Rethinking Ratings
An analysis of current television ratings methods, why they’re inappropriate for the timeless internet and digital video recorder era, and suggestions for improving them.
Where are the Editors?
Fellow blogger John Allsopp (dog or higher) writes about the future of blog reading, and how we’ll go from reading blogs to reading single posts. In my personal experience, that’s exactly how it goes. Although I subscribe to several blogs, I find myself not checking them very often, instead relying on Google, Digg or Del.icio.us…
Google Buys YouTube for US$1.65 Billion in Stock
According to an MSN Messenger Alert I just received, MSNBC is reporting that Google has indeed bought YouTube for US$1.65B in stock. More details as they come in. UPDATE: Both TechCrunch and Mashable have confirmed the story at this time. UPDATE 2: Google has issued a press release.
Why Google Should Buy YouTube
There’s been a lot of speculation lately about a possible Google buyout of Internet video website YouTube for US$1.6B. A lot has been said about the potential value (or lack thereof) of YouTube and its future success (or demise). But why, exactly, would Google drop one-and-a-half billion dollars on YouTube? After all, Google already operates…
The Paris Hilton School of Blogging
So there I was, wide awake in my bed, wondering if the Crestor was keeping me from catching some much needed Zzzzs, when I decided to scramble over to my HP Media Center PC and check what was new on Digg. Over on my number two display, a trusty old 17″ BenQ FP731, my RSS…
Can Google News (or ESPN) predict the future?
A funny thing happened today… I was searching Google News for tennis, wanting to read up on Andre Agassi’s amazing five-setter last night against Marco Baghdatis at the US Open. Amazingly enough, second among the search results was the following text: “ESPN: On late Thursday night Andre Agassi bowed out of the US Open… ……
Google’s Flickr Killer – Part 2
This is a follow up to my post: Google’s Flickr Killer. As I’ve already mentioned, a photo organizing and editing tool that runs on your computer (and not over the web) -such as Picasa- is an integral part of the equation. If I could upload straight from Picasa into Flickr, I would use my Flickr…
Google’s Flickr Killer
… or why Yahoo needs to buy a desktop photo managing app, pronto. I’ve been using Flickr for a while now – I even have a Pro account (I previously used smugmug). I also use Picasa to manage my photos (having tried several versions of Adobe’s Photoshop Album). I like Picasa’s simplicity, instant image fix-ups,…
Google Media
Google Media How Google will change the way you experience music, television and media in general. Google, Google, everywhere It seems you can find Google just about anywhere these days. Internet search? Check. Satellite mapping? Check. Photos? Check. Online shopping? Check and check. Advertising? Check. Web analytics? Check. Finance? Check. Video? Check. Music and television?…
I Got 50 Gmail invites
Google must be really happy because of great earnings news… ’cause they just gave me 50 invites to give away. Want one? Post something nice -anything- and I’ll hook you up with one.