A few things happening with Google are moving it closer and closer to the line between awesome company and massive, maybe not so “Don’t Be Evil” corporation.
First off, Google has purchased Doubleclick for $3.1 billion. Additional coverage from Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, and Google Blogoscoped. Google has been branching out into image and video ads [...]
I’ve never been a particularly big fan of the PSP, and I don’t own one myself. Still, partly through its own merits and partly through the efforts of some highly motivated and skilled hackers, the PSP is definitely a cool little toy. It’s got an admittedly extremely good screen, great graphics, a number of very [...]
Search Engine Land posted an interesting article today, on B2B search. They report that in Q206 only 59% of B2B marketers used search marketing. This figure is a bit dated, as we are about to start Q207 next week, but it seems fairly reasonable. The agency I work for, Overdrive, has a large B2B focus. [...]
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-youtube22mar22,0,326504.story
NBC and News Corp. (Aka Fox) in collaboration with Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are going to create an online video site to rival YouTube.
This is an interesting development… most YouTube competitors are of course doomed to failure from the beginning. But, with so many big name rivals all ganging up together on Google/YouTube, you have [...]
This was just brought to my attention -
From the New York Times (emphasis mine):
Two election workers were convicted of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review. The workers — Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and Kathleen Dreamer, a ballot manager — were each [...]
