Yahoo's problems may be due to bad management in part, but they're also due to the fad nature of online advertising. It's easy to make costly mistakes here. Google and Facebook should beware.
If we're talking about business, I'd say it's the bottom line. That goes for both content and social. On one hand, it can be revenue directly from content or social. On the other hand, it can be revenue for other companies, from which they earn some part. F & G already do the latter. I wonder if they can make money out of the former.
I agree, Kim, with one qualification, which is that they'd better figure out what comes after social before they mess up search. It's already too late for them to figure out social.
I'm struck by your thought that it only takes a few mistake to send enterprises like Google and Facebook down the wrong track. I do believe, however - and I've written recently - that Google had better stop messing around with search until it figures social out. If it becomes a second rank search engine, as well as a second rank social platform, it's in serious trouble.
I do, Mary. I think an incumbent with cash reserves and a brand can nearly always reverse a decline, even a deeper and later one than this. BUT, and that's the big qualification, they have to harness a radical shift to make that happen, not try to manage their way out with incremental steps. That's always a challenge for a new CEO.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!
YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.
That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
EU operators are considering joining up to create a pan-European network to reduce competitive overbuild and cost. This might lower costs and focus operators on higher-level, more interesting services.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
Twitter's changes are clearly aimed at being more Facebook-like, and this is because both companies are vying to serve the mobile social network market. But can that market work for anybody, given how difficult it is to push ads to social-update readers?
Google's Knowledge Graph concept of returning the "right answer" might change the Internet if it becomes a common practice, but it could also contaminate the answers with commericalism or hurt Google's own business. Can they navigate these choices?
Google is reportedly working on a pair of Android glasses that will use a low-resolution built-in camera to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings, and friends who might be nearby. Interested?
As ICANN's former board chairman grabs a plum job with a domain seller, we're left to wonder just how many new registrations are "defensive," claimed by companies worried about protecting their brands.
In the past, the most powerful brands became the products that they represented, whether it was Kleenex for tissues or Coke for colas. Super brands are no different on Internet. The techniques of branding might change, but the challenges to achieving super-brand status remain the same.
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