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...
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...
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...
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...
If you’re available and in the area, be sure to check out Sigma Group’s Fuel for Thought event this Thursday, November 5 at the The Hilton in Parsippany, NJ. It sounds like a great event wioth some very timely, thought-proviking content. And, guess who else is there? Our own John Battelle is keynoting and Pete Spande
So here is the list, which is not ranked 1-100 but simply listed in alphabetical order. If there are others you think should be added to the list, make a note in the comments. Chris Anderson ( @chr1sa ) Editor in Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail Michael Arrington ( @techcrunch ) Founder of TechCrunch John Battelle ( @johnbattelle ) Author and pundit on Google and Internet search Veronica...
Interesting comments on facebook & twitter… Introduction (via Fora.Tv) Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 summit to talk with John Battelle about the future of the company. They discuss Google’s current projects like Android and Chrome, as well as the competition they face from sites like Facebook and Bing. Background (Via Fora.TV) Sergey [...]...
Ceo of Comcast explores the new possibilities opening up due to ever faster internet connections… Introduction (Via Fora.Tv) Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, talks with John Battelle about TV, internet, and the future of communication. They explore the new possibilities that are opening up as internet connections grow ever faster, as well as [...]
AOL CEO Tim Armstong, interviewed by John Battelle at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, gave a thumbs up to the future of the Yellow Pages – at least, the Internet Yellow Pages. Noting that the Internet YP business is largely synonymous with small business marketing, Armstrong said that IYP “looks like early search. People haven’t [...]
Below is a video of Sergei Brin (co founder of Google) and John Battelle (Federated Media) at the Web 2.0 Subbmit in which they discuss search, social, mobile and more. A must view for anyone in the search industry.
Speakers at last week’s Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco mused about the future of journalism with moderator John Battelle. “We’re living in an era of great change all over the place,” noted New York Times Digital Head Martin Niesenholtz. The Internet has “given to us a huge global platform to innovate. It is our [...]
One of John Battelle’s best interviews, among those that I saw, from the Web 2.0 event is his conversation with Sergey Brin. There are no revelations but it’s interesting and worth checking out: Barry at SEL pulled out some quotes from the discussion.
Google UK's YouTube channel posted a video that highlights some of the most interesting events from Google's history. "From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome." If you look closely, you'll spot at least one error in the video. Can you find it? For those who want to learn...
I was sorry to have missed the Web 2.0 Summit this year. Over the weekend I watched a couple of the session videos. The panel discussion titled Whither Journalism, led by John Battelle with Robert Thomson of WSJ, Eric Hippeau...