Friday, November 28, 2008 Do Dumb Ads Hurt Your Brand? Searching for a definition for the word “sluice,” I naturally turned to my trusty friend, Google. A not unfamiliar sight appeared in the right...
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Friday, October 31, 2008 Is Facebook the Next Geocities? Much like last time around, the most valuable (in investor valuation terms) Internet startups are building user bases first, and businesses second. Now Techcrunch is...
Monday, September 29, 2008 Bloodbath OK, enough is enough. RIMM is down another 13.5%, and GOOG is down 9.1% to this point today. BUY!! Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Do your own due...
Thursday, August 28, 2008 AdWords 2.7, Beautiful Plumage, and the Shading Effect With another major change to Google’s Quality Score formula and reporting comes much uncertainty for advertisers. The changes: fixed minimum bids have...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 YouTube and Speech Recognition The digital world will take a step towards being even more searchable when YouTube videos are annotated with metadata pulled out of speech with the aid...
Thursday, June 26, 2008 Bad News for Google’s Customers: Bell Canada Exec is New CFO Follow the logic. A Bell Canada veteran heading up the finance dept. of our favorite company, Google. Can we...
Saturday, May 31, 2008 LinkedIn Ads: I Love It! In my LinkedIn account I just came across a nice-looking ad for Search Engine Strategies Canada Conference and Expo 2008 (Toronto, 5th year!) – way...
Sunday, April 27, 2008 Killer Verticals Going back over some posts on Marc Andreessen’s fantastic blog, pmarca, I came across this post that places market (and granular product-to-market fit and timing) ahead of “team”...
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...
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...