CJ parent company, Valueclick has just announced that it will acquire Fastclick. I personally think it’s a brilliant move, as it helps them to consolidate their position in the industry. ValueClick is really coming into it’s own. However, this latest acquisition opens the door to another question: Who is going to acquire ValueClick? My best [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Google News Releases RSS & Atom Feeds
Just in! Google News will now offer their news service in RSS format. Just visit this page for more information.
Freakonomics
The Google Blog announced that the authors of Freakonomics, the latest New York Times bestseller, visited both Google and Yahoo to discuss their book. After reviewing the Freakonomics blog, I was very intrigued, so I’ve already ordered the book from Amazon. I’ll post a review as soon as I’ve read it. In the meantime, I’ll [...]
Yahoo Releases Podcast Search Engine
Yahoo has just released their podcasting search engine. Podcasting is the way forward, whether it be videocasting or audiocasting – which broadly falls under mediacasting. What the heck am I saying????? Ok, let’s start from the beginning! What is a Podcast? Wikipedia defines podcasting as: Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the [...]
Yahoo Launches Adsense-like product
CNet has just reported that Yahoo will release a product similar to Google Adsense. It’s about time!! Adsense makes up a large portion of Google’s network by allowing them to tap into a wide network of blogs and websites on an ad hoc basis. Yahoo obviously realises the need to compete with Google on this [...]
Vinny Lingham is an International Award winning Entrepreneur & Search Engine Marketer. He is currently CEO of