Although there hasn’t been a proven ad business model yet, online video consumption is growing at a furious pace and has great potential for marketers to tap into. YouTube has announced partnerships with both CBS and MGM to post full length TV shows and movies on the site.
Other mainstream media networks have already crossed-over into [...]
YouTube launched its first ever live concert event last week with roughly 700,000 concurrent viewers tuning in to watch according to stats from Akamai. See TechCrunch’s post about Akamai’s usage stats here. The event featured a blend of real Hollywood celebrities like Katy Perry and Will.i.am and cewebrities like Tay “Chocolate Rain” Zonday, LisaNova and [...]
McKinsey, a leading management consulting firm, has put together a series of short interactive exchanges on Eric Schmidt’s view on the future of business at Google and the technology industry as a whole. These clips offer a very insightful take on the inner business workings at Google and how he sees the company evolving over [...]
There’s been a flurry of activity coming out of the mobile industry lately first with the much fan-fared launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G and app store. Both RIM and Google are making headlines this week with two big announcements.
First, Research In Motion (RIM) announced that they’ll be launching a BlackBerry Application Storefront and BlackBerry Application [...]
Google announces Project 10^100. The project is a call to anyone with big ideas that can change the world. Now we all potentially have the opportunity to work with Google!
Submissions will be accepted until October 20th, 2008. Applicants can fill out the submission form and even include a 30 second-spot video clip. Once the submssion [...]
Google hinted early last week about the release of its open source project Google Chrome. Google even created a Google Chrome comic book drawn by Scott McCloud. Last Tuesday, they officially announced the launch of their new browser Google Chrome.
If you haven’t test driven it yet here are some screenshots for your viewing pleasure:
What you [...]
Google’s domination of the search market continued with it topping 70.77% of all searches in the U.S. in July 2008 according to Hitwise. This is a 2% increase over its share of searches over June 2008 and a 10% year over year increase. This growth has been driven in part by its ubiquitous branding making [...]
CUIL (pronounced cool), a new search engine launched earlier today by former Google employees Tom Costello (CEO), Anna Patterson (VP Engineering) and Russell Power. The search engine newcomer claims it has the most comprehensive web index and returns superior results over search marketing leader Google.
There’s been a lot of buzz about this start-up backed by [...]
