Social and New Media Solutions for a Connected Age
The Olympic IOC has released guidelines for the 2008 Olympics regarding blogging, podcasting and user generated content. It’s not good.
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Oprah and Susie Orman demonstrate the power of free content online.
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Social media burnout and marketing mashups
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Microsoft has been fishing for Yahoo for years now and finally they have snagged them. Yahoo is doing alot of flopping and trashing around, but they’re a fish on a hook at this point. Fighting is only going to make it harder.
It is sad to see though, because Yahoo was one of the Internet pioneers, one of the first websites many of us old timers ever went to. It was simple and useful and fun. Now Yahoo is a convoluted, complex mess. If Microsoft can do anything worthwhile with Yahoo is an open question. They will also have to deal with massive culture clash and most likely a big brain drain. But Microsoft is desperate to compete better with Google and this could be their best shot. Competition is a good thing in this market as Google could become as fat and lazy as Microsoft has with too much dominance.
Note to Yahoo: when it’s checkmate, there are no options.
Talk about Superbowl ads and Election 2008. Despite the social media outbreak, both these major events still mostly rely on big media, big money and big advertising.
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Comments on the proposed takover of Yahoo by Microsoft
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