Fast Company (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Google's got two new announcements: It's pairing up with Twitter for Friend Connect login purposes, and it's done the unthinkable and re-designed its home page. Both moves are surprising...do they mean the curly-haired youth of search is growing up? Google's clinch with Twitter is ostensibly to bring "Twitter and Friend Connect even closer together" from Google's point of view. The search...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
John Battelle / John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Embraces Twitter, Some More. In a Non Facebook Kinda Way. — From the Google Social Web Blog (I have to admit it’s hard for me to see those four words together without busting out a silly grin): Today, we’re bringing Twitter and Friend Connect even closer together.
Pause (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Funny how some P&M (pissing and moaning) gets you traffic. Soon after writing about my United Airlines encounter, when I was told by a UA employee the criteria for getting Global Services status on UA were unknown to him, I've received a whole lotta support from readers, helping me to find out. What surprised me were emails from frequent fliers, even a reporter covering the airline beat, asking...
Federated Media Publishing Inc. (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
“Twitter is a new way to do customer relationship management,” says media veteran John Battelle, founder of The Industry Standard and more recently founder and CEO of Federated Media Publishing. Battelle’s new venture is a digital media and marketing company that uses Twitter as fuel for targeted services such as ExecTweets and BingTweets. “People use
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
• As December lubes itself up in the calendar's birth canal, the world and its dog is gearing up for Christmas: not least online retailers, who are looking forward to record sales despite the recession. November 30th is what they call (rather anachronistically) "Cyber Monday" in the United States, but the positive signs are already around - last Friday was a record-breaker for PayPal...
News to Cromley (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. He spoke briefly with John Battelle. Below find the Q&A (paraphrased): JB: So you got to chat with Tim Armstrong. Do you miss him? SB: Oh yeah it’s great to see him here. We miss him a lot. But it’s great for AOL to have a leader like him. JB: So yesterday the Twitter deal, how did...
Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Originally published in MediaPost's Search Insider , October 29, 2009. A few years ago, I interviewed usability expert Jakob Nielsen about where search might go in the future. He shared an interesting insight: " I think there is a tendency now for a lot of not very useful results to be dredged up that happen to be very popular, like Wikipedia and various blogs. They're not going to be very useful...
Press 2.0 - Communications in a digital world (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Now we know newspapers are in trouble. Ad revenues are declining, readership is dwindling and they are gradually being left behind as a trust source of unbiased reporting (not to mention the debts they have from bad investment decisions made less than a decade back, when they didn't read the writing on their ' Facebook ' walls*). So forget them making serious money quickly again, in fact... forget...
Traffick (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This being a week of overwork for many of us, this "kick the week off" post for Monday didn't happen until Tuesday. And now, there is no way (at least not yet) that I feel like posting about something serious (such as a review of Avinash Kaushik's new book, which definitely deserves a post). To start the week off with a chuckle (or to start what's left of it off) might make more sense. I...
PR 2.0 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I recently attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco hosted by Tim O’Reilly, John Battelle, and TechWeb. One of the highlights of the conference was a discussion between Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and FM Media’s John Battelle. It was a revealing and enlightening examination of the rise, state, and future of a social network that [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Eric Etheridge NYT On Sunday, the day before the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall, Rupert Murdoch appeared in an interview on Sky News in Australia, and promised to erect pay walls around all his company’s Web sites and then block Google from searching and linking to them. This is not the first shot across the Internet’s bow that Murdoch has fired, and a few old hands are...
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Useful review of the latest book about Google In just the past four years, Google ( GOOG ) has been profiled in no fewer than six books, from John Battelle's seminal 2005 The Search to Jeff Jarvis' What Would Google Do? earlier this year to former BusinessWeek correspondent Richard L. Brandt's Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain in late September. Thanks to Ken Auletta's high profile as media columnist...
The Great Seduction (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Googled By KEN AULETTA Reviewed by Andrew Keen Do we really need another book about Google? First there was John Battelle’s intelligent The Search, then the entertaining if hagiographical The Google Story by David Vise and Mark Malseed, then New...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Carly Fiorina, former chief executive at Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, is expected to announce this morning her candidacy for the U.S. Senate in California. She’ll be gunning for the Republican nomination against Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, and if successful would go up against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer as she seeks a fourth Senate term. She goes into detail about her reasons for...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Expect to hear more about this tomorrow morning when Time Warner reports earnings: Stephanie Clifford at the NYT : Layoffs have begun at Time Inc. Approximately 15 to 20 sales and marketing employees were dismissed from Time Inc.’s news group tonight, largely from Sports Illustrated, according to a Time Inc. executive who asked not to be named as the company had not given authorization to discuss...
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