May 3, 2006
Yahoo capitalizes on misspellings of popular brand names!
Yahoo did not immediately return calls seeking comment. If the
allegations in the suit are true, Yahoo would hardly be alone
in getting its hands dirty by associating with the typosquatting
industry. On Sunday, The Washington Post ran a story I co-wrote
with Leslie Walker on Google's role in fueling a speculative frenzy
in parked domain names, including many that appear to do nothing
but capitalize on misspellings of popular brand names.
May 2, 2006
Place-shifting behavior using RSS feeds
Vintacom hosts the service and shares revenue with the publisher.
Michael Tchong, principal of trend consultancy Ubercool, said that
place-shifting behavior, including RSS feeds, podcasts and wild
publishing, will make it increasingly harder to track who is
consuming content. According to Tchong, "This whole control-freakism
trend is turning the American consumer into a picky and hard-to-reach
target, and this will offer obstacles for marketers." Social media
-- blogging, personal publishing, photo and video sharing services
-- is one such obstacle. Marketers are mystified about how to reach
consumers as they stop consuming content and start producing it.
May 2, 2006
Amazon is shifting away from Google
But when Google Base book search enables publishers to circumvent
Amazon and sell directly to Google searchers you'll see Amazon
finding new search partners in a hot damn minute. GData and Base
indicate that Google's uber-portal direction is set. Amazon's shift
from Google indicates what will be the first of many high profile
shifts away from Google that we'll see in the coming months.
May 1st, 2006
Last year, Google gave a lift to the Mozilla Firefox browser
Microsoft unveiled a test version of Internet Explorer 7 for free
downloads last week. The company still has about 85 percent of the
browser market, but that is down from 88 percent a year earlier.
Google gave a lift to No. 2 browser Firefox recently, giving a link
on its main search page to a page where users can download the upstart
offering. The Google homepage describes Firefox as having "tabbed
browsing, safer surfing." And the Firefox version that Google links
to has a Google toolbar.
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