Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 4:41 am   Year:March 4th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 4th, 2007 Google warns of Microsoft, Yahoo competition Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 4:41 am Categories: Business Models, Search, Legal, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Enterprise, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, Wall Street, Investors, Profits Tags: Google is warning shareholders of the formidable competition it faces from both Microsoft and Yahoo. Google considers Microsoft and Yahoo to be its primary competitors, acknowledging in particular that their Internet portals may have a greater ability to attract and retain users than Google does. On the Microsoft versus Google front, Google underscores the risks it faces because Microsoft has more employees and cash resources than it does. Microsoft development of features making Web ...

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Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 4:39 am   Year:March 4th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 4th, 2007 Will Google diversification pay off in 2007? Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 4:39 am Categories: Business Models, Media, Advertising, Search, Legal, Google, Government, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Radio, Print, ROI, Metrics, Newspapers, Search Advertising, Google Checkout, Wall Street, Investors, Profits Tags: Google to shareholders: Google Print Ads, Google Audio Ads and Google Checkout have had no material impact onGoogle revenues in 2006, 2005, 2004 Google must present an accurate assessment of the financial impact of its products and services in SEC mandated reports. Everywhere else, however, Google apparently is welcome to suggest all of its products and services are benefiting the Google bottom line, even while discussing its financial resul...

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Posted by Tom Foremski @ 4:29 pm   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Podtech.net is a dark horse of Silicon Valleys new media pack Posted by Tom Foremski @ 4:29 pm Categories: Media/Blogging, Silicon Valley Tags: I recentlypopped in on John Furrier and team over at Podtech.net, in their new HQ on Page Mill Road, right next to the Wall Street Journals Palo Alto printing plant. Its a perfect contrast of new and old media distribution models. Podtech is very much a media company of these times:its printing press is the Internet and its focus is on publishing video and audio content. It wants to become the YouTube of compelling video content for Silicon Valley and beyond and to take over the world, of course. These arehealthy ambitions for a Silicon Valley startup. And Mr Furriers New Jersey roots bring an extra kick to the com...

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Posted by Tom Foremski @ 4:21 pm   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Can social networks help sell beer? Posted by Tom Foremski @ 4:21 pm Categories: Trend watch Tags: I recently met with Gurbaksh Chahal, the CEO of BlueLithium advertising network and top brand management executives from Anheuser Busch, to discuss plans to use online social networks to sell beer. The research group of BlueLithium, the second largest US online advertising network, last year came up with the idea for MingleNow. It is an onlinesocial network organized around the offlineworld. Since friends gather around the same bars, restuarants and clubs, there is a potential opportunity to createsocial networks built around these common points of community.(SVW: MingleNow - social networking that mingles online and offline.) Following a private beta last ye...

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Posted by Tom Foremski @ 4:10 pm   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Is search broken? Posted by Tom Foremski @ 4:10 pm Categories: Google, Search Tags: Search engines say they use complex algorithms to help users find exactly what they want Googles "Im feeling lucky" button (btw, does anybody use it?), right below the search box implies that very thing. Thelegions of Ph.Ds working for the search engines publish oodles of scientific papers on complex mathematical concepts related to search. Recent Papers Written by Googlers A complete, co-inductive syntactic theory of sequential control and state Achieving Anonymity via Clustering in a Metric Space An Assertional Correctness Proof of a Self-Stabilizing l-Exclusion Algorithm On-the-fly sharing for streamed aggregation Programmable clustering Usin...

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Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 3:47 pm   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Web 2.0 Social Networks: Cool but marginal and unprofitable? Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 3:47 pm Categories: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Search, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Search Advertising, Social Software Tags: In Focus ? See more posts on: Web 2.0 IsCisco making the RIGHT BET on Social Networks? Not according to Om Malik who offers a "News flash" for Cisco: This social software thing ? it is too marginal, doesn’t make money and can’t make you cool. Really? Apparently Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. CEO and proud corporate owner of MySpace, didn’t get the memo! Why did News Corp. bring MySpace into its space? Murdoch shared his strategic thou...

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Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 12:50 pm   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Mitt Romney: Will political branding lead to the White House? Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 12:50 pm Categories: Culture, Government, User Generated Politics, Politics, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, John McCain Tags: In Focus ? See more posts on: Digital Politics Edition number 27 in this Digital Markets Blogpresidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling User Generated Politics Is the U.S. presidential campaign a high-powered, high-stakes one for truth, justice and the American way, or is it a high-financed, highly-packaged race for the ultimate piece of real estate, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The strategists behind Republican presidential hopefulMitt Romney may be betting more on the latter, according to The Boston Globe rep...

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Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 10:47 am   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 WordPress server hacked, downloads rigged with serious flaw Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 10:47 am Categories: Patch Watch, Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Browsers, Vulnerability research, Exploit code, Data theft, Open source Tags: Flaw, Server, Wordpress, Ryan Naraine An unknown cracker broke into a server hosting downloads of the popular WordPress blogging software and rigged the file with a remotely exploitable code execution vulnerability. News of the hack comes directly from WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg: "If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately." Mullenweg described the code planted into the downloa...

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Posted by Andrew Keen @ 10:38 am   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Do you think Im sexy? Posted by Andrew Keen @ 10:38 am Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Can we blame Web 2.0 for even the way we look? Crystia Freeland, the sexy looking (see photo) US managing editor of the Financial Times, certainly tries. In the "The beauty contest", her A-Train column in this mornings FT, she tells us that the "magnifying impact of Web 2.0" makes all of us particularly politicians more obsessed with and dependent on our physical looks: I suspect technology has made what Maureen Dowd calls the beauty bias more intense. In an era of YouTube, cellphone cameras, HDTV and a blogosphere obsessed with commenting on evidence collected by all of the above, even people who have never seen us in person may know how we look. I have to admit tha...

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Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 9:51 am   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 Super-green minivans are possible today Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 9:51 am Categories: Energy Environment, Engineering Innovation Tags: According to the Mercury News, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has designed a super-green minivan. The Vanguard is a vehicle concept that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent and exceed Californias 2016 global warming standards. This minivan, which only exists as a computer simulation, would use existing technologies and could run on a gasoline-ethanol blend. Such a vehicle would only "cost $300 more than one of todays minivans, but it would save an owner $1,300 over the lifetime of the vehicle." Of course, as UCS is not a car maker, its hard to know if such a concept will really be used by the automot...

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Posted by Dana Gardner @ 9:49 am   Year:March 3rd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

March 3rd, 2007 SOA what else is new? Posted by Dana Gardner @ 9:49 am Categories: SOA, Agile Development, business intelligence Tags: SOA actually stands for SOA Oriented Architecture. Let THAT bake your noodle. SOA is just one letter away from SOB. On purpose. The most dangerous animal in the IT jungle is the SOA constrictor. It has been known to squeeze the life out of all other IT initiatives. Software architects dont use SOA. SOA uses software architects. And other hilarious SOA-sitions. Link to BriefingsDirect podcast. Subscribe to the podcast Feed. Subscribe with iTunes. Dana Gardner is principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions. For disclosures on Danas industry affiliations, click here. Request a Consultation with Dana Gardner ...

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