Why wouldn’t Google own all media?

No really, why wouldn’t Google own all media. I think it would be reliable, a monopole always gives you security. Think of our ancestors, who had to get by whith only one busline, one railway company, telephony company and electricity supplier. They were also reliable in their failures. They were just like a member of the family or a friend, or the dear old lady that you buy your vegetables from.

Now, to be serious, i think you realized i’m talking about the word of the day: Google wants to purchase Twitter. Of course they do. People use it like crazy, we started to search on twitter topics rather than googling things, it’s fast, snappy.

In one word, the best asset of the moment. And if there’s a thing people can’t do without, Google must own it, just like it happened with Feedburner for instance.

I see that readwriteweb published different opinion of media specialists. One says Google could easily reproduce the platform. So what? We do have other platforms, but they’re just not Twitter, as well as other search engines are not Google ;)

I say we prepare for our wonderful weekend and wish them the best of luck if it’s true: the Twitter guys would be getting 20 million, that means twenty cozy islands in the Pacific, and Google would get also what they want: one step closer to controlling all media :)).

Care to invest in social media?

Well, have you got $695 to spare?

Because that’s the price of the Social Networks:Five Consumer Trends for 2009 report, which will have you rethinking your budgets in a flash. The smart people discovered that the consumer oriented marketing that social media allows is followed consequently by…the money :)

The Social Networks report analyzes key trends that online marketers should be keeping an eye on in 2009.
The growth that social networks have exhibited over the past few years shows little sign of abating. By 2013, an estimated 52% of Internet users will be regular social network visitors.
Will 2009 be the year that marketers and social networks figure out how to harness the myriad bits of information that consumers share about their likes, dislikes and purchase preferences—and turn them to a profit?

Key questions the “Social Networks” report answers:

* How many people use social network sites?
* How are the demographics and usage patterns changing?
* Will Facebook overtake MySpace?
* Where do Twitter and mobile phones fit in?
* How do consumers use social networks in the purchase process?
* And many others…

You cand DOWNLOAD the pricy report here, and if you do so, please share info on the later results of that investment :)

Got flash games? Make money out of them.

If you have a flash games site, or some flash games on your site, you might consider monetizing them. Yes, that’s right, they’re no longer doing it just for text and video!

TicTacTi, an israeli startup, came up with a great and really easy to use idea, in which the flashgame on your site could display ads in a contextual manner.

All you have tot do is follow te instructions in the video below and go to TicTacTi for more information. The ads ould originate from adexchangers like Doubleclick or the publisher’s adserver (let’s say Oberon or HeyZap). Of course TicTacTi will charge its own comission to that.

Youtube breaks the US 100 million viewers milestone

Youtube published today the comscore.com results for the January audiences, and they are both impressive and incredible: 100 million viewers in the United States alone, with 6.3 milion videos being viewed.

That is to surpass by 91% the last years’s results.

Facebook empowers the users

On the official Facebook blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that they dedicated the past week to working on a new set of Terms. The reviewing of the terms happened as a result of more and more users wanting to contribute to “the process of governing the site”.

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Gmail is down

… and Twitter is speaking about it. More than 400 messages per minute about the fact that Gmail is down!

Later update: The Google Group called Gmail is down is full of pr0n.

Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl on nytimes.com

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Searching for expensive domain names?

Rhetorical question, I know :-), but it looks like even there is an international financial crisis, people are interested in expensive domain names.

TechCrunch published a list of very expensive domains after the recent purchase of toys.com domain name by Faculty Lounge with $1,15M in an auction organized as a result of
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Why should I use cuil.com?

Couple of days ago, a human error blocked the entire Google Search Engine for 55 minutes. Some of the blogs I read from time to time wrote about the fact that Cuil.com may be used instead of Google.

Results for downloadwin.com are online poker, weather tracker, blackjack cassino and others, related to those 3. Where is the relevance of this search engine?

Why Google Search blocked all results?

Google warning interstitial: Visiting this web site may harm your computer! Is it a virus or a Google power demonstration that should show us the internet without Google Search?

LE: The blocking demonstration is not only for english content on google.com. Also all spanish based Google search engines are down. Este sitio puede danar tu equipo

Human error: This is the final edit of this article. It was a simple and human error, said Google, and this Google glitch causes confusion, said StopBadware.org. The internet is safe now. :-)

Few hours ago, Google changed its main page, inserting under each and every result a “This site may harm your computer.” link.

As this seemed to be too easy, Google changed also the links to all results websites. This being told, picking and clicking any search result will redirect you to an interstitial page that will block everything and let you with only 2 suggestions.
1. Return to the previous page and pick another result.
2. Try another search to find what you’re looking for.

As far as I can see, StopBadware.org, the website recommended by Google interstitial page to help me in this matter and give me more info about the fact that I cannot view a specific page, is down. Also it has a curious Whois.

Later Edit: Everything is ok now… Google stopped showing “This site may harm your computer.” link and interstitial page.

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