 | |  Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:40 AM
On January 18, 2008, Google informed me that they will no longer be hosting the WebGuild events. A Google representative said the decision was based on the fact that the name of our January 2008 event called "The Future of Web Applications" and the name of our web 2.0 conference called "Web 2.0 Conference & Expo" were not changed as requested by O'Reilly. Read more
Posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008 6:33 PM
Inside Facebook has pulled together an excellent post noting the claimed CPMs by several Facebook developers for their Facebook Applications. Here are the numbers:
$0.60 CPM with Social Media
$1.50 CPM with VideoEgg
$0.27 CPM with Cubics, down from $0.43 earlier this month
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Posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:46 PM
The "deadline" imposed by Microsoft on Yahoo expired yesterday, which makes it likely that Microsoft is either preparing to drop their bid or - and this appears a more likely scenario - preparing for a hostile takeover where they'll try to get a new slate of directors approved for Yahoo who would view the takeover favorably, leading to a probable merge this summer. Read more
Posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:24 AM
Online Seminars, webcasts, and podcasts have really exploded on the tech scene over the last year or so, but I remain skeptical about the potential of these to change things very much. An "old style" online information gathering approach still works very well. Generally it takes only a few online minutes to search, find, and quickly scan a topic you need to understand better or learn about for the first time. Read more
Posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:17 PM
Over at CNET Steve Tobak is wondering how much of a role luck plays in business success. Tobak nots some big lucky breaks in business such as Bill Gates' landing the IBM OS contract that launched Microsoft after being second choice for the job, but he winds up concluding: Read more
Posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:23 AM
Today CNET has a fun piece on the evolution of the internet where - partly I think just for effect - they use the increasingly incomprehensible numbering system for "Web 1.0, 2.0, etc" that is now thrown around without much regard to consistency or even comprehensibity. Read more
Posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:17 AM
The intersection of politics, journalism, and social media became even more striking over the past few days as student journalist James Karl Buck was arrested along with Mohammed Maree, an Egyptian friend who was helping him report on political unrest in Egypt. Read more
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Online Registration for Members: $30.00 and Non-Members: $60.00 | | | Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 5:54 PM
The scourge of spam emailings gets older each day, older than many of the people now shaping the technology that has so far failed - in a fairly spectacular and dramatic fashion - to free most users from the overwhelming nightmare of too much email. Read more
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:13 PM
One of the most unassuming but influential players in Silicon Valley is Matt Mullenweg, the key developer of Wordpress blogging software and owner his associated anti-spam company Automattic. Read more
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:16 AM
If you are in the market for a new ultra mobile PC or "ultraportable" Liliputing has a great list of what is available right now and what UMPCs are coming soon: liliputing.com. I was more bullish on my ASUS eee PC until the Linux OS failed to boot at the end of my China trip and it appears I'll lose some pictures I had backed up there, but until the crash I found that popular unit to be a very convenient travel computer with a small keyboard and screen as the main challenges to normal computer comforts. Read more
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:56 PM
Larry Dignan and Dan Farber at CNET have the early scoop on Yahoo's freshly unveiled Yahoo! Open Strategy somewhat cryptically labelled .... "Y!OS" Ari Balogh, Yahoo CTO said at the San Francisco Web 2.0 Conference today: "We are taking open to a whole other place,"... "We are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open up the assets of Yahoo in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers." Read more
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:41 PM
Microsoft (MSFT) reported record earnings for the quarter but recent stock price increases appear to have anticipated a stronger report as the stock has fallen about 1.38 per share in after hours trading as of 4:34 pm EST. Read more
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:59 AM
Here is a recent Social Media report from Universal McCann. The report has data points on global usage of social networking sites, blogging, content sharing and creation. The report is not available for distribution but McCann was kind enough to provide a download link to the report. Read more 
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:57 AM
Craigslist has responded to eBay's lawsuit filed against Craigslist and its board of directors.
We are surprised and disappointed by eBay's unfounded allegations, which came to us out of the blue, without any attempt to engage in a dialogue with us.
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