Wow, it never ends. Smart people at “old” companies continue to think that they are entitled to earn the same level of profits simply by doing the same old thing in a new channel. Case in point? Rafat Ali of…

I’ve been meaning to write this for about six months now, but a picture over on Marc’s blog today finally motivated me: While I agree with much of what Marc wrote in his post, that’s not really the point of…

Last Fall, I met and became fast friends with a couple of guys building some “next-gen” (my words) stuff in the social media space. They’re still at it, and still in stealth mode, so no names today. Anyway… they were…

Netflix has long advocated that one of their key differentiators is their proprietary Cinematch movie recommendation engine, fueld by dozens of ratings (or in my case, 725+ ratings) by millions of subscribers. Today, Yahoo! released a movie recommendation service on…

Andy Beal has, at least in my aggregator, a scoop on talk of how Microsoft will rank bids in their pending search engine marketing marketplace. Paraphrasing Matt Lydon, Senior Sales Director of Search, MSN in a MarkterToday article: “Question: What…

“Comprehensive Local Search” may be a stretch (as I haven’t actually played with the product yet)… but from the snipets Battelle just published over on Searchblog, it sounds like A9 Yellow Pages (90 degree photos [45 degree in the case…

Well how cool is (answer: very)! KRON4, a local Bay Area TV station, is holding a Blogger Meet-up at their offices in San Francisco. They’ve found 278 local bloggers to invite directly… but the event is open to all. I’ll…

Amazon.com is known to have a great internal multi-variate test environment, allowing it to selectively roll-out and measure the effect of new features and designs. Tonight, I got some quality time with their latest home page redesign (that, or it’s…

Well, I specifically excluded Google’s MT work from my coverage of their well orchestrated PR event yesterday, as I wanted to give it special treatment. (Can you tell I’m enjoying my new found bandwidth?!) I wanted to tie in my…

Bringing a couple of threads together here… We all know about Microsoft’s mainstream blogging effort, MSN Spaces. Late last night, The Blog Herald pointed to a piece by Netcraft about a new server-side blogging solution that Microsoft is distributing: “Microsoft…