Recent Posts Tagged With 'google'

• Reviewing my 2009 predictions

  Posted on Sunday December 27th, 2009 at 02:52 in google, Microsoft, yahoo, Economy, entrepreneurship, amazon, social media, facebook, twitter, government 2.0

  It's time for the self-assessment of my predictions for the previous year.  Here goes...Government 2.0 -- if the Obama administration earned a mandate of any kind, it is in the area of government intervention in the free market.  There will be...

• Don't confuse me for a social media zealot

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 22:35 in google, Internet Marketing, Microsoft, Rant, yahoo, amazon, social media, facebook, twitter, old media, enterprise web 2.0

  I have had a few conversations with colleagues, ex-colleagues, and current clients that lead me to believe that they think I'm a social media zealot. While a lot of what I do is tied in some way to social networks,......

• Another thing on the Yahoo-Microsoft Bing search deal

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 08:06 in google, Internet Marketing, Microsoft, yahoo, social media, facebook, twitter

  Think of this one from the internet marketer's perspective. Just a few years ago, internet marketers exclusively focus on Google to conduct just about any internet advertising campaign. Then Facebook emerged. You could still ignore Microsoft and Yaho...

• The Surprising Market Reaction to the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 07:33 in google, Internet Marketing, Microsoft, yahoo

  Disclosure: I don't own shares in Microsoft or Yahoo (yet). Maybe I'm missing something, but I really think the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal makes a ton of sense for both companies. I was very surprised to see Yahoo's stock take a......

• Microsoft & Newspapers/Local Media - more alike than you'd think

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 23:36 in google, Microsoft, newspapers, hyperlocal, old media

  A few weeks ago it occurred to me that, at least conceptually, I have seen the problems faced by the newspaper industry before... at Microsoft. Both face classic Innovators' Dilemma challenges. Microsoft is trying to hang on to huge annuity......

• Quick Hits - May 5, 2009

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 10:24 in google, Microsoft, amazon, twitter, local advertising

  It's been awhile, so here's another edition of Quick Hits. If Twitter doesn't have a few bidders at this snapshot in time, I'd be shocked. Just about all the major tech companies would benefit from owning Twitter. Once everyone knows......

• Facebook v. Twitter -- it's war

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 16:41 in google, Microsoft, social media, facebook, twitter

  I don't think it's hyperbole when the folks at Techcrunch say that Facebook and Twitter are now at war. I do think that the stage has been set for quite some time - each company has made sufficient progress that......

• The Case for Targeting Facebook

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 11:38 in google, facebook, notice technologies

  We are diving deep into Facebook and the Facebook Connect technologies right now to better understand what is there, what isn't there yet, and how we might be able to take advantage of the technology in a number of areas.......

• Google Latitude and other Location Based Services musings

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 12:21 in google, hyperlocal, local advertising, notice technologies

  Roughly a year ago when we first started assessing opportunities in the local advertising market, we had the opportunity to create a location-based service. We saw a number of companies such as Loopt and Brightkite who did a decent job......