links for 2007-04-21
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Saturday, April 21st at 1:18 pm
Google announces: “we’re excited about acquiring Marratech’s video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participation for Googlers in videoconference meetings wherever there’s an Internet connection.”
It’s no secret that many in the newspaper business have struggled with figuring out how to adapt their business models into the digital age.
“David Ogilvy was famous for creating his agency’s slogan: “we sell or else.” I went on to say that, in this customer-centric era, we here at Wunderman have moved further ahead by recognizing and proving that “we create relationships or else.”
Former film critic Bob Ross, laid off after 22 years at the Tampa Tribune, has joined a Tampa Blogging website. Another victim of a dying industry that fails to recognize that if you don’t have content, you won’t have customers.
When Google won the bidding for DoubleClick, (Yahoo! CEO) Terry Semel was quoted as saying “this validates our strategy and proves display advertising is important.” While his public face was diplomatic, I wonder what he was saying off camera.
Digg launches their API but I think they forgot a key call: and it includes Search by Domain. Bloggers would chomp at the bit to list all their stories that have been Dugg in their sidebar.
