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Acquisitions Keep On Rollin’

Monday, 21 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Will the madness ever end?!? Microsoft is picking up online advertising vendor aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in cash almost doubling the Google’s price for Doubleclick We’re not done there though with rumors flying the Google is adding RSS syndication vendor (and personal favorite) Feedburner to their roster. Following Yahoo’s brilliant pick up of

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Killer Startups and Web 2.0 Developments

Wednesday, 09 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I spent a few minutes at True Ventures last night, home to comparison shopping datafeed start-up SingleFeed (of which, from time to time, I’ve encouraged your consideration). That entrepreneurial environment holds tremendous appeal for me due to the passion, innovation, and risk taken by all who endeavor to create and I always enjoy translating offline

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Digg Hostile Takeover

Wednesday, 02 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly

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Come on AOL…

Monday, 30 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I’ll let TechCrunch summarize this one as I think the image speaks for itself.

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A Little Digg Will Do Ya

Monday, 30 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Clocking in at 465 diggs yesterday, SEO’Brien went down for the count, unable to handle the hundreds of hits per second. My apologies to those that tried to reach the site, I’ve moved the server to a different host and we’re alive and kicking again. Here’s the article Not About Self-aggrandizement This experience made me

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Published in Change Log, Insights / Research, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Blogging with WordPress

Saturday, 28 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Well that’s the last time I ever do that. I’ve spent the better part of my week redesigning SEO’Brien in WordPress after being convinced of its superiority as a blogging platform. Why? Might you ask. The site looks better doesn’t it? Cleaner and much more aesthetically pleasing. I hope you like it. Besides, it gave

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Change Log

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Online Industry Events in One Calendar

Thursday, 19 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

For years, I have been frustrated with our industry’s conference and event promotion. Without a single, comprehensive calendar of search and marketing conferences, we’re left to subscribe to every newsletter and publication just to be informed of an upcoming event. Still, we often miss the smaller, local seminars and meetings. This year, I practically neglected

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Published in Change Log, Conferences / Events, Vertical Search, Web 2.0

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