Enough with the 'start-ups'!

Is it me but are we being bombarded on daily basis with latest 'start up' from 'The Bay area'.

Scribd, http://www.scribd.com/ is the YouTube for documents!!!!
Youtube i get and understand, but trawling through tons of useless documents, upload because someone has nothing better to do with them.
We not convert all this info into HTML and publish it on-line...oh yeah you already can at hundred of other site already....want my CV go to Linked in, whats the point of uploading a soft copy to Scribd?
Scribd does have one advantage that it converts all the docs (no matter what the format) so they can all be viewed and downloaded.

Yahoo the Brave!

Well done to Yahoo for saying 'No' and standing up against the Microsoft money machine...even if it is just to get a little more cash out of them

Bebo for sale...again!

TechCrunch are reporting that Google might be about to buy Bebo...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/06/rumor-is-google-about-to-buy-bebo-for-1-billion-to-15-billion-or-will-it-be-myspace/

This wouldn't be the first time we have heard that someone wants to buy them, but if this is true it does show how quickly Google can respond to the threat from Mircohoo!

Searchability is key

Following on from my Blog about the perfect CV.
Susanna Boyd writes in her latest blog about creating the perfect CV.
http://www.recruitingbloggers.com/rbs/2008/02/speaking-out-ab.html

Searchability is key as is using Keywords

Notchup.com

Joel writes this interesting article on new start-up Notchup.com

http://www.cheezhead.com/2008/01/23/notchup/

Joel is right with the fact that we have seen these kinds of business make a big splash just to turn out to be made by a little stone! Jobster being a classic example in the US and Zubka in the UK
www.notchup.com

End of Yahoo?

With the end of Yahoo in sight, what does this mean for us using search advertising and Search in general?
A combination of Microsoft and Yahoo will have Google worried, as this new merger suddenly becomes a viable competitor. Something Google has never had in recent years. Though in my opinion neither Yahoo or Microsoft have a Search facility to match Google's.

However a competitor to Google AdWords is something that i would welcome. Anything to bring prices down.

Whatever happens the looser is Yahoo. Their pride will be in shreds at having to admit the Google simply does a better job and that’s the reason why they will become a subsidiary of Microsoft

How 'e' are you?

After last weeks Enhance Media Conference: The Year Ahead 2008, I thought I should do my bit and promote their How 'e' are you survey.
www.howeru.com

For a Website Manager i got a fairly disappointing 72...