Vertical Case Study: G5 Focuses on Self-Storage Companies
Do you really need to have raised millions of dollars to succeed in selling search solutions to small businesses? It is a question that I often ask myself. Dan Hobin’s…
AOL Acquires Bebo
In an unexpected move, AOL has acquired social network Bebo for $850 million. A move into social networking is interesting for AOL given that portals have traditionally dropped the ball…
Yelp Puts Funding in Play: A Conversation With Jeremy Stoppleman
To follow up on the recent post about Yelp's funding, I was able to sit down with Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman yesterday at the company's San Francisco headquarters. The company…
Online Case Study: Gib Olander Buys a House
The future of real estate agents is a special cause of mine, since my wife is with Century 21. So whenever I hear someone has bought or sold a house,…
Online Video Boom Carries On
ComScore Video Metrix announced today that December saw 10 billion online video views -- the largest number to date. There were meanwhile 141 million total unique users to video sites.…
Classifieds on Video? Four Examples Here
When veteran newspaper design consultant Alan Jacobsen called last year to tout his new classified video site, Real People Real Stuff -- “the marriage of Craigslist and YouTube” -- I thought…
TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
Here is a roundup of posts from the last week in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. Reality Check on Yellow Pages The sell-off…
Competing for Attention in the Social Networking World: Part II
MySpace has taken yet another step to follow some of the strategies proved successful by its newly legitimized (and recognized) source of competition, Facebook. The company has announced it will…
Google + Twitter = Super Tuesday Mashup
There are lots of places to get your Super Tuesday coverage today. Some interesting online mashups I've found include The Washington Post's and Newsweek's streaming live coverage and MTV's network…
Microsoft and Yahoo!: TKG’s Take
Today’s big news is Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo!. The $44.6 billion bid represents a 62 percent premium on Yahoo!'s closing stock price yesterday, which was affected by Yahoo!’s…