Archive for the ‘google’ Category
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
I've been getting emails from folks about both posts. First, I don't have anything against Google or Yahoo. And in Google's case I should point out - there's nothing illegal about being a monopoly (a point MSFT might have better pursued). What's illegal is anti-competitive behavior. And there's no indication of ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I was able to visit emetrics today on behalf of loomia. Thanks to my colleague and friend dave mcclure I was able to meet some cool folks. But more importantly I got to see a demo of the new analytics UI. If you're an adwords user - it's AWESOME. Much ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Barron's writer Eric Savitz is smoking crack if he thinks a Google-Yahoo merger would ever get past the anti-trust regulators. No way, no how. That would represent 80-90% of the online ad market measure by dollars. No way, no how. Does he think the feds would let one company own ...
Posted in barron's, doubleclick, google | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I am fairly experienced with SEM having managed grown an SEM budget from $100 a day a few years ago to hundreds of thousands dollars a month across every conceivable search engine and contextual platform from Google to Kanoodle and everything in between.
Because of the size of their traffic - ...
Posted in CPC, SEM, google, kanoodle, long tail, panama, yahoo | No Comments »
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
My friend Andy pens that Google owns the Internet in the same way Microsoft owned the PC in the 90's. I don't know if I agree that Google owns the Internet but it does currently own monetizing the Internet or at least until someone figures out how to monetize social ...
Posted in google, microsoft, myspace | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Hmmm advertisers are growing wary of Google's market position with the purchase of DoubleClick according to AdAge. Market concentration is a serious problem for competitors and customers and will be an important issue for the online ecosystem for at least the next 10 years. Whether Google plays nice or not ...
Posted in antitrust, blubet, google, ibm, intel, microsoft | No Comments »
Friday, April 13th, 2007
I am of course biased by my experience - which has been at the intersection of consumer oriented services around data, ad-supported content and digital media. One of the areas that is interesting to see emerge is the Computer in the Sky or as some refer to it as the ...
Posted in advertising, amazon.com, computing cloud, ec2, google, jukebox, loudeye, music, s3, utility computing | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Fred Vogelstein's interview with Eric Schmidt presents an interesting story about classic DIY/NIH impulses that comes from engineers and developers - in this case Larry and Sergei desire to build a financial system themselves instead of buying one from Oracle. At every startup I have worked at this desire comes up. Developers ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Mark Cuban's question in a post below asks us to imagine if my old company - encoding.com aka Loudeye (which encoded lots of a-list music and video) decided to throw all the content it had online. That would have been one hell of a site from a user's perspective - movies, ...
Posted in YouTube, copyright, eMusic, encoding.com, google, kazaa, loudeye, mark cuban, mp3.com, napster, startups, video | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Today Henry Blodgett argues Google should buy Spot Runner essentially arguing Spot Runner is enabling targeted TV advertising for the long tail of local advertisers. Spot Runner's not the only company dreaming the dream of enabling the long tail video advertising (both online or offline). And based on a conversation I had ...
Posted in crossing the chasm, google, online advertising, spot runner, video | No Comments »
