Google Values MySpace Deal At $75 Million/Year Or Less
Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Mike Georgeson.
Interesting article at TechCrunch where they say that Google thinks that the next deal with Myspace is worth,at the most, $50 million – $75 million per year, significantly less than the $300 million/year they’re paying now.
This is over a year away but I feel that this could the beginning of the end for Myspace. They [...]
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Half Of YouTube Videos Get Fewer Than 500 Views
Posted on 21. May, 2009 by Mike Georgeson.
YouTube’s most-watched-video lists are full of viral hits and popular music videos. But the majority of videos uploaded to Google’s video site are hardly watched by anyone.
Some 53% of YouTube’s videos have fewer than 500 views, says TubeMogul. About 30% have less than 100 views. Meanwhile, just 0.33% have more than 1 million views.
That’s not [...]
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A little bit of inspiration
Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Mike Georgeson.
I know the following is quite American but Jonathan Kay from Grasshopper sent me a great video on entrepreneurship. First I love the inspirational message. Secondly, I like the use of a viral video to cleverly promote his virtual PBX numbers for entrepreneurs. Take a look and hopefully it will brighten up your day.
What I [...]
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Banner ads do more than just look pretty
Posted on 18. May, 2009 by Mike Georgeson.
Online display ads have gotten a bad rap lately. It’s a format, according to many sources, with declining investment and waning effectiveness.
But a study from iProspect may have discovered an unexpected benefit of online display ads.
When Internet users were surveyed to find out what actions they took when viewing a display ad on an [...]
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Gmail will help you move from Hotmail, MSN and AOL
Posted on 14. May, 2009 by Mike Georgeson.
A few of my friends are still stuck at Hotmail. I know because at least one a month one of them unknowingly spams his or her AddressBook when their accounts get hacked. I don’t even warn them anymore because I find the whole issue just too embarrassing.
Sometimes I ask them why they don’t move. The usual [...]
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Have you ever failed?
Posted on 17. Mar, 2009 by Mike Georgeson.
As I was going through my morning information routine, I noticed a number of articles that I’d put in the “how to not fail” bucket. I read a few of these and noticed a consistent tone of “failure is bad – here’s how to avoid it.”
Throughout my life and career I’ve failed at many things, [...]