Archive for the ‘myspace’ Category

linkedin in play? if so where’s yahoo and msft?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

My online penpal Allen Stern passes along the rumor that Fox Interactive Media is in discussions to buy the business networking behomoth LinkedIn.  Bravo - I say.  Linkedin would certainly offer a nice counter weight to the antics displayed within most MySpace profiles.  And if identities online stay splintered (personal ...

McClure on SMO (Social Media Optimization)

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Dave McClure, man of 1,000 startup connections (seriously if you're a startup in the valley and haven't met dave I am not sure you exist :) ), writes a good "come-to-jesus" post about the importance of social media in online marketing.   As I have commented before here - the social media ...

Does Google own the Internet?

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 ...

google is the man.

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

According to the IAB, Internet ad spending topped $4.2 billion for q3 2006. What's amazing is that Google accounted for $2.7 billion or 65% of the market for online ad spending! Wow. What's interesting about that stat is Google only represents about 10 billion page views out of the roughly 1.5 ...