Cranky Boomers Get A Search Engine
The arrival of Cranky.com comes with features its founder, Jeff Taylor of Monster.com fame, thinks will be well received by the 50 and over crowd.
Venture Firm Heavily Finances Heavy.com
Heavy.com an online video site catering to males 18-34 has closed a $20 million financing round from Polaris Venture Partners. This is the second round of funding from Polaris, which forked over $10 million to the company in early 2006. The funding will be used to broaden Heavy’s network globally and create new brands.
Outsourcing the Grunge Work
Interesting ideas floating around today, the basic premise is that people are earning a lot of money to build and tear down ACL’s, manage routers, switches, firewalls, and other general day to day maintenance.
French Politics Goes To The Blogs
The next president of France may owe the blogosphere a debt of gratitude after toiling in “la toile,” the fabric of the Internet.
Yahoo!, Google Very Much A Part of Mobile Phone Hype
The early part of the New Year has been especially kind to the mobile phone industry in terms of positive buzz – culminating with yesterday’s Apple iPhone announcement that knocked the social media side of the web off its feet. Standing at the center of this social media storm (well, perhaps not in the middle, […]
The Future of Ask.com
ZDNet’s Donna Bogatin has an interesting interview up with Ask.com CEO, Jim Lanzone. She asks some probing questions, and Jim shares some interesting morsels.
The iPhone Reality Sets In
I was much more excited about the iPhone yesterday than I am today. Why? Cause reality is setting in.
Lee Odden Reads A Lot Of SEM Blogs
His list of over 250 blogs either directly cover search engine marketing, or provide a look at companies that are essential to the SEM world.
MySpace Goes French
Social networking site MySpace will officially launch in France this Thursday. The company has been running a beta site in France. The launch is viewed as a broader move into Europe.
Thoughts on Bid Management Tools
J. wrote me to ask what I think of bid management software, as the large agency he now works for in a search marketing capacity has asked him for his views on it.