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Now that's what I call a bear market. Analyst Trip Chowdhry claims Google will shrink in annual revenues and profits, slash 10-15% of its workforce, and in the comments on Eric's post (which I link to above), one guy says Google is cutting its holiday Christmas party in the...
So finally we hear that we've been in a recession for an entire year. As I recall, this entire past year, we've been told we might be in one, but now, all of a sudden, we've already been in one for the past four quarters. Last night I read...
Sorry, but I say this every year: The top searches from the engines each year are so damn BORING! Ask Yahoo How I wish these lists told us something we didn't already know! Update: AOL (thanks Quayle)...
And it's getting down to it....
Just a placeholder for a piece I'm trying to bang out tonight, ideally. I've been ranting about it to various folks all weekend long, has to do with the inflection point of being able to ask this question: What are people saying about (my query) right now? Yep, it...
I do this too much - post something short, as a note to myself and all of you that there is way more to say, then end with "I'll say more in the next post." Then I get busy and forget about that "next post" thing, and start posting...
That's the last line of a Times piece over the weekend on the increasing size of our digital footprints. Hmmm. But it is the basis of the American constitution. Read the Times piece, which, if you've read The Search and watched the "Web Meets World" meme (that was the...
Another Yahoo search rumor, as Om puts it - this one following the general outline of my suggestion way back when that search be spun off and run as an independent company with backing from Yahoo and Microsoft. This comes from the Times of London, it seems that in...
Facebook had a "malfunction" today that reset all my email notifications. All of a sudden, I am getting Facebook notifications in my email inbox about all manner of things. A conspiracist will claim this was on purpose. I'll explain why in the next post....
Yahoo has rolled out vertical search lenses. TechCrunch is one of the first sites to employ it, SEL has coverage here....
I reported skeptically on this issue earlier, but let's call a spade a spade. Google used its contractor workforce to quickly scale without having to spend on permanent employees, and now, it's using that same workforce to cut back costs. I've heard from a fair number of "laid off"...
My latest rant, up on the Amex Open Forum Blog. From it: The debate is as old as the web itself – what is the role of marketing in a medium that is so clearly driven by interaction and communication? I have a lot of thoughts about this topic,...
Those who know me know I tend to prepare for my discussions with leaders onstage at Web 2. You may recall during my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, I asked whether Facebook was going to buy Twitter. A round of blogospherian eye rolling ensued. "It's the sort of "speculative fun"...
I am not so sure about articles like this one, which claim Google is quietly laying off 10,000 workers (all contract but still full time), but has not a single direct source. If this is true, why, ping me here or in email. If 10K of you are "afffected"...
