CurtMonash

JLove, an online dating service, has come up with a new(?) form of SEM. It generates pages for a broad variety of Firstname-Lastname combinations, with text asserting that Firstname-Lastname is a member of their service. The potential to attract c read more »
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Microsoft could borrow the money to buy Yahoo in an all-cash deal, and pay it off in three years.

The deal is VERY likely to happen. read more »
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As per http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/09/scalable-twitter/, Twitter is currently a nice club for a few tens of thousands of tech-savvy folks. At current levels of usage, reliability can surely be fixed. But if Twitter is to go mainstream, read more »
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At least 90% of everything is crud, including social media experiences. Even so, people will always use a variety of social media that are engaging, easily accessible, and good enough at filtering out what they don't want. Particular kinds of soci read more »
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A merged Microsoft/Yahoo could innovate all kinds of search-related UIs, such as structured search and the integration of search and business intelligence. FAST -- being acquired by Microsoft -- foreswore web search when it sold alltheweb.com, but read more »
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Apparently, a tiny fraction of political advertising is online -- $20 million estimate, according to Borell Associates. This is mainly search and contextual, notwithstanding those Obama banners we see on Slashdot and so on. But here's the thing -- read more »
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music.com, eat.com, meat.com, milk.com, car.com

Oh, the opportunities we all missed.

My only one-word domain name is elucidate.com read more »
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According to KPMG and the British Library, a lot of what "everybody knows" about the internet generation is wrong. It's a survey specifically of teenagers, but maybe it's reflective of the views of young folks in general. read more »
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