Controlling the junction between device and the internet is a rather vital strategic battleground – and that is what’s at the core of what makes Google’s Chrome so interesting. Two pieces of software facilitate that connection, the device’s operating system and the browser that renders the web. Once you’re on the web, Google is king, [...]
Filed under: Mobile | Tagged: 3G, Chrome, Explorer, Firefox, Google, HTC Touch Dual, Microsoft | 1 Comment »
This was BBC World’s first question just now. In the heat of the camera’s glare, I said ‘Well yeah, it is pretty cool’. I wish now I’d said: ‘Well if you think search engines are cool… ‘ but after time to cogitate I think there seems to be only one thing that Cuil does better [...]
Filed under: Search, web 2.0 | Tagged: Cuil, Delicious, Google | Leave a Comment »
Extract: “The key to how the iPhone would fundamentally affect the mobile industry was always going to be how it forced innovation at the incumbent players. The latest example is Nokia’s bold step to buy its partners out of their shares of Symbian, make it free for developers to develop on, and free to handset [...]
Filed under: Mobile | Tagged: Android, Apple, Google, Gphone, iPhone, Mobile, Nokia, Symbian | 3 Comments »
Well the Circus Street blog is sleeping now while we work out how to integrate what we all think with our forthcoming new site so I’m back on here with random musings. Also, having enjoyed working on WordPress on the Circus blog, I’ve moved Media Quake over here. Finding it more flexible, better looking and [...]
Filed under: Mobile | Tagged: Android, Google, Media Quake, Mobile | Leave a Comment »
It seems years ago now – it was a few I guess – but the Googlezon vision of what could happen where search meets shopping creeps ever closer. Google and Amazon aren’t as far as I’m aware making eyes at each other, but – as Techcrunch US has it – Amazon is increasingly becoming a [...]
Filed under: Retail, Search | Tagged: Amazon, ebay, Google, stumbleupon | Leave a Comment »
It occurs that, as Duncan Riley of Techcrunch US muses, there will potentially be a gap for a number three in the search/display ad network/2.0 tech space, should the deal between MS and Yahoo go through. That brings up the question of who can step up to fill the void and it seems clear that [...]
Filed under: Display advertising, Search | Tagged: Ask, Atlas, Bluelithium, DoubleClick, Google, IAC, Microsoft, News Corp, yahoo | Leave a Comment »
Incredible. Not that it has happened but that it happened so fast. As most industry bods have commented in recent days, months and years (in Michael ‘Techcrunch’ Arrington’s case), the sale of Yahoo to Microsoft seemed possible. However, none of us thought it would happen so quickly and it’s still such a gargantuan deal that [...]
Filed under: Display advertising, Search | Tagged: Google, Microsoft, yahoo | Leave a Comment »
Results here http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/229397472x0x163792/d27edf0c-7cd0-476c-9929-2eac03454c6f/163792.pdf and conference call here http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/earnings/2007/Q4/ The longs and the shorts of it are: Yahoo is investing heavily in building its display ad platforms on its own sites, through its newly-acquired networks, and through partnerships with key affiliates (like AT&T and BT, for example). It believes online display is still ripe for double-digit [...]
Filed under: Display advertising, Search | Tagged: Google, Microsoft, yahoo | Leave a Comment »
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