Advertising With Mark Cuban
Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion has a brief interview he did with Megaphone Mark Cuban, billionaire media mogul and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, in which the two talked about things like the “Long Tail” of the Web (and Mark’s own coinage – the “vert ramp” – and how it affects new media. As is his wont, Mark shot from the hip about what the future holds and where advertisers should be putting their money, saying:
OSS Is Changing The Game
Zack, the three examples you give appear to me as signs that OSS is under attack by vendors who don’t gork the value of an open community & the customer value delivered. Yep, even the MSFT deal with Zend.
Disappointed in Today’s News on Riya
About a year ago when Riya first launched with a big splash as a new Web 2.0 company with super exciting facial recognition software I was excited. I was super excited.
RSF Says Shame On Yahoo
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched an initiative to help increase awareness of countries that actively censor the Internet, and singled out Yahoo’s Jerry Yang for specific complaints about his company’s dealings with oppressive governments.
Is Intel Desperate?
Okay, someone explain this to me: Intel, a company that makes microprocessors, is backing and selling – but not profiting from – a suite of “Enterprise 2.0″ software for companies that includes blogging software (Typepad), a wiki (Socialtext), and RSS feed software (Simplefeed and Newsgator), called Suite Two.
Performance Profile for Apache Geronimo 1.1.1.
TheServerSide has a thread announcing that the Apache Geronimo team has released a performance profile for Geronimo 1.1.1.
Political Net Ads Low in 06
Industry analysts have been watching the worldwide web closely over the past few months to see how political ads fared in Election ’06. Surprisingly, it appears that many politicians do not see the value in paying for Internet advertising.
The Blogosphere
For those of us that reside primarily in geekdom, the state of any major technology, especially of the online variety, is big news.
Quality Content VS. Link Bait
As you probably know, there are a lot of articles on creating link bait. But what is link bait for your customers and how can you create the most efficient content?
CometQuery: Google Killer Or Meh?
It is of little doubt that every new Internet start-up, especially those related to the search industry, would like to emulate the Google success story. Hell, who wouldn’t? However, as a fledgling search engine trying to make a name, if you make the claim of being a Google killer, you had better deliver the goods. […]