Last week I spoke to Richard Dalton from Newsday and gave him my thoughts on Microsoft and Yahoo coming together for a story he was doing. The article ran in today's paper and can be seen here. Here are my thoughts from the piece: Chris Winfield, president of 10e20, an Internet marketing company… [read more]
In football, there is an old saying - "They came to play." What that means is the team is a competitor, they aren't going to be content to simply go through the motions and let things happen to them. For awhile now it seems like Yahoo Search has been willing to gladly accept the role that Google has… [read more]
I am a huge fan of browsing the web on my mobile device (a Blackberry 8830 World Edition from Verizon Wireless). In addition to great telephone reception and a speakerphone, the browser helps to load web pages quickly. It downloads full images and HTML pages really well and it browses mobile versions… [read more]
Yesterday I spoke to Jeff Graham from USA Today regarding Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang taking over for former CEO Terry Semel. My thoughts from the article: "Yahoo had to do something," says Chris Winfield, who runs 10e20, a New York firm that helps businesses run search-marketing campaigns. "I'm hoping… [read more]
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven information exchange website that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by other users. You can either ask a question (ex. What is the fastest animal?) or answer questions (ex. The cheetah). The question asker then gets to pick which is the best answer… [read more]
Yesterday I spoke with Jeff Graham from USA Today and I am quoted in his story about the alleged Microsoft and Yahoo deal. Could a potential Microsoft/Yahoo deal solve the freefall? Short answer: no. Long answer: Internet analysts say it couldn't hurt. "Overnight, MSN and Yahoo's market share doubles,"… [read more]
Even though Yahoo is still in the "Big 2" for search, not being #1 has got to be disturbing. It's like looking for your desired keyword term in the SERPs and finding that someone else is in the #1 position with you not far behind -- but you've apparently done everything you could possibly think of to… [read more]
After much waiting and anticipation, and at 3pm Pacific today, Yahoo will officially launch their Panama advertising platform. For anyone who is not familiar with the discussion surrounding the Panama system, I've put together a small FAQ on what you should know. What is this Panama? In a nutshell,… [read more]
So they predict that 2007 is the year of the Widget. MyBlogLog has been a big hit so far. Now Yahoo, after acquiring the primary widget preferred by thousands of bloggers, has gone the next step to create a nifty little widget that allows users to see how many incoming links their website has from… [read more]
Yesterday, an interesting article appeared on Wired about critical mistakes that Yahoo has made that has caused them to "blow it." Reporter Fred Vogelstein takes an in-depth look the failures of Yahoo over the past few years that has allowed Google to pull ahead of the former giant. The 5-page article,… [read more]
