A little bit of news. I have recently reacquired the RealNames domain name - realnames.com. This is some 30 months after we were forced to close the company.
It feels good to have 100% ownership back of a thing I spent 5 years creating. To be honest I’m not yet sure what I will do with [...]
Thanks for the pointer Dave.
The new Google toolbar clearly rips off the RealNames idea. I’m flattered. Shame they didn’t give credit, after all I am one of the inventors of this patent.
Maybe I’ll go and start a search engine
Microsoft’s own version of the RealNames idea is overwritten by the Google toolbar. With Microsoft’s version [...]
Yusuf Mehdi has been boasting on CNet about the revenue traction MSN has been getting of late. Full article here.
There are some key facts for those familiar with the RealNames story. Start with this quote from Mehdi:
“For the 2002 fiscal year, which ended June 30, MSN’s online ad revenue grew $40 million, he said. Between [...]
Well, it’s been a while since Microsoft decided not to proceed with the RealNames Keyword product in the browser. Now …. 5 months later, MSN has announced that MSN 8 - the one with the $300m advertising campaign - will include Keywords. Suprise suprise!
Danny Sullivan - on his SearchEngineWatch site says the following:
“There is a [...]
Kevin Werbach has commented on Microsoft’s IE market share.
I left the following comment:
“IE has become - defacto - a piece of infrastructure. It is no less a gateway to content and services than Windows is a gateway to applications.
In the world of web services - where binding the browser to a service will be [...]
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