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John Battelle's Searchblog
John Battelle's Searchblog (battellemedia.com) has great Web 2.0 news, photos, videos and more
Monday, Oct 5
Search Does That. Social Does This. Give Me A Reese's Cup Please
A hundred billion plus dollar business ensued: we all now use Google to find that which we want to find on the web. In particular, Google is great at delivering authority on the web for those things that had already been published and ranked: In a way, Google has become the reference libraria...
Monday, Sep 28
Web 2: Help Me Interview Jeff Immelt
While some of America’s competitors were throttling up on manufacturing and R&D, we de-emphasized technology. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services. While our financial services business has performed well, I can’t tell you that we were enti...
Wednesday, Sep 23
Help Me Interview Evan Williams, CEO Twitter
Thanks to those of you who chimed in, via email, Twitter, Facebook, and comments, on our first interview at Web 2 next month with Brian Roberts. Next up on day one is Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter. I've had the pleasure before (at FM's CM Summit), and posted...
Monday, Sep 21
Help Me Interview Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast
Comcast Interactive is an interesting play as well - a distinct entity with a number of newly purchased assets (Fandango, Plaxo, Daily Candy, etc) that may or may not find itself competing directly with Yahoo, MSN, and AOL someday, not to mention Google. It's clear to me that one of the next...
Wednesday, Sep 16
On Complements and Showdowns and TweetSense
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose Twitter’s eventual dominant business model is putting ads by search results. Who gets the revenue when a user is searching on a 3rd party Twitter client? Even if Twitter gets a portion of revenue from ads on 3rd party apps, there will always be an incen...
Friday, Sep 11
Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index
Now, Web 2 is known for in depth interviews with titans of business like GE CEO Jeff Immelt, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, or former HP CEO and pending Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina - all of them are coming this year. And it's known for having the stalwarts of the Internet industry represe...
Sunday, May 3
As It Inflects, Twitter Must Add Value to New Users, Faster
And leaving they are, if this report from Nielsen is to be believed. Widely picked up last week in the Twitterverse, the report does the math and finds that 60 percent of those who try Twitter abandon the service within a month. That means no matter how steep the inflection, Twitter will soon b...
Wednesday, Mar 18
Another Reason to be Skeptical of "Analysts"
1. Tweetsense - AdWords and AdSense like platform for Twitter. This has major scale potential. Whoever buys Twitter, they wrote, “will likely have to operate it at a loss in perpetuity, or until the next cool Web 2.0 social networking concept comes along and Twitter tweets no more.”
Thursday, Mar 8
Web 2 Expo: Special Deal for SearchBlog Readers
I've told you before about the Web 2 Expo, it's the cousin of our original Web 2 conference (now called the Summit). I'm pleased to report that more folks have registered for the Expo than we originally predicted, and not only that, the lineup of keynote speakers is really...
Wednesday, Jan 17
The Blog Merchandising Problem, or, Blogs, V 2.0 (2.1? 3.0?)
Now imagine instead, that when that person comes from search, they are greeted with a box that pops up and is informed by the search referral information that we all carry with us as we click away from Google or other search engines. That box surfaces a smart search based on the referral - perh...
Wednesday, Jan 10
Got a Startup? Launch It at The Web 2 Expo This April
Most of you know that I am a partner and Program Chair of the Web 2 Summit. That event has been oversold for three years now, and my partners O'Reilly and CMP have launched a second event targeted at a broader (and much larger) audience. As part of that...
Monday, Nov 13
Search Thoughts from O'Reilly
During the two-year period from one edition of Google TMM to the next, Google began adding features and services at such an increasingly quick clip that while the second edition was at the printer, we missed out on eight new tools. That was in a 10-day period. (Some of those new tools are searc...
Wednesday, Oct 25
Searchmob Roundup
Digg in Acquisition Talks With Several Giants Yahoo Updates Yahoo Bookmarks With New Features Firefox 2.0 Debuts Google's Confidential Ethnographic Research on YouTube InkyAnswers: A New Natural Language Search Engine (Beta)...
Sunday, Oct 15
Web 2: What Would You Ask The Majors?
Eric Schmidt - CEO Google Jack Ma - CEO Alibaba (including Yahoo China) Ray Ozzie - Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Roger McNamee and Ram Shriram- Venture investors (Elevation Partners and Board member, Google) David Filo - Founder, Yahoo
Wednesday, Aug 30
The Web 2.0 Expo
I'm really looking forward to this event, I think it'll be where the rubber meets the road. (Disclosure-As Program Chair for Web 2.0, I'm a partner in the Web 2.0 conference business with O'Reilly and CMP, though I am not directly involved in the Expo business itself.)
