Big Guys Go Startup Shopping
I’m still trying to recover from the incredible two days that was the mesh conference, and will be posting updates and links to video, blogs, photos and reviews as I come across them, but in the meantime here’s a cross-post from my Globe and Mail blog in which I try to catch up with two of the many tech deals that occurred while I was en-meshed:
The Month of Acquisitions
There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let’s look at some of the major deals that went down this past month
TLE Lowlights: Innovation?
Over the last couple of days you have probably been reading some of the highlights from the recent trip I did to Paris to attend
TLE Highlights: The Irony of Social Computing
As I have just mentioned, this is a follow up weblog post from the previous one I have shared regarding some of the highlights from IBM’s 2007 Technical Leadership Exchange event held in Paris last week.
AOL Local Search In Beta 2
AOL Local Search Beta 2 helps users find a local business or location by following three steps.
Search Engines Support Revolution Health
The Revolution Health website is, in some ways, like many others; it calls itself “a free, comprehensive health and medical information site, specifically designed with the Family’s Chief Medical Officer – women and other caregivers – in mind.” But Revolution Health is actually doing well, thanks largely to Google and Ask.
Use Your Blog to Build Trust
Rand just put up a post about The Vast Ocean Between Shoemoney & SEOmoz and Why You Should Be Able To Trust Blog Links. Other than the fact that he singled me out in it, I think it’s a great post. I started to write this post as a comment on SEOmoz, but it just got way too long.
Fact Or Fiction: Nessie, Ghosts, And “Googlenopes”
There was a very clear film of a very murky object that got released the other day; the object may or may not be the Loch Ness Monster. As for ghosts (and many other strange entities), the debate also continues. But “Googlenopes” – the term is new – do exist!
Is the New York Times on the Way Out?
With the New York Times likely to change hands for the first time in over fifty years, and the AP reporting the fastest newspaper circulation decline in over 15 years:
Try Finding a Googlenope
It appears Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post has a little time on his hands. Perhaps a whole lot of time on his hands, as he has penned an article about his quest to enter search queries into Google and find no results whatsoever.