Forget About Comcast, eBay Buying AOL
If you can’t buy Yahoo, AOL could be a consolation prize for those who won’t be able to challenge Microsoft’s Yahoo bid. It’s not the company everyone thinks will buy it.
Yahoo Lets Land Sit In Santa Clara
An empty lot or building can inspire confidence and an expectation of growth. It can also be an embarrassment, however, and that’s what a 50-acre site in Santa Clara has become for Yahoo.
Should You Let Sam’s Club Be Your SEO Company?
If the buzz is to be believed, Sam’s Club is now a search engine optimization company that is targeting the local search market aggressively. The fact is, this isn’t something new; it’s just recently come to the forefront. Sam’s Club has partnered with a company called Innuity to offer a program that is primarily targeted at small businesses looking to get noticed in the local search results.
PR Newswire & CSRWire Team up on Social Network
PR Newswire’s ProfNet expert network has partnered with CSRwire.com, the Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire, to form a social network for people who are experts in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. This new social network will allow corporate social responsibility experts to congregate and share your expertise with your peers and with the media.
Yahoo and Microsoft Overlap
Do you really have any idea how big Yahoo is, or hell, how big MSN is? There’s a lot of overlap between the two, and Long Zheng & Josh Philips have been kind enough to generate a nice chart to show the two. The chart is reproduced below, with some notes added by me regarding what I think about which service will be rolled into the other.
Mainstreaming as a Barrier to Innovation
When you visited Yahoo!, perhaps on a blogger pass, often you would find a product manager or executive extolling their mainstream virtues. Every time I’d visit I’d hear that word, mainstream, and wondered if it was some derivative of their mission or boasting of begotten power. Yahoo! arguably was the first company to mainsteam open internet services. A great accomplishment that began with linking elsewhere with something that made the net more usable. Big laurels.
Mistakes in Web Analytics
There’s a lot of talk in the measurement community about best practices–accepted methods to measure and optimize a website.
Podcasting Numbers Under Delivered?
I know that eMarketer’s numbers on the growth of podcasting should make us all feel warm and fuzzy, but I just can’t shake the feeling that the channel has severely under delivered. The good news is that US audience numbers should grow from a total audience of 18.5 million in 2007 to a whopping 65 million by 2012. Also good news, the amount spent on podcast advertising should grow from $165 million to $435 million by 2012.
Syndicating Your Blog
The idea of easy money in someone’s bank account is enough to make almost anyone stop and listen. So now that I have your attention, how can you make easy money? The answer is very simple; syndicate your blog. Well that is if you already are blogging. And if you aren’t, then you might want to consider it.
Microsoft Canada Slapped Over Copyright Op-Ed
Noted Internet law expert Michael Geist criticized an opinion piece appearing in a Canadian newspaper as “astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect.”