The recent WSJ article on Google's difficulties monetizing YouTube has caught a lot of attention with the stat that Google can only sell ads around 4% of the videos on the site (due to copyright concerns). With roughly a billion videos viewed a day that leaves a lot of unmonetized ...
Presumably with a straight face Marshall Kirkpartrick over at Read/Write Web writes about Opera switching it's default search provider from Yahoo! to Google saying "Presumably there's some money changing hands."
Ya think? Search distribution is a big money game. Google pays $10 per box to Dell for pre-installing the Google Toolbar ...
A friend of mine, Kevin Merritt, blogged recently that folks should blog about the startups they like to help them out. In this case, I'm going to blog about things that are driving me nuts, batty, bonkers or just plain up a wall. I want to get these things off ...
Reading Stefanie Olsen's summary of this evening's sessions from the Conversational Marketing Summit (another great example of why living in Seattle can be a PITA when the center of the web 2.0 is 700 miles away and staying here can mean missing out on interesting events) reminded me of how ...
Dave McClure puts down the Facebook crackpipe to grok about Google Analytics and how it represents another layer of Google's online marketing dominance. And Dave's right - Dave and I talked extensively about this notion back at the Web Analytics Summit in SF back in May (just took Dave 2 ...
Dave Winer has been bloggingabout feedburner in response to Google's acquisition of the company. Dave is concerned about how Google might co-opt feedburner to their benefit - ie. special tie-in's to google reader for instance that might put other readers at a disadvantage (hmmm sounds a lot like what Microsoft ...
I recently switched to using google reader (google's rss reader - to which I can't believe newgator still charges for their rss reader a serious but separate are you kidding me but that's an aside). What pushed me over the edge despite my general disdain for google apps (see my ...
blist and Loomia have been keeping me busy for sure. And on top of that helping with the Casual Game Association's - seattle conference (Casual Connect) coming up next month I'm swamped! I have a bunch of posts in the backlog that I need to get on here, but in ...
Henry Blodgett (yes that Henry Blodgett) posted a good critique of the google investment in sergei brin's wife biotech startup. And to his point - what in heaven's name is google thinking? What a total PR blunder. No matter how google's kingpins try to justify this investment, the public will ...
Maybe I am the only person in the world who thinks this, but I can't stand the gmail interface. Tim O'Reilly's post reflecting on Bill Higgins post the Uncanny Valley of user interface design made me groan. Higgins talks about why gmail is better then zimbra - an up and coming open ...
