A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? continue reading...
Don Dodge might have raised some eyebrows when within his first week of joining Google from MSFT suddenly developed an aversion to MSFT products in favor of Google ones, but in a recent interview, he both gives a lot of praise and dishes out diplomatic criticism of his former employer. This part stands out in general about the evolution of tech companies: continue reading...
The following 8-video Decade Rewind 2000s series is a pretty impressive display of creativity and execution from the WatchMojo.com team, a 2000s decade recap and review where we rewind the events of the past 10 years in the Auto industry, Business & Technology, Entertainment, Fashion, Music, Politics, Science & Space and Video Games. continue reading...
Quintura’s Yakov Sadchikov is a fine example of an entrepreneur and executive who maximizes blogging to the fullest to bring visibility to his company.
As a Russian writer and entrepreneur, he has a front row seat on one of the most dynamic and exciting markets in the world (not talking merely web markets or economic market, we’re talking market for products, but also people and ideas…) continue reading...
I raised a few eyebrows (trust me, I have a few) when Om Malik launched the Earth2Tech blog, though in all fairness, the topic is certainly in vogue.
But today, when I found out that Malik’s latest blog network was launching Ostatic - a blog to cover Open Source projects - it took all of 4 seconds to realize this was actually going to serve a major niche… until I realized, OS is certainly no longer niche. continue reading...
In 2005 Yahoo! released its search API, the developer community went crazy… I assembled a couple of programmers and built a vertical search engine called MetaMojo.com. We subsequently moved away from Yahoo!’s API and built a Nutch-based crawler instead because Yahoo! took one step forward but two step back.
Today Yahoo! Search goes open… This basically allows publishers to tweak Yahoo!’s search, though they cannot tweak results. I think this will be noise today, gone tomorrow. Yahoo! should have really opened up its search platform then, fully. It didn’t. My frustrations working with Yahoo! then were emblematic of everything that is being written about Yahoo! today. continue reading...
Yesterday, BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque set off a storm by suggesting that tech blog networks are peaking. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio in the technology blog network space has gone down considerably. While many of these blogs are hiring from traditional media, established publications are firing back with their own blogs and blog networks. CNET for one has been very aggressive, even appointing blogger Dan Farber to become editor in chief at News.com (of course, Farber is so much more than a mere blogger).
In fact, in the past year, many of these technology blogs have gone from being a one-site, one-man operation to a multi-site property hiring large operational and editorial teams. In a few instances, companies have even raised considerable funding. The quest to build an audience and generate ad revenues has pitted many of these sites in a competitive and cooperative dynamic that might indeed suggest that most of these sites have peaked. continue reading...
Intel’s Andy Grove had a popular saying: Only the Paranoid Survive. It was the name of his book. Another big thinker, Clay Christensen, penned a popular management book called The Innovator’s Dilemma. Keep those two titles in mind as you read the following.
Microsoft’s been known for taking on too many competitors: Apple, Sony, Nintendo, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, Sun, etc. The list goes on and on. Some are competitors in their core Office and Windows business, others in their emerging businesses such as XBOX, MSN Live, Zune etc. But it has to, cause as I’ve outlined previously, at the current rate, Google’s market cap will surpass that of MSFT by 2010.
But in a sign of how quickly things change, Google is leveraging its online dominance and now taking the offensive to: continue reading...
Some time ago, when Facebook’s paper value hovered in the $5-10B value, I wrote that Facebook’s real competition was not MySpace, but Google.
In turn, Google was only half interested in acquiring Facebook, because unlike YouTube’s massive video collection and community, Google was already a social network when you consider that things such as search, email, maps, etc., account for what a social network really is all about. I did mention that Google has not written off acquiring Facebook, but only MSFT really could pull that off from a financial perspective. continue reading...
Can someone explain this to me?
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