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There are good conversations being had around data portability and companies leveraging clouds to create their own, er, clouds.
The idea of creating an extensible social network is not new, but more than ever I think there are tools to harness this data and create new communities built on people’s prior connections and networks. For […]

Nicholas Carr has a post up in AdAge talking about the shift that is underway in technology and how this will affect industries like advertising. I think it will be a natural shift and we will be see more deals between advertising and SaaS. There are concerns with this model, clearly, but there are also […]

Noah wrote a post on Gawker artists.
Got me thinking…..
If you believe that online advertising should be media, than it is on the marketers and publishers to make sure that the advertising reflects it.
The way the web is going with the larger online media companies(Google, MSFT, AOL) shifting away from premium inventory in favor […]

I like what Google says here. It seems pretty honest to me.
Why we’re buying DoubleClick
In summary, we’re buying DoubleClick because:
1) DoubleClick’s products and technology are complementary to our search and and content-based text advertising business, and give us new opportunities to improve online advertising for consumers, advertisers and publishers.
2) Historically, we’ve not allowed […]

This is an awesome feature. Now I have a fully searchable index of every email I have ever sent or received from this domain with a slick little ajaxy GMail interface.
Yikes, Google seems way ahead in the online app game…..
But maybe not, maybe this blog post and my excitement over GMail IMAP integration is […]