and have not ruled this out yet - MSFT to acquire one of the following companies:
- aQuantive
- Valueclick
- Tribal Fusion
- Revenue Science
- Tacoda
- etc.
MSFT won’t invest in content, it sold Slate.com which was its little political / content experience to […]
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Just a week ago, we published our Top 10 Storylines of 2006. We were going to avoid the Top 10 Trends or Predictions of 2007 and instead do something else (we still will do that, expect it on January 1st).
But then Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com challenged us to suggest some predictions for 2007, you know our saying: “Ash […]
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I hate to say I told you so, so I won’t.
But I will say this, when we wrote that times would not be as lavish for video file sharing sites in the wake of the Youtube/Google deal, we turned out to be right.
Guba, a pioneer in the space said adios to its visionary CEO earlier […]
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Today Digg announced that it raised an additional $8.5 million in financing from its existing investors, Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network, which is run by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. According to the many sources: “Greylock investor David Sze says Greylock and Omidyar weren’t interested in having an outside investor dilute their holdings, and that […]
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Technorati - which had been rumored to be on sale for most of the year - just got Googled.
According to Hitwise, Google’s Blog Search surpassed Technorati recently, thanks to a main page and Google News push.
This highlights a few things:
- Old New Media (as in Google, Yahoo etc) can surpass New, new media when it […]
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Google invests in a Chinese video site that allows users to download video off the Web. Yeah, that sounds very legal right there. I guess if they can’t beat them (YouTube in US), they’ll join ‘em in China. If YouTube was illegal because it allowed people to upload video to the Web, how bad is […]
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A week after venerable Time magazine anointed YOU as the person of the year, the NYT asks if we’re in a bubble, some six months after the question crept up on the blogosphere.
To read our take on Pockets of Bubbledom, but No Bubble Yet, click here.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then […]
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