Monday, March 31, 2008 Google: tooting their own horn A little self promotion never hurt anyone, right? That’s the attitude Google adopted in recent months as they began aggressively promoting their content network, albeit...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 Canada, It’s Time to Beat London! (SES Toronto is Coming, Part I) I’d like to congratulate my friend Mike Grehan on hosting a successful SES London conference. With that perfunctory...
Monday, January 28, 2008 Google and Recession? The “Google’s going to have that bad quarter we’ve all been waiting for” prognosticators are out to play again. I think the question turns on this premise...
Sunday, December 30, 2007 Google’s Paid Links Double Standard: An Analogy Pay-Per-Post’s Ted Murphy gets into a civilized debate about why Google applies penalties to sites that use paid posting models, paid linking schemes,...
Friday, November 30, 2007 “Charlene Li bought a table” no more: Facebook retreats So Facebook has revamped the workings of their Beacon. To all you bloggerati and digital doomsayers (like me) who raised a...
Sunday, October 28, 2007 Stale Concepts: AOL Search, Not Minty Fresh Every so often, I sort out and clean up, er, “archived” past notes, schwag, and mementoes from past conferences and trips. Doing this...
Friday, September 28, 2007 The Arrogant Corporation, The Naked Corporation, The Scandalized Public, and… Do companies taking sneaky or heavy-handed actions not stop to think about the context of radical transparency in which they...
Thursday, August 23, 2007 Mahalo – Doomed? My Response to Skrenta In today’s SES San Jose panel on User-Generated Content (moderated by Rebecca Lieb and co-presenting were Matt McGee and Lee Odden), I looked...
Monday, July 30, 2007 NowPublic Now Really Rolling Vancouver-based NowPublic, a “crowdsourced” news site, got ink today for closing a hefty round of funding. Among other things, this is a healthy rebound morale-wise for...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 An Open Letter to Jerry Yang Welcome aboard, Chief Yahoo. I did a little asking around, to some people that matter in the industry, people that care about your search...