If you can’t get a good bubble started on the Internet, then where can ya? Aye, times are indeed bad if analysts are even poopooing hot Web properties. And if it’s one thing Wall Street’s got these days, it’s credibility!
Everybody’s a Critic
For years now, the blog has been viewed as a necessary evil from a PR perspective and a direct channel for bad news traveling at light speed. That’s a fair assessment, but the Internet should be viewed as a boon to another aspect of business: quality control. It used to be there were official critics and official criticisms were published in print, read by subset of subscribers to a specific publication. Now, critics are pretty much everywhere and can publish anywhere, any time.
Microsoft: Everybody Else is Doing it
Microsoft is tracking your data.But so are Google and Yahoo!, as they are so quick to point out when confronted by the House. A classic example of the "but everybody else is doing it" excuse that they taught us in D.A.R.E. in elementary school. The drug of choice for search giants is not crack or pot though. It is ad-targeting – learning about you so they can fill your screen with advertisements from companies whose profits would be in their own best interest.
What Everybody Seems to be Missing About Google
I’m surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Yahoo. Here’s what’s really going on:
Doctors’ Network Serves Everybody’s Interests
Regular viewers of the show “House” will know that the title character’s support staff has (supposedly) left; previews for the new season have shown the brilliant doctor discussing diagnoses with a janitor. But if the fictional character knew about a network called Sermo, he’d be able to find all the expert opinions he could want.
Local Search Patent Holder Threatens Everybody
Verizon is first on a London-based company’s list of lawsuits to file (or licensing agreements to be extracted) after winning the rights to a 1999 patent for location-based search. Next up: any online service offering local search services.
If MySpace Loves You, Everybody Loves You
Did you know Photobucket controls 41 percent of photo-sharing market? Do you know why they do? Answer: MySpace, MySpace, MySpace. The News Corp.-owned social networking phenom is showing that if you really want market share, you have to win over MySpacers.
Everybody Loves Raymond, Especially Microsoft
The following is a cautionary tale for tech recruiters everywhere – do a little research on your recruiting target first.
Web Manager: You Can’t Serve Everybody
Every time you serve someone, you make someone else wait. Every time you publish a piece of content you make other content less findable.
Everybody Does the Blogosphere: comScore Blog Scores
Who blogs? Apparently a lot of people according to the new study released by comScore networks. Who reads those blogs? Even more people and the demographics involved are highly sought after by marketers of all levels. With over 50 million U.S. Internet users visiting the blogosphere, that’s a lot of market to aim for.