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ListAndPlay: Music Videos Done Right
A while back I outlined my idea of dream TV and talked about how the merger of music selection algorithms and video clips could bring us television which is customized by content genres as opposed to today’s system of...
Google: Privacy Died Long Ago
This past weekend the Wall Street Journal interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt and there were some interesting comments about how Google knows so much about you and moreover knows your location and as such the company can remind you to...
Google Scaring Apple to Death?
If you don't think the Google business model of giving away as much as possible and subsidizing it through ad revenue is striking fear in the hearts of the tech world, you would be wrong. Even Steve Jobs seems afraid;...
Suddenly Murdoch is a Real Threat to Google?
No sooner did I write my latest post on how Google could be in danger of the feds investigating them due to antitrust concerns does this entry turn up explaining how Rupert Murdoch and other newspapers could stop Google from...
Partnering for SEO Success
In the last two weeks I drove (well I was in the car anyway) for more than 1,500 miles meeting with tech companies in Montreal, Ontario, Massachusetts, Rochester, NY, Los Angeles and San Diego. The last stop on my latest...
Google and Enterprise Search
One of the constants in the enterprise is a proliferation of systems and data which is directly responsible for increase storage needs. This last fall in fact IDC predicted a 62% CAGR for unstructured data. Moreover enterprise storage as a...
Avoiding Google AdWords Mistakes
I would like to start this self-promotional blog entry with a thank you. You see the last time I told you about a TMCnet webinar, you came out in force. You may recall it was a Zenprise/Blackberry webinar on...
How Google Can Win The TV Wars
Last night I saw Seal in concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and as I watched and heard some songs which I didn't like, I pictured myself clicking the thumbs down button on Pandora - the...
Suing Google for Fun and Money Owed
What happens when you think Google owes you less than $1,000 and they don't respond appropriately? You sue them. Excerpt: Ms. Milani reiterated her previous arguments, but the judge didn't buy them. "I don't think I have the power...
Google's Traffic Numbers Inaccurate?
Over the years, TMC has tried many third party measurement sites and without a doubt, Google Analytics under reports traffic numbers as compared to other independent measurement services by an order of magnitude in many cases. Why is anyone's guess...
Yahoo/Microsoft The Never-Ending Story
I am not sure I have the attention span to follow the love/hate story that is the Microsoft/Yahoo/Carl Icahn/Rupert Murdoch relationship acquisition/merger/whatever -- but it seems that as of this moment, Yahoo has once again rejected Microsoft's proposal -- this...
Yahoo Problems Getting Solved?
Painfully slow decision making and bad management are complaints I have heard about Yahoo from ex-employees and consultants that used to work with/for the leading web destination. BusinessWekk has an article on the matter which discusses how Yahoo is losing...
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Analysis
Would you switch your search engine if you got paid to do so? Amazon tried this recently with their A9 search engine and countless dotcoms did as well with chances to win millions if you used them. No one seems...
Why Skype Should be Sold to Google
There are now rumors circulating that Google will buy Skype. These rumors are not new -- I wrote about this as recently as November 20 of 2007. But they did die down for a while and have been renewed. I...
Google Growing too Quickly?
Something in me switched this week regarding Google. We all know that no company can grow infinitely large in a rapid fashion without having massive communications failures that slow decision making down. Eventually companies become political messes that go nowhere....
iPhone Google Traffic Surge
Back in the late nineties the CEO of Nokia made an interesting prediction at an industry show in his keynote address. The prognostication was that soon more people would surf the internet on their mobile devices than on PCs. Unfortunately...
Google Uses Technology To Enhance Ad Results
Google announced today they are rolling out their Conversion Optimizer bid management feature to advertisers who have accrued at least 200 conversions in the last 30 days. The service shows ads when clicks are most likely to occur meaning more...
Google Knol: Squeezing out the Little Guy
Google will soon be launching Knol – a knowledge archive similar to Wikipedia with the exception being t hat authors of content will be tracked more closely and ads will optionally be allowed to run on listings with authors...
Ma Bell Strikes Back
Recently I wrote an article titled Ma Google which discussed how Google needs to do anything – everything it can to have a direct pipe to customers so they can bypass service providers who could block their access. ...
Blyke: Free Mobile Calling
I just can’t believe how much cheaper it gets over time to use communications services. When I was a teenager we paid somewhere around 25 cents per minute just to call one state away. Before we had fax machines we...
Google Lawsuits
If you are annoyed that your trademarks are being used on Google’s search engine to allow your competitor to profit, join the club as American Airlines is the latest company to sue Google for using its trademark inappropriately. Other companies...
Behavioral Targeting at Google
Google has recently begun using behavioral targeting to help it display more relevant ads based on keywords. According to Nick Fox, Google's group business product manager for ads quality. Fox said the new feature, aims to capture a more...
