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The top 3 links on a search for World Cup in Google will give you all outbound links to other sections of Google. Smart business move, but not necesarilly a search engine. Maybe Fifa will rethink its partnership with Yahoo, if over 50% of searches around the world are being done through Google. They can’t [...]

“Privacy is dead. Get over it.”
- Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy
I remember when Gmail started to run contextually relevant ads, and the first thought was, “Wow, that is some pretty impressive computational skills Google has going on over there.” But then the reality sets in that the info is being run through their servers [...]

I mean, if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right. H.T.

I am excited to say that today was my first day working with the incredible team at Federated Media Publishing.
My primary responsibility will be focused on bringing great marketers together with, what I consider to be, the finest group of growing authors assembled on [...]

MySpace was one the first to give people a glimpse into the success you can have when you give kids/young adults an online paintbrush and allow them to create, with minimal restrictions, whatever they want. A lot of people look at the style sheets on MySpace pages and cringe. But I’m pretty sure many [...]

Matt Mullenweg, on the latest Om and Niall podcast, said that Web 2.0 is a vector for spam. In a lot of ways I totally agree with him and many of the larger companies that are benefiting from this spam are the same companies that are making web 2.0 tools that allow spammers to thrive. [...]

Congrats to Tony Conrad and Sphere for landing a deal with Time Magazine. I like the idea of getting away from link cosmos and going with something like content semantic analysis. I have been a fan of Tony’s ideas since I saw him speak of his Bmodel at SXSW. Anytime you can land a distribution [...]