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 lower internet [...]
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 – don't let [...]
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 along with [...]
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 Barack Obama. [...]
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 most recent [...]
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 as bad [...]