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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change

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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change

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While many hypothesized on why Google acquired Dodgeball last week (for example, Gary Price and Russell Glass), I think one of the most interesting posts came from Marc Canter. He wrote a semi-satirical semi-serious post describing the new way for […]

David Beisel
May 15, 2005 · 2  min.
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John Battelle’s blog identified Fathom’s recent announcement that search engine keyword prices increased 11% during the month in April. Despite a slight drop during the first two months of the year, it appears that the trend towards rising keyword prices […]

David Beisel
May 12, 2005 · < 1  min.
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My original post reacting to Jeff Bussgang’s thoughts on why Boston doesn’t have any great consumer hits argued that it is primarily due to culture. The West Coast general psyche is more comfortable with taking big risks for big rewards, […]

David Beisel
May 11, 2005 · < 1  min.
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Paul Kedrosky is saying, “This IDG Syndicate Conference in New York May 17/18 is turning into a real coming out party for RSS.” I, for one, am looking forward to attending the event next week. The speaker list definitely includes […]

David Beisel
May 11, 2005 · < 1  min.
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I usually don’t merely provide a link to another site without some commentary or opinion, but I really like Tim Yang’s post, “15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away).” […]

David Beisel
May 10, 2005 · < 1  min.
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People often mistakenly derive extraneous meaning out of the fact that two things are merely correlated. They will say, “A increases as B increases; if we change A, then that will affect B.” It’s actually more than a pet peeve, […]

David Beisel
May 10, 2005 · < 1  min.
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In an AdWeek article, Brian McAndrews, CEO of aQuantive is quoted as saying, “The Web site is going to replace the 30-second commercial as the expression of a brand.” Yes, as content accessed via the web replaces prime time television […]

David Beisel
May 9, 2005 · < 1  min.
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Just a few days last week after I blogged that we should “expect to start seeing more grumblings of dissent claiming that the blog promise is overhyped,” the NY Times ran a story titled, “A Blog Revolution? Get a Grip.” […]

David Beisel
May 9, 2005 · < 1  min.
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Two weeks ago Business Week featured a cover story, “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” Just another mainstream media recognition that blogs are having a profound effect on not just traditional media, but also the business world as well. And just […]

David Beisel
May 4, 2005 · 2  min.
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In Monday’s WSJ article “Web sites that exist only to sell advertising,” Lee Gomes complains how spam is clogging up search engine results pages and goes on to blame the major search engines themselves for the problem. He writes, “It’s […]

David Beisel
May 3, 2005 · 2  min.