I believe social networking will end up disrupting search and application development. *********** Cough... Between the Lines:. News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year...

Terrorists Win: Americans Living In Perpetual Fear Poll numbers confirm majority of Americans feel less safe than before 9/11 as more globalist figureheads View Full Article

Silly, but until publishers proactively embrace and develop open revenue models, this is what we'll have. ************ It’s no secret that video sites like YouTube benefited from added traffic generated by hosting copyrighted content. But as these sites get acquired, integrate...

The game is, of course, totally rigged, as the ruling class is going to put Hillary in, upon which the United States as a socialist regime will truly emerge (although expect the sheeple to go on denying and doublethinking). Ron Paul remains the only answer. ************* President George...

As Lessig has told us, it's the code that's the law now. **************** http://www.techmeme.com/070808/i66.jpg Google Filters Torrents From Search Results — So, apparently one day Google decided that it is illegal in nearly every country of the world to host a .torrent file...

While part of the future of media is that advertising and media no longer have any real distinction, I wonder if a video site that only shows advertisements is the answer. I think niche strategies of a more topical orientation are a better bet. ************************ NBC Universal...

Umair raises some good points here, although I don't think search strategies necessarily conflict with branding strategies; in my opinion the best search marketers are branding-oriented. ******** Marketers are at the cusp of strategic reinvention. That means they can either rise to the...

Online video ad network LiveRail launched a public beta just about a month ago, and yesterday I caught up with CEO Mark Trefgarne to get an update on how things are progressing at the London-based start up. ... View Full Article

More people suing YouTube. Unfortunate, in my opinion. ************** The National Music Publisher's Association recently joined the YouTube class action copyright infringement suit, along with the likes of Viacom and those who started the Zidane-style retaliatory headbutting in the...

This blog post talks about various types of search queries that are more difficult to monetize, as well as the edge that niche semantic search engines have. I think search has passed the "point of no return"; no one playing the search game is going to beat Google, but rather someone playing the...

The flurry of acquisitions in the online advertising industry suggests that the industry is ripe for a new market disruption; all the old value has been consolidated, and the next step is something disruptive that shines light on hidden value. ********** Apollo Group, provider of both...

Really nice commentary from Stowe Boyd, which I agree with 100%. The social media game is a niche game, and everyone is better off (Google included) if Google focuses on infrastructure stuff. *********** Google announces a new model of participation in the news -- those mentioned in...

Toll Brothers, the largest US luxury homebuilder, warned that home sales might fall even further in the latest sign that the worst housing slump in 16 years has not yet reached its lowest point. Read Full Article

Here's what I found to be the most important excerpt of the article: "Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported that the release of the virus came after an 'international drill' last month that was held at Pirbright Laboratory, in...

BubbleGeneration on the New York Times' decision to go ad-supported instead of subscriber with its Times Select product. ******************** The NYT axes TimesSelect - finally. We've been arguing for a loooon time - even before it was launched - that TimesSelect was a strategic error of...