A couple of months ago, I laid out Google’s emerging strategy to compete with everyone and everything, and to do it all solo. Unlike competitors (even large ones such as…
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Google’s new strategy: We do everything
Several years ago, I wrote a post called What’s Google’s Strategy? where I broke down the search giant’s real business model: advertising anything everywhere. And while I have had more to…
Read MoreWhy you should be more like Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ tragic death yesterday resulted in great accolades, making it easy to forget that he took a lot of criticism for his leadership style during his tenure at Apple….
Read MoreApple is more successful than powerful
Apple was anointed the world’s most valuable brand yesterday, according to the folks who know how to calculate such things. The headline said that they surpassed Google, who had a…
Read MoreIs Microsoft losing its grip?
I like to say that Internet marketing is more about marketing than about the Internet, but every once in a while, the Internet gets in our way. If you follow…
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IBM buys Coremetrics as the analytics battle heats up
IBM doesn’t make too many mistakes, but I thought it made a big one four years ago when it sold off its SurfAid Web analytics business to Coremetrics. Today, IBM…
Read MoreWhy Google doesn’t sweat phone apps
You’ve seen the ads: “There’s an app for that.” There does seem to be an app for just about anything when you own an iPhone, so you’d think that Google…
Read MoreHow can our products be remarkable?
Seth Godin is fond of saying that we must make our products and our companies remarkable, but it’s easier to say than to do (as Seth well knows). And I…
Read MoreThe last 2009 Internet predictions you’ll have to read
Following the New Year, it started to feel like we were the only blog not making predictions about the year ahead. Rather than continuing to feel so alone I figured,…
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