Sirius and XM Consolidate
Ahh, yes, I will jump on the bandwagon and talk about Sirius and XM merging. No, not so I too can get on the top of TechMeme (it’s too late to play that game, if you want to get to the top of TechMeme you’ve got to be early, or you’ve got to say something interesting about the news, like Doc Searls did).
Since I’m late and not interesting, we’ll give up on that game, OK? Heheh.
Minimum Bids Gave AdWords Users Fits
Google said the problem with minimum bids skyrocketing after routine maintenance had nothing to do with adjustments to how Quality Score is calculated.
Less Than
Call it premature, a key indicator, or room for some great developer to still bust this space wide open, but Google is by far the undisputed champ of online collaborative productivity tools since October ’06 — five months ago.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings’ MegaPanel, Google Docs and Spreadsheet users, all 445,762 of them, represent 92 percent of online collaborative productivity tool users.
Cerf: Cell Phones To Drive Internet Growth
There are about 5.5 billion people on the planet. Roughly 2.5 billion of them use cell phones.
Only 1.1 billion surf the Web.
So when Vinton G. Cerf, who currently serves as Google’s vice president, states that mobile phones will fuel the growth of the Internet, well . . . maybe we should believe him.
“The mobile phone has become an important factor in the Internet revolution,” said Cerf. “You will get those other 5.5 billion people only when affordability increases and the cost of communication goes down.”
JetBlue CEO Hits YouTube
In another display reinforcing the idea that JetBlue understands how to communicate in a crisis, CEO David Neeleman has produced a video and had it uploaded to YouTube. Neeleman doesn’t read-in fact, he comes across as very human with a lot of "umms" as he speaks off-the-cuff, probably from a simple outline of things he wanted to cover.
Get That Site Back Up Before It’s Delisted
If you’re site goes down for whatever reason, get it back up quickly or risk being de-listed from Google’s index.
Though it has been thought there may be somewhat of a grace period, it now seems robots only notice what’s there when they arrive.
Micro-Business Execs Spend More Time Online
JupiterResearch, a firm that provides information on the impact of the Internet and consumer technologies on business, has found that executives operating very small businesses or micro-business executives are unique when it comes to their online behavior when compared to other online users and business executives.
AdaptiveBlue Finds New Funds
AdaptiveBlue’s name may imply change, but Union Square Ventures likes the company the way it is. That’s what I infer, anyway, from the venture capital firm’s decision to fund AdaptiveBlue. But the amount of money involved remains unknown, so it’s hard to say exactly how fond Union Square Ventures is of its new friend.
Video Analytics with Vidmeter Tracker
Vidmeter is a site I’ve found useful lately as the best way to find good/hot videos on the web as it tracks videos across all the major video sites and shows interesting data about them as well.
Larry Page Talks AI
Larry Page talked about artificial intelligence [Video] at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (keep in mind that Google wants to build the world’s top AI lab, according to their internal goals):