Opinionated

Over at the edgeio blog I have posted the first insight into where we are going with edgeio search. It has been about 9 months since we launched edgeio.
We now have a dedicated search team and this is their first push. It is not yet perfect but it is a vast improvement on what was [...]

A spat has blown up over the weekend regarding Oodle and Vast.com “scraping” content from 3rd party sites and re-purposing it inside their environments. This essay is my reaction to the spat. As a founder of edgeio I clearly have an interest in the answer to the question. edgeio does not scrape or crawl. All [...]

Google had a great quarter (earnings up 82% year over year and revenues up more than 22% quarter over quarter).
But they missed Wall Street expectations by more than 15%.
The stock took a 15% hit in the aftermarket. It is now down almost $100 from its previous high.
My personal opinion - huge buying opportunity.
Links:
EarningsCast
Business 2.0
Inside [...]

Russell Beattie ay Yahoo has a lengthy post about RealNames. It’s a generous and thoughtful piece. Thanks for the link Russell.
There are a couple of things worth knowing.
Firstly RealNames didn’t really crash in the bubble. At least not directly. We were profitable and growing fast (about 120% a quarter back in Q1 2002.
Secondly, we had [...]

Google had it’s first earnings call Thursday. If you are interested in either search or advertising online it is really worth an hour of your time. Lot’s of questions out there. Is Google overheated? Are they doomed to fail? Are they the EBay of Data? Listen and decide for yourself.

Then it hit me. This is [...]