“”Hi, No one will ever own a 100% of anything on the Internet…unless you, me, and everyone else in the world are nothing more than ‘lambs’…aka…sheep. Lots of really,really,really…smart people here…so I do not think anyone here is a lamb or sheep at heart…far from it. The fact Google owns 63.whatever of search right [...]
There are two ways to get liquidity from domain names.. If you have a good search-term style domain with type-in traffic, you can sell that traffic (like owning a cow and selling the milk) or you can sell the name itself (sell the cow). In the final analysis all investors want to know they have [...]
Omar writes (from the bay area): “”Frank, It’s brutal out there. A few days ago my company put an ad for a Personal Assistant. We expected about 50 applicants. Imagine our surprise when we received over 350, all from local candidates. So I did some thinking about why this happened…. I think the subprime [...]
Venture capital meets Reality web tv. http://www.youbethevc.com/ Winners gets funding and support from Google, WPP, GrandCentral, Pownce and Slide, plus others.
The death of e-mail. by Chad Lorenz http://www.slate.com/id/2177969/fr/flyout Ten years later, e-mail is looking obsolete. According to a 2005 Pew study, almost half of Web-using teenagers prefer to chat with friends via instant messaging rather than e-mail. Last year, comScore reported that teen e-mail use was down 8 percent, compared with a 6 percent increase [...]
http://www.nysun.com/article/66382 Quote here: “”Governor Spitzer of New York announced yesterday that his state will start collecting taxes on Internet sales made in New York, even if the etailer has no physical presence in the State. Whose to blame for this? It’s the affiliate programs. NY is saying that these affiliates are the equivalent of having [...]
http://www.wrevenue.com/2007/11/14/dabbling-in-domaining/ Quote: “”I was at a dinner party the other night when a friend started asking me if I knew anything about domaining. Here was a guy that works in a “real job” and knows nothing about Internet marketing, but he told me that he registered 10 domain names and had listed them on [...]
Dominik Mueller sends story: “”Imagine an advertising world where… spending on interactive, one-to-one advertising formats surpasses traditional, one-to-many advertising vehicles, and a significant share of ad space is sold through auctions and exchanges. Advertisers know who viewed and acted on an ad, and pay based on real impact rather than estimated “impressions.” Consumers self-select [...]
Quote: “”When a major network turned down Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick’s pilot, they took “Quarterlife” to the Internet…”” Something big happened today while everybody was looking the other way.. http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1573861&vid=187641 This 3 minute clip is must-see TV for every domainer.. Think about your own shows and your ability to drive traffic to those shows [...]
A CEO resigning.. Investor sentiment turning against it.. Big mortgage related losses announced and more to come, a nervous financial world. Those of you who’ve read the comments on my recent investment club post/thread understand my concern relating to publicly traded financial stocks. Gabe writes tonight: “”Hey Frank, Looks like Citigroup made a big move and [...]