Business

Looks like a Denver and a Dallas newspaper are going to follow along with News Corp. in their desire to pull down content from Google. It kills me to read this stuff as it is like they really believe anyone is going to notice!
Look, let’s be honest here. No one not in a retirement home [...]

It’s almost like this article is describing street view for museums. And I guess if you consider the fact that taking a ton of pictures, then allow people to navigate around the museum via those pictures in a 3D like experience…yeah, it is a lot like street view.
The concept does hold strong when you consider [...]

I really don’t believe that there is any way that Google is taking the news of the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal without a fight. Perhaps not so much in the public light, but behind the scenes, at some basic level.
The thing is that while Bing-Hoo is hardly a threat to the mind share that is Google, it [...]

Strong collaboration is key to the success of any medium to large enterprise these days. With the economy not being what it once was, now more than ever everyone needs to be in tune with those surrounding them in the work place.
And like collaboration, the iPhone is fast becoming a workplace favorite despite the mixed [...]

I believe that Twitter waiting on including advertising is a good thing. Not because there is anything wrong with ads, rather they are making strides to not become the cesspool of off-topic advertising we see over at Facebook, Digg among other Web 2.0 sites.
Honestly, I believe Twitter taking their time with monetizing their efforts will [...]

I really don’t believe there is any question that these days, AOL has VERY little going for it. Honestly, about the only thing of interested provided by the company at this point is their video offerings that almost compete with Hulu.
And with what I consider to be an identity crisis of the moment, it [...]

While I can understand where Amazon is coming from, at the same time i think that Amazon needs to really consider the following - Google/Amazon working together at any level only works to benefit both companies in the long haul.
Yes, I think it was not cool that Google was able to scan books without permission, [...]

While the rest of the online ad spend is down, I am willing to bet that in select niches with Google AdSense, money is still being made hand over fist. Based on what I am reading in this article, it appears that my suspicions might actually be right.
Truth be told, I think that it has [...]

Ask anyone these days, they will tell you the future of the web is largely based on how we interact with one another. Bundle this mindset with video and you have where Google is trying to take things in the future.
To help further this along, Google is also hoping to include the purchase of a [...]

Rather than take a page from others in the let’s bash NewsCorp because the company doesn’t get it, let’s look at this with some intelligence. First of all, if NewsCorp was such a failure, it would have died a long time ago. Where they are hitting a wall is in the complete and total lack [...]

Speaking strictly on the numbers, taking three search companies and essentially turning them into two is not better for competition in the slightest. Micro-hoo is good for each other, not us as the end user. They only stand to provide value for themselves and maybe if they don’t screw this up, the share holders of [...]

Clearly the NY Times among other newspapers, needs to cut the fat and quickly. Sadly though, it seems like most newspapers refuse to catch this in time and hence, we see the ongoing newspaper bust taking place before us.
In this article, I was fascinated with a relatively obvious solution to the issues facing newspapers today. [...]

While I am not really much of a fan of the AP, I cannot say I blame them for being cheesed off when people stoop to stealing their content. I have gone through this enough myself, so I can understand their perspective there.
But to say you want to prevent the “headlines” from appearing in search [...]

Perhaps Yahoo has forgotten it was trying to compete in search? Instead, opting to buy out more stuff it cannot really afford. Laying people off so it can buy out this wonderful piece of whatever.
Named Xoopit, this is a service that could very well be added to Yahoo’s roster of failed purchases. After all, what [...]

Even though Yahoo is no Google by any stretch, they still happen to bring in more eyeballs than most websites and portals ever hope to. I guess it is easy to forget this from time to time.
As you can see from this link here, Yahoo remains king of the jungle for a number of sectors [...]

Over the past few days, there has been a bit of speculation about the possibility of Netflix being bought out by the likes of Amazon or even Microsoft — depending on where you read about it.
If run right, Netflix has the potential to be an even bigger powerhouse than it is already. Assuming it is [...]

When I first heard about Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com talking about how everything with computing will look like Twitter, I thought surely I must be misreading something someplace? Alas, I was not misreading anything and he was serious in stating that real time search results is where things are at.
Now I might be willing to agree [...]

Google Books just keeps getting better and better. Now we see embedded links, improved search within each book itself, a thumbnail view, contents in a drop down menu and even plain text books!
Perhaps most important of all though, is the improvements made with the book overview page. This can make or break whether or not [...]

It’s one of those things were we look back at the ’90s and wonder why we were not smart enough to invest in single word domain names! Ah, I remember… seems to me that they were priced a lot higher back then. Still, knowing what I know now, it would have made me a fortune.
Well [...]

As shocking as this might seem, it appears that some of Microsoft’s worst nightmare is coming to life. While they maintain a strong hold on the Office suite market, it is difficult to argue with the pricing difference between what Google can offer and what Microsoft is selling.
No real surprise that Google has been able [...]