Gary Price give us a sneak preview on MSN search front end, and some of the new features. Otherwise, their new search engine can be tested at techpreview.search.msn.com, but I have not been impressed.
Archive for October, 2004
Here we go: colour screen, sync. picture library, album art, TV cable for viewing, 40/60Gb … Apple.
Let’s have the UN monitor the US election !
Published October 26th, 2004 in Today's theme. 0 CommentsI have just read the post of Pierre Omidyar on his concerns about the fairness of the Ohio Republicans’ initiative to challenge the qualifications of voters at the polls on Election Day. It seems amazing that such things is legal in the US. Add this to the issues of 2000 elections in Florida, and having […]
Very good post from Tom Foremski on Silicon Valley Watcher. Google is not about search, it is about a "efficient advertising delivery network".
Wireless is one of the hottest market when it comes to technology mergers and acquisitions, according to Rutberg & Co. And it is likely to remain that way for sometime, they predict.
"During the one month period from September 1 through September 30, there were also 37 M&A transactions announced during the period, including Alcatel’s $250 […]
Top-Earning Fictional Characters
Published October 26th, 2004 in Today's theme and Business. 0 CommentsOn Forbes: "According to our calculations, the top-ten fictional characters grossed more than $25 billion in 2003." Mickey, Winnie, Nemo and the like are big money.
Via Moconews. In UK, 3G mobile operator 3 is running its first ever mobile video ad campaign, for the Apple iPod…The 14-second iPod ad, featuring the silhouetted dancers from the brand’s central campaign, appears before and after the Pete Tong show on the 3 music channel. The future of 3G advertising will enable consumers both […]
430,000 people in the World live on their Ebay revenues
Published October 25th, 2004 in Business and Internet. 0 CommentsArticle on Neteconomie (in French), based on an interview with Bill Cobb, SVP at eBay.
via Loic le Meur
"The Wall Street Journal Online, a bastion of subscription-only news on the Web, has begun giving away some content. In recent months, the business news outfit has been sending nightly e-mail to bloggers, or online diarists, to offer up several daily stories free so that they can point to or link to them from their […]
EMI Music UK has agreed a deal with The Carphone Warehouse which will make Robbie Williams the first artist ever to release an entire album plus video content on a Multimedia Memory Card (MMC) - a tiny stamp size gizmo that slots straight into a mobile phone to deliver music on the move. Some details […]
"The ideal for many content people would be that they just put their content on the Internet and then they have a direct relationship with the viewer," Gates said. "That model for low-volume content is the future." On Reuter.
John Connors, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said in the conference call. “We’re going to have a heck of a great race in search between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. It’s going to be really fun to follow.”
On cnet.
I was looking for a software to do screen capture - or just from a selectable zone -, which would for XP, free, with a good interface. Found it. HandySnap and recommending it.
The Internet And the Death Of 80/20
Published October 24th, 2004 in Business and Internet. 0 CommentsMust read post on how the internet has killed the 80/20 rule of thumb. “Scarcity of attention and space were the cause of the 80/20 rule; the Internet is changing that” Apparently there’s at least as much money in unpopular, non-bestselling works then there is in blockbusters, and that’s in addressing the tail of the […]
Interesting to read the Top 25 profiles on Inc. / Yahoo.
