Is The Justice Dep t Really Thinking About Going After All Of Google s Business On Antitrust?
We ve been somewhat confused by the talk of an antitrust action against Google for its ad deal with Yahoo (which doesn t seem likely to raise prices despite what critics say). However, it s become increasingly clear that the gov t is very likely goi...
WordPress Wednesday News: 4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts
Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2...
Gnip More Than Ping Spelled Backwards
While hanging out at the TechCrunch50 conference, I ran into Eric Marcoullier, who recently launched his second startup, Gnip. We were supposed to talk about Gnip almost a month ago, but for some odd reason it didn t happen. I was curious, because ...
Why Participating on Web 2.0 Sites Should Not Replace Blogging
Web 2.0. Social media. New media. Join the conversation.Whatever you want to call it, there is a big shift happening on the internet. Instead of just consuming information, more and more online users are become publishers.Web 2.0 sites like forum...
Feds right to scrutinize Google-Yahoo!
Media critic Jeff Jarvis pleads Google Inc. s [GOOG] case after the U.S. Department of Justice hired an outside attorney to examine the search company s advertising alliance with Yahoo! Inc.......
What s Hot at CTIA? Social Networking for Starters
CTIA seemed a bit quiet yesterday, but granted that was a day before the show floor opened. I m glad I was around yesterday because I got the chance to see some really cool stuff - in addition to the nano-chromatics announced by Apple. For those of y...
An Insiders Perspective: How to Avoid a Yahoo-Like Tabulation Nightmare
An Insiders Perspective: How to Avoid a Yahoo-Like Tabulation NightmareAs part of the Fall issue of InvestorRelationships.com, I got to spend some quality time with my good friend, the independent inspector Carl Hagberg to conduct an interview entitl...
We hate success
The Justice Department has hired a litigator to look at going after Google and its growing dominance in advertising. This isn t surprising, of course. It s the yin-yang of American business: we love success stories but we hate too much success. T...
Jet Blues
As if the airlines didn t have enough bad news, today we learn how American Airlines lost a human body, United s stock tanked from a newspaper misprint, and JetBlue resorted to eBay to auction off airline tickets.Actually, when I heard that last pie...