Monthly Archives: April 2007

Yahoo, Right Media, and the right idea about advertising

Posted on April 30, 2007 by

Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO, is optimistic about Yahoo’s purchase of Right Media, an advertising network. This, with Google’s recent aquisition of DoubleClick, may be the beginning of the end for agencies specializing in online (and eventually even offline) advertising as … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, Web 2.0, yahoo | 1 Comment

Black Holes = Worm Holes = Dimensional portals to new universe? Maybe….

Posted on April 30, 2007 by

You’ve got to love it when highly respectable, real science collides with science fiction as in this recent study suggesting that black holes may actually be worm holes that connect our universe to others. This appears to be consistent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, science, travel | 4 Comments

Duh…. you believe in Vudu?

Posted on April 29, 2007 by

No offense to Vudu but it’s not going to play in Peoria. Vudu appears to be a brilliant innovation in movie downloading, partly because it allows the user to start watching the show immediately and thus offers true “on demand” … Continue reading →

Posted in companies, videos, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments

Of Mice and Men … and mouses brains

Posted on April 28, 2007 by

IBM has just simulated half of a mouse brain on a supercomputer. The significance of this research cannot be overestimated, as projects like this are very likely to lead to the next state in human evolution itself – human-like artificial … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, science, Science & Technology | 4 Comments

Another victim of Google’s cleverness? Zunch Marketing goes belly up.

Posted on April 27, 2007 by

I don’t know Zunch, but I’d argue that it’s generally good riddance when overpriced fancy SEM firms go belly up. As Google creates easier, better, and cheaper ways to do great in-house SEM (e.g. Analytics and PPC management) it’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, companies, Google, marketing | 6 Comments

Web 2.0 adapter for Grandparents is needed.

Posted on April 27, 2007 by

Don has a very insightful look at trends in Web 2.0 based on a couple of recent conference experiences.  What I found particularly interesting was the graph which correctly noted the large missing link in Web 2.0, which is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Networks, travel, Web 2.0 | 5 Comments

Privacy, Google, Sex, Lies, ISPs, and Query String Theory

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

Matt’s  got a great post and comment section going on the issue of online privacy.   His point is well taken – Google stores less information about you than most other players online and your ISP is the place that has … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, Google, search, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

Battelle Online WebEx Conference: Web 2.0 digitizes the customer

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

Hey, I’m (sort of) liveblogging John Battelle’s search presentation which is currently … online via WebEx conferencing. John’s always interesting to hear, but this is more about the process than the content. I did like his slide noting that Web … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, search, Social Networks, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments

Advertising as Snake Oil. Wanna buy a bottle?

Posted on April 23, 2007 by

Via Aaron Wall an excellent article post by John Andrews suggesting how difficult it is to find legitimate SEO people among the ocean of pretenders and deceivers. There is some irony here though. This point is not lost on many … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, blogs, SEO, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment

Tweet, Tweet?

Posted on April 22, 2007 by

New York Times is talking about Twitter, the social media chat application that is storming onto the internet faster than you can twitter to your friends as well as the public at large about what you are doing at the … Continue reading →

Posted in news, Social Networks, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments