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Category Archives: Google
OpenSocial: The Lowest Common Denominator?
Google’s OpenSocial is becoming the lowest common denominator for application integration in the social media space. That’s actually not that great for Google as it is rarely the case that the most successful applications run on the lowest common denominator … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Facebook, Google, MySpace, social media, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Digital Media, Facebook, Google, Industry News, MySpace, Social computing, social media, social networking, startups, Web 2.0, Web Services
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Walt Mossberg and Verizon’s Move to Open Its Network
I’m listening to Walt Mossberg speak at the Dow Jones Consumer Innovations conference. He began by pointing out that Verizon didn’t give him any credit when they announced the opening of the Verizon network. This is a huge deal, by … Continue reading
Google Addressing the "Facebook issue"
I’ve been slammed with two financings but this news merits taking time on a Sunday night to blog… Ever since word got out that Brad Fitzpatrick (previously chief architect at Six Apart) had joined Google people had a pretty clear idea what Brad’s … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, SaaS, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Google, Industry News, Polaris Venture Partners, SaaS, Social computing, startups, Web 2.0
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Emerging Ecosystems & Platforms
I’m at David Kirkpatrick’s iMeme conference in SF. It’s likely going to be a treat. The speakers and the attendees are of great caliber. As an ex-platform guy who’s recently spent a lot of time thinking about social infrastructure, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Google, Microsoft, SaaS, startups, virtual worlds, Web 2.0
Tagged B2C, Digital Media, Google, iMeme, Microsoft, network effect, SaaS, Social computing, social networking, startups, virtual worlds, Web 2.0, Web Services
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Enterprises, Everybody Wants Your Data
As storage gets cheaper, enterprises small and large accumulate more and more information. Finding the right information at the right time is becoming harder and harder. Information comes from many sources: email, IM, the Web and intranets, employee’s desktops, enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Microsoft, startups
Tagged ECM, Google, Industry News, Microsoft, Microsoft Office 2007, Office 2007, OpenOffice, Polaris Venture Partners, startups
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Google Targets Enterprises With Postini Acquisition
Another strategic move by Google–buying Postini for $625M. Postini has been a leader in the hosted email/IM security, archiving and compliance space. In addition to having well-thought out service offerings, the company has been able to operate on a big scale … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Microsoft
Tagged Google, Industry News, Microsoft, Polaris Venture Partners
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Google Gears Powers Web-to-Desktop Convergence
Google Gears will bring offline processing to AJAX applications, which promises to be a step towards closing the last big delta between traditional desktop and Web 2.0 applications. Web-to-desktop convergence is a very interesting topic and one that is bound to … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Google, SaaS, Web 2.0
Tagged Adobe, Google, Industry News, SaaS, Web 2.0
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Playing Monopoly in the Advertising Space
So, let’s see: Microsoft buys aQuantive for $6B (2x price premium suggests some deal competition) Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1B (beats Microsoft) WPP buys 24/7 Media for $649M (Microsoft was also looking at it) Yahoo buys Right Media for $680M … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Google, Microsoft, Mobile, startups
Tagged Advertising, Bubble 2.0, Google, Industry News, Microsoft, Mobile, startups
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Perception and Reality: Why It Makes Sense For Google To Pay $3.1B For DoubleClick
Perception and reality sometimes have a twisted relationship. That’s particularly true in cases where being perceived as the leader makes you the leader. We tend to see these types of self-fulfilling prophecies in aggregator / market maker and other critical … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Google, Microsoft
Tagged Advertising, Google, Industry News, Microsoft
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Mobile giants plot secret rival to Google
Courtesy of my friend Ajit Jaokar comes this speculation, reported in the Telegraph. Europe’s biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the US giants. Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche … Continue reading