Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 9th March
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: Three Peer-Reviewed Takes On Armstrong and AOL – John Battelle’s Searchblog – No one doubted AOL needed new leadership, here's some anonymous opinion on whether Tim Armstrong is the right man, and whether AOL can be saved at all. New projections show [...]
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 2nd March
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: Google needs to grow up and pay a dividend – Telegraph – Apparently Google has $16bn of cash in the bank. Time to give some of that to its shareholders? Aaron Greenspan: Why I Sued Google (and Won) – Adsense publishers – [...]
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 23rd February
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: Google Is Commercializing Google News. Sh*tstorm to Follow? – John Battelle’s Searchblog – Google is now showing ads on Google News. Expect trouble from the newspaper industry. Google Turns Off Radio Ads – Another of Google's alternative revenue streams bites the dust [...]
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 16th February
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: Yahoo attracts mixed response over Rich Ads in Search model – NMA – Brief quote from me on Yahoo's new rich search ads. Hitwise Intelligence: “Money Saving Expert” Martin Lewis the most searched-for personality in the UK – Unbelieveable, Martin Lewis beats [...]
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 9th February
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: News | Google closes radio advertising arm – NMA – First Print, now Radio. Google's ambitions in the offline world continue to fall away. Interview with web entrepreneur Shakil Khan – An insightful and funny interview with the one and only Shak.
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 2nd February
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: Bobbie Johnson: Why I’m finished with ‘social media’ | Technology | guardian.co.uk – A plea for people to talk less about social media and just get on with it. Chris Anderson re-evaluates the economics of ‘free’ | Econsultancy – Mr Long Tail's [...]
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 26th January
These are my links for January 28th through January 30th:
- Yahoo hemorrhaging search ad market share in the UK | Econsultancy – Econsultancy pick up on the Q4 report, including a quote from me. I don't remember speaking to Econsultancy about it, but fortunately I do agree with what I said.
- Google Content Network takes money from rivals as traffic grows by 300% – NMA – New Media Age covers Efficient Frontier's Q4 report for UK search spend. For me the most interesting part is the stellar growth of Google's Content Network.
- Updated: A Year Later, AOL Is Contemplating A Bebo Sale – The recession is taking the gloss off a lot of social media properties. Bebo is beginning to look to AOL how Robbie Keane looks to Rafael Benitez.
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 19th January
These are my links for January 19th through January 23rd:
- Google AdWords used to distribute malware | Econsultancy – However much the Internet is part of everybody's lives, a large part of it is still the Wild West. Hopefully Google can stop this criminal nonsense before consumers get scared.
- Is One-Stop Media Buying a Failed Model? – Search Engine Watch (SEW) – Another view on why Google Print Ads has been canned. Perhaps a good example of why a good product isn't necessarily enough to be successful.
- Google shutters Print Ads: are its ad domination dreams fading? | Econsultancy – After years of trying, Google still doesn't have a decent revenue stream other than Adwords. Looks like it's given up on print and it makes you wonder which initiative will get the axe next.
- The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method: Choosing a good chart – Paid search throws out so much data, it's often hard to know where to start when creating a chart. This cut out and keep decision tree is a great little helper.
Weekend Reading: Links from w/c 12th January
Here’s some weekend reading from links that I’ve collected in the last week: Recession collides with "Amazon Tax" | Econsultancy – Amazon screwed by its own affiliates on state sales tax. Is a little context needed on flight search plummet stories? – The Travolution blog takes a look at whether Hitwise's flight search numbers were [...]