Microsoft’s Yahoo takeover, whether successful short or long-term, marks an historic change in Microsoft’s perception of its role at the center of the computing universe. Certainly Google’s rise has focused the Redmond mind on the task it must confront, not just with Google’s advertising dominance but also its dagger to the heart of Microsoft’s crown […]
Archive for February, 2008
The Attention Operating System
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11 February 2008 |
23:13 |
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The 5th Guy
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3 February 2008 |
13:57 |
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Conventional wisdom:
Social advertising doesn’t work because users are there for friends, not buying stuff.
Google reports weak results from MySpace deal, blaming missed numbers on bad estimates of social advertising yield.
Microsoft Yahoo takeover is about advertising.
Problems with that view for me, personally:
I don’t use search. Not externally, that is. I use Gmail search all the time, […]
Conventional wisdom:
Social advertising doesn’t work because users are there for friends, not buying stuff.
Google reports weak results from MySpace deal, blaming missed numbers on bad estimates of social advertising yield.
Microsoft Yahoo takeover is about advertising.
Problems with that view for me, personally:
I don’t use search. Not externally, that is. I use Gmail search all the time, […]
