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Some Fresh News and a Look Into The Past
There is lots going on right now that internet marketers should take notice to. Mashable has announced that they got one of the first beta invites to Streamy, which is the much hyped “digg-killer”. The site is ajax based, and offers real time interaction between users, something that Digg.com has failed to do so far. I think it will be very interesting to see how the digg community itself will react to a more ajax based , user friendly site. One thing is certain, Streamy.com will have some major disadvantages in the search engines being ajax based.
Taking a step back from the web 2.0 scene for a second, let’s take a quick look back into the past. Lets start with 4 years ago. 4 years ago today two landmark pieces of internet history took place. First off, Netscape Communications Corporation was disbanded by Time Warner, ending an era that saw Netscape help the internet to grow into what it is today . In 2006 Netscape would relaunch as a Digg-like user community.
With that, the Mozilla foundation was also launched 4 years ago today. Time just flies by doesn’t it? Taking a look at the past prepares us for the future, and at the very least offers a motivation at how quickly a business or idea can rise into something massive.
Moving back even further, what about 10 years ago? According to the Wall Street Journal 10 years ago blogging was born. You simply can’t say blogging is the future anymore, it’s here and it’s now. Blogging is probably the most common way for a new internet marketer to easily make money online and it’s easy to see they won’t be going anywhere soon.
If blogging is the most common way to make money online, what is the fastest and easiest? Dave Naylor says it’s the Digg.com spam problem that has been absolutely rampant lately. I had noticed it myself and recently looked into it. The ones doing it well are doing it very well and ranking for some decent keywords #1 - #3. Basically they are using Digg as a parasitic host, and then using the comment section to enter a slew of affiliate links.
Last but not least, Google is getting sued again. Two more times actually. The first is a small Chinese company that is getting contacted by several people thinking they are the search engine Google. According to the news.com article, “The search engine’s Chinese name – a transliteration of the English word “Google” – was also used in Beijing Guge’s commercially registered name”. No news yet on what hopes they have, but I imagine it will settle out of court.
The bigger of the two lawsuits comes out of Australia. An Australian watchdog (ACCC) is taking Google to court for deceptive ads. The claim involves Google’s sponsored ads, and in this case the ads had titles and descriptions of a certain dealership, but then forwarded to 1 of 2 different competitors to that dealership. There is also a good thread going on about it at webmasterworld.
That was some of the more important stuff going on right now. Lots more going on, but I gotta get back to work. Like Ben Affleck says in Boiler Room, “You want vacation time, go teach 3rd grade public school.”
2 Responses to “Some Fresh News and a Look Into The Past”
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July 28th, 2007 at 3:38 am
Nice summary K.Healey
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:01 am
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