Archive for July, 2007
Posted on July 29, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized |
Running into an article in Art Technica on US broadband policy got me thinking again about the shape of language on the web. Today, the web is predominantly English. Nobody knows exactly how many of the world’s 15b webpages are in English, but estimates are between 65 – 80%.
Most readers of this webpage will probably have had [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2007. Filed under: Microsoft, Privacy, Search Engines, ad exchanges |
Yesterday was the Microsoft Analyst Day and if you needed any more proof that the Redmond Giant was serious about taking the lead in online advertising just note CFO Chris Liddell’s observation that MSFT spent more acquiring aQuantive than they have ever spent on R&D.
The $6b deal was steep relative to a potential early take-out [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2007. Filed under: Facebook |
Howard Morgan – First Round Capital VC, internet pioneer and all-around genius rockstar in my book – once said online advertising was like the “Wild, Wild West” in a innovation management class from my last semester of business school. So true. But the while the West was gradually settled with railroads, cars and then suburbs, the [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2007. Filed under: Yahoo!, social networks |
Last night, on my way to bed, I made a quick stop at TechCrunch and found out that Yahoo has a new social network, Mosh. Minutes later it came out that Google is sponsoring a CMU SocNet project, SocialStream. Is this W-O-W news?
We probably could have guessed that both companies had projects in development. But whereas SocialStream looks pretty [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2007. Filed under: social shopping |
“Trezr aggregates online deals, coupons, and money-saving tips from around the web. It is entirely user-driven and boasts an impressive feature set…”
So Trezr would be just another social shopping site with its anemic traffic and cookie cutter web 2.0 design, except its 1) for sale on eBay and 2) brilliantly monetized. Setting aside the valuation exercise for [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2007. Filed under: Facebook, social networks |
The social media blogosphere is buzzing about a comScore report on Facebook’s impressive growth from May ‘06 – ‘07. Back in September ‘06, some observers proclaimed trouble at the SocNet’s move to open up, saying it would kill the site’s exclusivity, a primary factor in its appeal. But with improved privacy controls and the ever-spiraling popularity race for new friends, Facebook has thrived and effectively [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized |
Welcome to MetaMash. I’ll be blogging on all things interesting in tech, new media and marketing.
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