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At least that’s what Business Week seem to suggest in their article ‚ÄúIs Google Too Powerful?‚Äù What’s funny is they may not be far off in suggesting that Google is trying to control the world’s information. A great portion of the article references Larry Page at a 2002 talk at Stanford. He said Google aims [...]
For many of us in the web industry, we think of Web 2.0 as old news. We don’t realize that there are thousands if not millions of people that know about Web 2.0 and have experienced it but don’t know how to embrace it. Last night at the social media club I was speaking with [...]
Tonight I attended my first Social Media Club ever. It was a great experience. I met a lot of wonderful people and engaged some great conversation. The main topic of discussion was supposed to be social media measurement but much of the conversation revolved around other topics. Topics discussed included the Viacom lawsuit against Google [...]
As many of you know, it takes a serious amount of time trying to come up with unique content for readers on a daily basis. Much of the time spent is reading RSS feeds through Google Reader, and perusing sites including Techmeme and Megite. While the job of a blogger can be streamlined, much of [...]
Not so long ago, the internet startup landscape was driven by individuals who had creative ideas and the determination to create a product. While the startup landscape is still driven by these individuals, they now have teams of people that help turn their visions into a reality. Today, while reading about the launch of MOG [...]
While all the developers in the blogosphere are working themselves into a tizzy over the new Yahoo Mail Service, Frank Gruber forwarded me an even cooler service for developers. Yesterday, Tailrank launched a new service called Spinn3r. Spinn3r provides developers with direct access to the Tailrank spider. I’ve been trying to come up with methods [...]
While Google already offered a job board for Google jobs, they haven’t launched a global job board for all jobs. At least not until now. According to threadwatch, Google is entering the job seeker market. As of now, all that you can access is screenshots of the future service, but I’m guessing an official launch [...]
Yesterday I questioned whether Facebook is near the tipping point, and suggested that they should hurry up and find an exit strategy. Then today a Pali Research analyst suggested that MySpace is generating over $30 million a month in revenues. If that’s the case, maybe Facebook doesn’t need an exit strategy. While Pete Cashmore doesn’t [...]
Although the buzz about YouTube’s mobile site started months ago when their hidden mobile site was uncovered, an official launch date has been announced. According to Katie Fehrenbacher YouTube will launch their mobile site in June of this year once their exclusive deal with Verizon has ended. Now everyone can get excited about watching other [...]