Back in the early days of grad school, when questions about the future of online advertising came up, I was bullish about the future of location-based mobile advertising that would by contextually relevant to the content you were viewing and the place you were sitting.
I was wrong about a big piece of how this would [...]
All about google
Street by street, block by block
January 8, 2010
Repackaging the unbundled
September 17, 2009
Scott Karp (yes, he’s my boss over at the office) is more fascinated than I am about Google’s new FastFlip, but he’s wisely focusing on the fact that it’s an experiment with a new user experience for online news, and not implying that it’s something poised to Save Journalism.
Scott’s latest post on the topic argues [...]
Two Google News workarounds
September 20, 2007
Rob comments at Lost Remote:
“I try to work around the Google News situation by posting almost all of our video content to YouTube. So far that’s one place where our content hasn’t been usurped by AP. We also are trying to blog breaking news – and sending automated updates to Technorati in the process – [...]
All I’m going to say about the Google/AP thing
September 4, 2007
Google News now links to wire stories from the original source (AP, AFP, etc.), hosted by Google, in addition to the 5,137 versions of each wire story posted at individual news sites.
Three reasons why this is good for newspapers:
Newspaper.coms no longer have to spend time, money, and resources on trying to build the best semantic, [...]
5 important things that happened in the last 10 days
In no particular order, with little commentary, and limited accuracy on that whole “10 days” concept:
Google Friend Connect: Just the tip of the iceberg.
YouTube Citizen News: Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate.
Disqus + Seesmic Video Comments: Say it, don’t spray it?
MySpace and Facebook data availability: Bring your profile to the party.
3G iPhone coming in June at $199: Guaranteed [...]
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