Microsoft Buying Yahoo: Rumors Reappear
A year ago, the two companies were reportedly in talks about a merger, but those conversations were dismissed as rumors and speculation. Well, here’s Microsoft and Yahoo 2.0.
Yahoo Shuttering Photos
One of Brad Garlinghouse’s ‘Peanut Butter Manifesto’ consolidation wishes is coming true, in a way, as Yahoo will be closing down its Photos service in favor of Flickr.
AOL’s Plan Working
AOL changed their strategy last year by shifting from a subscription-based service to offering most of their services and content for free. In doing so they focused their energies on advertising.
Once the largest Internet provider they now have 12 million subscribers, trailing Comcast who has 12. 1 million and AT&T who is the biggest provider with 12.9 million customers.
Obama Hijacks MySpace Page, Mails Howard Dean
Talk about mixed emotions. I like Barack Obama – at least, as seen on TV – and just when I started to like him more because of a letter he sent to Democratic National Convention Chair Howlin’ Howard Dean urging him to put debate video under public license, the Washington Post reports his campaign officers butting his biggest fan out of MySpace.
Google Reader Gains Ties To Gmail
Google Reader is taking another step forward, and it’s holding Gmail’s hand as it does so. Thanks to a new feature, users can now “share something you find in Reader with someone who doesn’t use a feed reader at all.”
Creating a Social Media Bio in Typepad (without HTML)
If you are already a Movable Type or HTML expert, this post is not for you. But many fellow bloggers who are Typepad users (but not programming saavy) asked how I created my Social Media Bio and how they might do the same. For all of you that asked, here is how I hacked mine together – using a bare minimum of coding knowledge and mostly using the tools that already exist within Typepad:
Google, VW Become Partners In Crime
Google and Volkswagen have been pals for over a year, but that once-pure relationship appears to have recently devolved into a criminal partnership. It turns out that the Volkswagen home page – which is powered by a Google Search Appliance, and was also recently featured in the Google Enterprise Blog – contains some hidden text.
Europeans Want Their Online TV
Europeans like their TV viewing as much as Americans and nearly half are watching television on the Internet, according to a study from Motorola. The days of waiting until primetime to watch favorite shows are going by the wayside as users are taking control of their viewing.
Get your 15 Minutes at mesh
In case you haven’t been keeping track, it’s May already — and that can only mean one thing: the mesh conference is less than a month away.
No Goals, No Analytics!
I was reviewing some old articles on analytics when I caught last summer’s DM News Report on Analytics (PDF). I was impressed at the amount of information contained about the business case for analytics, all coming from some very intelligent people. The great thing was the consistent thread of thought throughout the entire report: Analytics is growing – and it’s more than web stats – it is marketing intelligence.