Facebook is set to announce this morning what many people believe is an email system that might go up against Gmail and other Web mail services. Other folks are not so sure a head-on assault on standard Web mail is a great idea, or even a likely one. In fact, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Robert [...]
Filed under: Facebook, Google, social | Tagged: Facebook, Gmail, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy, social, social networking | 2 Comments »
Two days ahead of reporting its third-quarter earnings, Google continues to gain on the combined search engines of Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing–at least in the amount advertisers are spending on search ads. That’s the conclusion of the latest surveys from two search marketing companies, Efficient Frontier and SearchIgnite. According to Efficient Frontier, Google’s share of [...]
Filed under: advertising, display, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, search, Yahoo | Tagged: advertising, Bing, display, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, search, Search Engines, Yahoo | Leave a Comment »
Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products & user experience, is holding a fireside chat at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this afternoon. One of the best-known faces of the search giant, she often provides clues to where the look and feel of Google’s signature service is heading. She’s talking with TechCrunch editor and newly minted [...]
Filed under: advertising, Android, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, mobile, search, social, Twitter | Tagged: advertising, Android, Facebook, Google, Google Instant, Google Search, Marissa Mayer, Microsoft, search, Search Engines, TechCrunch Disrupt, Twitter | Leave a Comment »
Peter Thiel may be best known for being an early investor in Facebook, though his investments look like a Who’s Who of hot (and once-hot) companies in latter-day Internet startups: Yelp, LinkedIn, Powerset, Friendster, Slide, and many more. The president of the hedge fund Clarium Capital, Thiel is speaking in a fireside chat with my [...]
Filed under: angel investing, Facebook, Silicon Valley, startups, venture capital | Tagged: Clarium Capital, Facebook, innovation, LinkedIn, Peter Thiel, social networking, venture capital | Leave a Comment »
TechCrunch Disrupt, the tech blog’s annual conference in San Francisco, is underway. I’ll liveblog the highlights of this first panel of luminaries, which is looking at Building Internet Treasures. FYI, John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, as is Bing Gordon (former longtime creative guy at Electronic Arts), and Mark Pincus is CEO of [...]
Filed under: advertising, Facebook, innovation, social, social games, startups, virtual goods, Zynga | Tagged: advertising, Facebook, FarmVille, innovation, social, social games, social networking, startups, Techcrunch, virtual goods, Zynga | Leave a Comment »
Not long after I started my farm (pictured above) on FarmVille, the leading social game on Facebook, I got a message from a friend. He was relaying a question from his wife, who had seen countless semiautomated posts to my Facebook Wall chronicling my progress in the game. Her query: “What’s the matter with him?” [...]
Filed under: Facebook, social, social games, startups, virtual goods, Zynga | Tagged: Facebook, FarmVille, Games, social, social games, Stanford University, Video Games, World of Warcraft, Xbox, Zynga | Leave a Comment »
Yahoo’s set to announce a new product strategy shortly at what it’s calling Yahoo Product Runway. I’ll blog the highlights as they come from Blake Irving, EVP and chief products officer ad Raymie Stata, VP and chief technology officer. And we’re underway, with some observations on Yahoo on Irving’s hundredth day here. Things are great, [...]
Filed under: advertising, display, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, search, social, Twitter, Yahoo | Tagged: advertising, Bing, display, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, search, social, social networking, Yahoo | Leave a Comment »
Look, I know virtual goods sounded kind of exotic–four or five years ago. But when it’s a multibillion global business today, it’s past time to dispense with the notion that crops on Farmville and flowers on Facebook aren’t really real. While I’ve been guilty of describing virtual goods as imaginary at times, what set me [...]
Filed under: Facebook, social games, virtual goods | Tagged: Facebook, social games, virtual goods, Zynga | 2 Comments »
If you can’t dominate, aggregate. That seems to be the basic model online for also-rans in whatever online activity you can think of. And so it goes with Yahoo, which despite some 500 million monthly users worldwide has spent fruitless years trying to make them socialize on countless Yahoo properties. So Sunday night Pacific time, [...]
Filed under: Facebook, Google, social, Yahoo | Tagged: Facebook, Foursquare, Google, search, social, social networking, Yahoo | Leave a Comment »
After enduring weeks of criticism over new privacy controls announced at its recent developer conference, Facebook today is announcing new, simpler privacy controls for its leading social network service. The company, whose latest changes that opened up more information sharing took many users by surprise, has promised they will be much simpler. Expectations are high, [...]
Filed under: advertising, Facebook, social | Tagged: advertising, Facebook, privacy, social, targeting | 3 Comments »
Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.
