DISQUS

The real question is how are ad networks helping/hurting web-publishers (and their shareholders) and what will Yahoo's new network mean to all this once it has ramped up to full speed and continues to scale?

Happy New Year to you David. May next year bring you lots of smiles and not as many dust-bunnies as last year. :)

I agree with your thoughts on Jewish funerals and Yom Kippur will always bring back the thoughts of wearing dress shoes that are too tight (since only being worn 1x a year.) I think a healthy dose of Yoga thrown into any religion could help anyone ... I find it more spiritually lifting than any traditional service I've sat through.

I love the new look! Very spiffy!

the math... i'm not a fan of though! ;-)

Adsense for conversations? Isn't that just called "gMail"?

Robert,
I can't disagree with you more. Why not "follow everyone" then? I don't think you following that many people is "authentic." You don't read their tweets... how can you even claim to be following them.

It's a giant river of chatter... you look for the big fish (like Calacanis to borrow your example) and ignore the little fish. I don't follow you because although I've met you in person and think you are quality guy, the relationship with you on Twitter is a waste of attention because your attention is too distracted.

P.S. I don't think you even believe this position you're taking and are only doing it to get more comments to your blog.

Search is a commodity. Yahoo! and Google's SERP's are nearly identical to the un-trained (non-SEO) eye. Have a look: http://twingine.no/search.php?q=scoble&lang=

The difference in market-share comes from brand equity and (more importantly) DISTRIBUTION. People 'google' and advertisers spend budget with Google because of their vast network of publishers who syndicate their SERP's, adsense and domain-related adsense.

If MSN or YHOO wants to win here, they better marketing AND better distribution. The SERPS are just the commodity in this game.

Does the stencil actually have to say 'STENCIL'? LOL

wow. great commercial for goog. truly hits on the value they provide a SMB. impressive.

WTF on the Nikon... I thought you were a canon-man. ;-)

What would Hawk say?! LOL

Best of luck Robert!

throw me a bone dave and accept my friend invite! ;-)

welcome to the new face of facebook. here are a couple more examples I've been "collecting." One back from July 27, 2007:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mil8/917285149/

comments are open? no way! when? why?

Very good analysis of the issues. I totally agree with you. Mike writes, 'the event organizers had it all wrong' and then continues, 'i read 10% of my email' and when asked by Rick if he'll do the show says, 'I said sure, if we can work out the details.'

No "Starving Students" for your move? ;-)

There's a lesson in marketing for 'ya... Hire under-nourished, studious kids who need to augment their income from Mommy and Daddy with dangerous labor involving refrigerators and breakables.

Cool event! When is typepad expo?!

Dave,
Thank you for your excitement. Things are coming together and with the help of you and your friends, the event will be killer.

Read all about on the wiki.

Great meeting you @ the expo.

best,
marc

cool company. I'll check it out.

BTW, I think "beta" is the new "black." :P

Stubb's BBQ.

Robert,
It seems like it's wishful thinking to *expect* your competitors to link to you for better reporting on a topic. At the end of the day, the sites you take issue with are your competitors. As far as I can tell, they did not steal your content and not credit you...they reported on the same story you did but did not link to you for more in-depth coverage. [Your point that you posted :30 minutes before they did is not material since they could have had more editorial review processes to go through including legal...which you probably do not.] Hoping they'd do this is one thing...but expecting them to and calling them out for not doing it... I don't think that's appropriate.

Because of your rant, I watched the video tour. It was interesting and entertaining. Perhaps that was the end-goal...

You create great content...you competitors shouldn't be expected to pimp it for you.

best,
marc

you lost me at, "web 2.0" LOL!

too bad online poker is now illegal. you can be sure that steve wynn would be building on the next soon to be discovered island in second life.

http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php?i=2962&t;=love&l;=en

Looking forward to seeing where we end up beaming it from... Mexico got nixed from the plans. :(

ahh... you should've swung by! Sorry we missed you on your trip! :(

Five days...two Y! parties... What's going on next week!? ;-)