I’ve got six goodies for you today. Google just announced a new operating system based on their recently released web browser, Chrome. Is it a threat to Windows? They also recently removed a little word that’s been hanging around your Gmail screen since you joined the tens of millions of users of that popular email…
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Bing – You're It!
Well, it’s no secret to those who know me that I am not a fan of most of Microsoft’s products (though some cool things are happening with the XBOX 360 if this is its future). But this week Microsoft launched Bing, a new search engine aimed at finally procuring a serious portion of the search-engine…
Everybody Needs to Cuil Out
Everyone can learn a marketing lesson from the launch of new search engine, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). A victim of its own hype, Cuil has become the target of a sizeable media backlash, supported by the web everyman, thanks to Youtube comments and blogs galore. Expectations were so high that it was no wonder that many…
Ads, AOL, TradeDoubler, and You
On Monday (Jan. 15th, 2007) AOL, a division of Time Warner said it would buy the Swedish online ad broker TradeDoubler for a cool $900 million. And it won’t fly. According to multiple accounts, including the NYTimes, they need 90% shareholder approval and one company, a Swedish pension fund called Alecta, owns 10.1% and they…
