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...

RIM stirred the pot yesterday when they unveiled the BlackBerry App World (the new renamed Blackberry application store), and details of their pricing plans leaked out.  The two most important details: RIM has set the pricing tiers for App World, and in the process eliminated $.99 and $1.99 as pric...

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...

There's an interesting article in The New York Times about newspapers working with Yahoo to sell online ads. The newspaper partnership with Yahoo has always been a mixed bag, but clearly the ability to leverage Yahoo's Web know-how to teach traditional print ad reps to sell online ads is pay...

As I mentions in yesterday's post, I started twittering. This has been very strange. It feels like firehose of small messages. Some call it microblogging. There is a lot for me to learn! And there are so many differences with how people use Twitter. And some people - even professionals - seem to twi...

If you want some idea why the San Francisco Chronicle is on the brink of extinction, just take a look at its Web site, SFGate. It's a perfectly adequate newspaper Web site–and that's the problem. Newspapers have been fumbling their Web sites for years, and that's one reason why the fut...

Is the European Commission living in the past?  For a few weeks now, news outlets have been reporting that the Bureaucrats of Brussels are planning to essentially re-open the browser anti-trust case against Microsoft, demanding that Microsoft allow the browser to be wholesale replaced in the operat...

Don’t let the roadblocks get in your way any longer. Social media can work hard for your business if you get started on the right track. These sites enable you to manage your message in ways that elevate your credibility......

As mentioned in an earlier blog, I attended Radio Ink's tech conference a couple of weeks back.  The strong turnout was one of the most impressive aspects of the event.  At a time when companies discourage convention attendance for any number of reasons, a big meeting room was jammed...

OK, who had the San Francisco Chronicle in the daily newspaper dead pool? Probably everybody. Hearst Co.'s announcement that it is considering closing the Chronicle, barring a sale (less than unlikely) or significant concessions from its unions (less than likely) really is no surpris...