What’s Coming in Internet Advertising: 12 Predictions for 2012

Posted on January 10, 2012 by robhof

I did my annual predictions first on my Forbes blog, The New Persuaders, since they’re focused largely on the Internet media and advertising I cover there. On that blog, they’re done as separate posts, but I wanted to gather them up in one place here, as I’ve done in previous years. So here’s what I [...]

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Surprise: Google Cofounder Larry Page Takes Over As CEO

Posted on January 20, 2011 by robhof

It was no secret that Google cofounder Larry Page hankered to be CEO at some point. (I should say, again–he was the founding CEO–but it always seemed from what I heard that he wanted another shot at the appropriate time.) Today, he got his wish, as Google just announced that he will take over from [...]

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What’s Coming on the Internet in 2011 (Or Not)

Posted on January 2, 2011 by robhof

I know I shouldn’t do it–predictions too often are either obvious or wrong–but I can’t help it. If I have to think about what’s coming in 2011, and I do, I might as well inflict those thoughts on the rest of the world. Isn’t that what blogging is all about? Anyway, here’s what I expect [...]

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What Happened in 2010–and Didn’t

Posted on December 30, 2010 by robhof

Somehow I persuaded myself a year ago to offer up predictions for what would happen in 2010–and what wouldn’t happen. Now it’s time to take my medicine and see how I fared. What I said would happen: * Merger mania will accelerate in technology, especially acquisitions of smaller firms. OK, so it was a bit [...]

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Google’s Marissa Mayer Live at TechCrunch Disrupt

Posted on September 29, 2010 by robhof

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 [...]

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Awesome, Facebook–But the Users Will Still Own the Web

Posted on April 21, 2010 by robhof

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his handlers clearly have found a way to replicate Steve Jobs’ infamous reality distortion field, that charismatic glow during the Apple CEO’s product introductions that seems to soften the hearts of even the most jaded skeptics. I didn’t attend the company’s F8 developers conference today, where Zuckerberg held forth on [...]

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Live at SMX: State of the Search (Marketing) Union

Posted on March 4, 2010 by robhof

Where is Internet search heading? That’s the topic of a panel on this last day of the Search Marketing Expo, the conference in Santa Clara held by Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan’s most excellent Web site. Offering their thoughts will be Vanessa Fox, contributing editor at Search Engine Land; Avinash Kaushik, analytics evangelist at Google; Misty Locke, president [...]

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Carol Bartz: Art, Science, Scale Will Revive Yahoo

Posted on March 1, 2010 by robhof

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is speaking at the 4A’s ad agency confab this morning in San Francisco, and she’s her usual frank-speaking self. She’s using the occasion to answer people’s continuing questions about Yahoo’s vision and relevance–and she says the latter is something nobody should doubt. “You better friggin’ care,” she says. What sets Yahoo [...]

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Google Buzz Won’t Kill Anything. Except Your Notions of What Email Is.

Posted on February 9, 2010 by robhof

Every time Google comes out with a new service, pundits rush to assure us that it’s going to kill this or that startup. Or the skeptical ones that it’s an attempt to kill this or that startup but won’t because it sucks in this way or that. As usual, Google Buzz, announced today and scheduled [...]

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What I’d Like to Happen in 2010 (But Probably Won’t)

Posted on January 4, 2010 by robhof

I just foolishly offered some predictions on what will happen in tech and and on the Internet this year (and what won’t happen). Now, I’d like to offer a few things that I wish would happen: * Cell phones provide decent call quality. I really don’t get folks who don’t have a landline, because cell [...]

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