So last week I was down at SMX East 2009 in NYC. I had a blast, both during business hours and afterwards. During business hours, though, I was blogging and video blogging for NVI. Well, of all the video interviews I did, here’s the one I enjoyed doing the most — and I’m not even [...]
It looks like Microsoft’s (MSFT) re-entry into search with the launch Bing.com might have less to do with taking on Google (GOOG) as a search engine, and more to do with entering more uncharted waters: cloudvertisingg. Of course, this would still be putting them in direct competition with GOOG, but in more of a proactive [...]
The only real reason that Yahoo! remains to be relevant is Flickr. Now, by relevant, I don’t mean profitable, long-term viable, or responsible for x-thousands of jobs. I mean only that “if it was gone, people would miss it.” Flickr is the only real part of the Yahoo! portfolio that really gets it. And it [...]
It’s been a busy week in the world of newspapers. While publishers continue to watch their revenue streams dry up, entrepreneur Steve Brill, former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz and cable guy-turned-investor Leo Hindery, Jr. think they have the answer: an online paid-content model. In any case, both these events have generated a considerable [...]
As I write this, I am at Affiliate Summit 2009 where everyone’s talking about making money online. It’s different than other Geek Conferences that way: less BS evangelizing about Web 2.0 and more of the bottom line. And that got me thinking about this
I shot this back in November when Michael Gray helped me with some PageRank problems. Shortly after shooting the video, the problems inexplicably re-occured, so I put off on posting the vid. Since then, however, Google did another PageRank update, and my own PageRank was almost fully restored (to a 4). I am confident that [...]