I didn’t go, but my good friend Jonathan Andrew Wolter went to the ACM Relfections Projections conference and provides a great post on some of the key speeches at the conference. Enjoy!
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Google (GOOG)
Danny Sullivan to Continue with SES (Official)
Incisive Media and Danny Sullivan today announced that both parties have signed an agreement to continue to work together to produce the market-leading Search Engine Strategies series of conferences and exhibitions.
This past August, Danny Sullivan, who has always been an independent contractor, announced his intention to step away from active involvement with SES at the end of 2006. Since then, both parties have remained in contact and have reached an accord to extend their relationship through 2007.
Questionable Google Ads For Splog Creation
Mass Blog Creator on a domain called Googlenizer http://googlenizer.com/wmi/? Make thousands of dollars each month? This can only mean one thing, splogs. Why does Google allow advertising for tools known to be creating the duplicate content problems?
Google Acquires Youtube – 10 Unanswered Questions
Congrats to Michael Arrington on breaking the rumor and upstaging all of the rest of the media and business press in this matter that became a reality very quickly. Frederick Marckini of iProspect stated that Youtube would be acquired for more than Myspace was, I bet he didn’t think it would be almost three times as much as his guess stated in July! I joked with him that he held a position in Youtube during the session, he probably wishes that he did now…
10 Unanswered Questions:
1. Will users stay with the recently scrubbed and censored Youtube or will they migrate to other alternatives?
2. Why are the investment analysts and “major media” only allowed on the announcement conference call? Why not bloggers, why not the person, Michael Arrington, who broke the rumor and story in the first place?
3. Why can’t the Investor Relations, Press and Blogs at Google ever be in sync? The Official Google Blog still has no information about it. Instead there are posts on “Inside Macs at Google”…very strange.
4. This is what a multi-million dollar rat looks like, will the next of kin receive their fair share?
5. The Google Press Release states “This afternoon, we announced that we are acquiring YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. YouTube will operate independently following the close of the transaction, which is expected in the fourth quarter of this year.” Why is this the first company that Google has ever kept independent?
6. There are a few theories on number five. I’m no lawyer, but if it’s kept as a separate legal entity, it might be able to limit any content liabilities to that entity?
7. How much is 44 seconds of everyone’s time (maybe a bit more now) worth?
8. Eric was forceful in the call about stating that these will remain separate entities and curiously he asserted Google Video will become even more important. Am I the only one that is mildly confused by this statement? Or is there some larger segmentation or story here?
9. Many people have asked “Why didn’t Microsoft buy Youtube?” With a large stake held by the people who funded Google, it was clear that Google had the right to make the last bid. Microsoft also likely would have had to pay cash due to it’s lack of a high growth currency to purchase Youtube and it’s not certain they could monetize it as well.
10. How long ago did these talks start? I’d say around this time.
What do you think the answers to these questions are?
UPDATE: Due to the popularity of this post, it’s getting alot of spam thrown at it. Comments are closed as of 6/4/2007.
Goolge Sitemaps, er, WebMaster Tools – Odd Behavior
Google Webmaster Tools tells me:
https://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue
Indexing summary
Pages from your site are included in Google’s index. [?]
Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Sep 24, 2006 .
Potential indexing problems:
We do not know about all the pages of your site. You can submit a Sitemap to tell us more about your site.
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One problem, I already did that! Hey Matt Cutts/Vanessa Fox, if I already have an active Google Sitemap, er Webmaster Tool, how can you not know about all the pages of the site and give me an inaccurate message???
Email crisis!!!
Yahoo! and Gmail both need to put work into their e-mail software. I’ve outlined this in previous posts.
Yesterday was the last straw though. My Yahoo! webmail lets spam through that it shouldn’t – all the time – while classifying real email as spam. Yet yesterday I was told that an email from a relatively new gmail account that I sent was classified as spam by a Yahoo! Mail account I sent it to. Gmail lets some spam through to my Inbox, while other e-mails not only haven’t made it to Inbox, they didn’t even go to the spam folder. Then inappropriately classifies one of my shared domain servers as spam.
Alright enough! How in the world is is anyone supposed to communicate in a reliable fashion? Maybe you guys should have some people work on fixing this stuff?
It’s a serious problem whether you are in London, New York, San Francisco or Singapore. Regardless of what portal you apply, no matter what your job or career.
Google’s 8th Birthday today
Nice Graphic…