For the past couple of years I have been preaching the gospel of user-generated content and reviews. I often encountered considerable skepticism from former colleagues on the likely evolution and extent of the phenomenon: “People will write reviews about restaurants, but not plumbers.” In my “predictions” post, I said: “The culture of user participation and …
The rumors were true. Here’s the news. Here’s the WSJ (sub req’d) article. From ComputerWorld: The entire front of the quadband GSM phone serves as the screen, Jobs told attendees at the MacWorld Expo here this morning. He also noted that the operating system behind the phone’s various features is Mac OS X and said …
This happened late this past week and it’s already been widely reported but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Yahoo!’s new quicker, more open business details editing capability. Yahoo! is making it possible for all users to edit business profiles and/or upload photos. Yahoo! promises to allow the changes to go live with 24 …
Comcast is a bit of a sleeping giant in local: The company has a significant local sales force It’s a top 50 Web property and has a 1% search market share (Nielsen, 11/06) It has video, online and TV distribution assets It has lots of cash on hand It has a “triple play” play (TV, …
Rich Skrenta, the co-founder & CEO of Topix, has declared Google the winner of search and online advertising in a very provocative post. Here are some choice quotes: Just as Microsoft used their platform monopoly to push into vertical apps, expect Google to continue to push into lucrative destination verticals — shopping searches, finance, photos, …
One of the persistent complaints for the last year or so about Google is that it’s too powerful now — owning 45% to 60%+ of Internet search. To that end, next year will see the launch of several general-purpose search engines that seek to become the “Google killer.” The latest — like candidates running for …
Even as search becomes all-but-synonymous with the Internet for many users, there’s a paradoxical and growing sense that it’s failing. We have incredibly high expectations for search but that’s partly because it has been very successful to date. Every quarter or so it seems a new, would-be David comes out to challenge Googliath. The newest …
Some of you may have seen a couple of “off color” videos widely circulating on the Internet from the NBC TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL). Here’s the NY Times article (from today) describing the videos. As you may recall the SNL “Lazy Sunday” videos were a viral phenomenon on YouTube and actually boosted SNL’s …
When Google introduced its payments system (and more) Checkout earlier this year my belief was that it had to break with its long-standing approach of not doing any marketing and push the product because it was potentially important to the company’s future. After a slow start, Google has been doing that — though in a …
Reuters reports the announcement coming today: Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones in an expansion of their partnership, the companies plan to announce on Monday. Tweet Buffer
