Archive for June, 2007
Google is a technology company all right, but it is a master of media. I won’t list all of the things it has done to make me say this, but today Google’s blog came out and blasted Michael Moore’s Sicko.
Firstly, as a self-labeled tech company, what on earth is Google doing offering movie reviews?
Second, and […]
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Like everyone, I’m sick of iPhone chatter. But like everyone, I can’t help but add my two cents on some things.
For a device that was supposed to sell like cupcakes, there are plenty of iPhones left. Makes you wonder if camping out was necessary.
My Palm Treo - which I’ve had for 2.5 years - […]
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I’m getting pretty tired of iPhone talk… but isolated cases, or a sign of things to come?
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- Line of the Year - Dvorak: “Hitler got less coverage when he invaded Poland”.
- Forbes’ hack job on iPhone?
- Top 10 Web/High Tech Stocks of Past, Present and Future
- What is Fake Steve was Real Steve?
- Will Hubris, […]
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Paid Content reports on a Globes Online (Israel’s Business Arena) that US and Israeli-based Quigo is looking to seize on investor demand for consumer web media companies, and I guess, the lack of new options. It’s been a few years since Google put IPOs back in vogue amongst consumer firms, but there have not really […]
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Entrepreneur.com asks 8 questions, via TheStreet.com (then some quick comments):
1. Are you a technology company?
2. Can you be a market leader?
3. Will it be cheap to make this company?
4. Is there a clear distribution channel?
5. Can this product be distributed without significant support?
6. Can the product or service generate gross margins of more than 50%?
7. […]
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What’s up with that massive spike? After eight down sessions, Limelight Networks shoots up dramatically?
Anyone got a clue as to why?
Disclaimer: Long LLNW.
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When pundits think of what might be in store for Yahoo!, the options that come to mind are as follows:
- status quo
- merger with eBay
- acquisition by/merger with Microsoft
- taken private
No one really suggests that Google will and can buy Yahoo!, and that has a lot to do with the current breakdown of the search engine […]
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Earlier this year, Powerset made a lot of noise by securing the rights to natural language technology from Xerox Parc as it set off to index the Web and building a search destination site.
According to the much covered VentureBeat story:
The move is significant because Google’s own technology, based on “page rank,” has been virtually replicated by […]
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Search? Check.
Video inventory? Check.
Software to serve ads? Check.
Feed management? Check.
The only thing missing from Google, really, is a sales force to sell ads. After all, the Doubleclick aquisition was all about software, and not media, since DCLK got out of the media business.
Google should buy a sales organization involved in the sale of video ads. It […]
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I don’t like Rupert Murdoch solely due to the following ill-fated, pro-war words, taken from this 2003 The Guardian article:
Most revealing of all was Murdoch’s reference to the rationale for going to war, blatantly using the o-word. Politicians in the United States and Britain have strenuously denied the significance of oil, but Murdoch wasn’t so […]
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