This is going to be a very big deal. Or forgettable. I am not sure which. I had a conversation with a NYT reporter about this today. (Story here, but I was not quoted). It made me think. First off, this product was not launched by Eric, Sergey, or Larry. So who knows if this is a Big Deal Inside Goo...

I'm Thinking Out Loud about Blogger and Google and......Twitter. yeah, I'm writing about Twitter a lot, but hell, it's the most interesting thing in search in a while, and things keep popping up that spark my mind. This post from Google, for example. It's titled "Blogger connects to Google Friend Co...

Ars covers a Pew report that says 11% of American's have used Twitter or a similar service. I find that hard to believe. What I don't find difficult to believe is how mobile Twitter users are: Overall, Pew observes that Twitter users engage news and technology at roughly the same rates as everyone e...

(Second in an ongoing series, part one here ) I've been thinking a lot about the world of "print" lately. I'm not alone. Everywhere I look, another story declares newspapers and magazines dead or dying. I disagree that the essence of what print has stood for will die (in short, storytelling), but I ...

I've been saying this for quite sometime, that you cannot be half pregnant when it comes to marketing - if you do search, you must do branding, and vice versa. Here's yet more proof: Display and search are directly correlated, judging by a Specific Media study of comScore data. Brand- and segment-re...

ouroboros This is huge for Twitter. As search becomes totally incorporated into the Twitter interface, the service will hit a critical inflection point. Search as its interface is the problem and the solution, and it's great to see the progress being made (yes, finally). Twitter people search. As fo...

Perhaps the best example of a company leveraging new media to turn nasty customer complaints into happy customer evangelists is Comcast. Yes, you read that right, Comcast. This nifty piece of conversational jujitsu has been accomplished in large part by Frank Eliason, better known by his handle @com...

The Journal pokes a beehive about YouTube's revenue, which is not what it should be and is a real thorn for Google. In light of the Viacom case, this is very interesting stuff. Then Cuban claims the porn issue means Google will lose - it only sells ads on non porn content, meaning it's filtering, me...

If you have the time, and the will, read this from Adam at Fortune. It's one Yahoo employee's rant about the ongoing turmoil...and it's really, really dark humor. Really, really dark. As someone who has, in a minor key, been through really tough times as the head of an organization that is failing, ...

Danny argues that Google is unfairly dominating the Firefox toolbar. I think he's right. Microsoft is not even among the choices, and Google is the default. Google, of course, represents the majority of Mozilla's revenues (Mozilla is the company behind Firefox). Danny's most interesting point is how...