: Why we sell advertising, not search results. A simple statement of fact gets right to the point. Perfect. I won’t use anything else anyhow, but it’s nice to have it confirmed. Especially with all the FUD going around on this issue lately.
Archives for March 2002
Someone at ESPN
has a sense of humour. Can you guess which player profile you get to using this link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/players/profile?statsId=666? That’s right – player profile #666 links to Miroslav Satan!
Business Week
published a great piece yesterday about music on the net: Entertainment Execs, Fear Not the Net. Going a bit further than the article, it’s in the music industry’s best interests to pump life back into Napster or an analogous system and use all the data as advanced market research. They don’t even need to know who’s trading what through the system – they could keep it totally anonymous and still get tons of information that would help them develop new artists more effectively AND work the back-catalog more efficiently. No matter how many files were traded, there are still tons of great revenue streams that they can use to make as much or more money as they do today.
Montrealers should remember
that this Wednesday is First Wednesday, our monthly dinner&beer&stuff. This will be almost 2 years since the first one. Go to La Cabane at about 8 Wednesday night.
Take a break
and read Bruce Sterling’s Information Wants to Be Worthless, his sort-of preview of the upcoming SXSW Interactive Festival. Now. Go.
