There is an inherent competitiveness within the media industry, and any given entity goes about its business as though parallel organizations don’t exist – and throwing the competition a hyperlink is tantamount to endorsement. After all, if you sell shoes, you wouldn’t willingly direct customers to another shoe store, would you?
Yahoo Missing That Vision Thing
Not much information has emerged in the wake of Yahoo’s executive all-day meeting, other than the attendance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs as inspirational speaker.
What’s Missing from the New Microsoft Live Search?
Marketing Pilgrim readers had a heads-up yesterday to expect a new interface and index from Microsoft’s Live Search.
Google Shows Support For Missing Soldiers
Google Israel made an interesting gesture today on its home page: it posted (in Hebrew) the phrase “thy children shall come again to their own border,” which refers to two kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Some have called this “moving,” and it’s definitely unusual.
Missing From the UGC Viability Discourse
In this wave of the Internet economy, investors are self-consciously considering investing in plays that depend on "user-generated content." In the past, Internet investments were more haphazard. Today’s discourse is much more sophisticated.
So naturally, in discussions of the viability of burgeoning online communities, a big question is: why would anyone contribute? Why would you upload a video? Why would you write a product review?
Missing the Point: Blog Post Themes
It happens to all writers at one time or another. It may be an occupational hazard that occurs when fingers tap keyboards. A reader will misunderstand the point of your blog post. There may even be issue taken with a very obscure part of the article. Instead of debate taking place over the main theme of the column, some obscure section may find itself the topic of various interpretations.
Marketers Still Missing Social Media Target
BIGResearch’s latest simultaneous Media Usage Study raises a big flag for marketers and PR practitioners: you’re operating in a new reality of a consumer controlled communication model.
Completely Missing The Point About Browser Safety
Apparently, if certain directions aren’t written in bold-face type that practically scream at you, it’s not your fault if your kid accesses pornography, or at least that seems to be the mentality of some knee-jerk news reporters in the Internet news world. According to an article appearing at WFAA.com (beautifully pointed out by Techdirt), the […]
Handling Missing Data
I have an old Perl project that goes out to a Government web site, ftp’s some files, massages them in various ways, and spits out some output. Over time, the project grew, and now does more than it used to.
Google Missing Important Marketing Angle
I was just over reading Steve Rubel’s blog where he links to a BusinessWeek article about Google and its struggles to improve its business.