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Posted 4 days ago
Clay Felker, a legend in magazines and journalism, died today. I had to honor to work with Clay Felker for a few years, making magazines and websites as part of my time at the UC Berkeley Graduate Sch
Tags: internet
Posted 5 days ago
This is a Big Deal. Now, I want to know: how will Flash files be ranked? Any ideas? Adobe is a major competitor to Microsoft in this front. How will Microsoft make Silverlight searchable? And will Goo
Posted 5 days ago
Google rebranded its Performics affiliate network, which it acquired as part of Doubleclick, as Google Affiliate Network, apparently sometime over the past few days.I say apparently because I can'
Posted 5 days ago
Kevin Kelly makes the point, riffing on Chris's ideas about the end of theory.
Posted 6 days ago
From Dare's blog, a posit that folks are leaving Google for Microsoft, driven by his anecdotal observations and blog post from a guy named Sergey Solyanik:So why did I leave?There are many things abou
Posted 6 days ago
If you have the time, and the will, read this from Adam at Fortune. It's one Yahoo employee's rant about the ongoing turmoil...and it's really, really dark humor. Really, really dark. As someone who h
Posted 6 days ago
Google knows it has distribution. Distribution is the key to the old school method of media success. Think cable: We have a monopoly on getting programming into homes, so you have to go through us! Th
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