This WEEK in GOOGLE 155
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Episode 155 |
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Recorded: July 18, 2012 Duration: 1:44:22 FriendFeed conversation |
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This WEEK in GOOGLE 155: To the Cat Cave
Panel
- Leo Laporte (@leolaporte • friendfeed.com/leolaporte)
- Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani • friendfeed.com/ginatrapani)
- Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis • friendfeed.com/jeffjarvis)
Topics
- Marissa Mayer leaving Google for Yahoo and the very different reporting on that from:
- People.com, focusing on her glamorous looks and apartment
- Mike Arrington on Uncrunched: Marissa Mayer a new hope for Yahoo. He says this is a paradigm shift for Yahoo. Mayer is completely out of Yahoo’s league
- The Christian Science Monitor: Marissa Mayer: Yahoo's new CEO reignites working mother debate
- Jolie O'Dell on VentureBeat: The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to. Leo agrees. When Marissa didn't get selected for the 5 people running Google, he mentioned he thought she was being slighted.
- Business Insider: The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations
- Fred Wilson on Business Insider Yahoo Is No Longer Dead To Me
- Farhad Manjoo on Slate.com: Marissa Mayer Is in Over Her Head. That’s just how Yahoo’s new CEO likes it
- What is she going to do at Yahoo?
- Kill stuff, make Flickr wonderfull again, downsize staff and products.
- Sriram Krishnan gave some Unsolicited advice for Marisa Mayer
- Yahoo's business right now is ad sales. Not ad sales based on data like Google, since Yahoo doesn't have the data on us, but ads on top of content. Examples of that:
- OMG.com, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Kids.
- Katie Couric is doing an online show with Yahoo and ABC News
- Trip70 in the chat room points to Wikipedia List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services
- Are the knives out at Google now? Not according to Marisa's Twitter account.
- It might be an opportunity for Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook (and Apple?) to align against Google (as Leo discussed on MacBreak Weekly at 01:06:35).
- She should go after Twitter. She understands beads of information and data around that. But Yahoo's war chest is $2 billion. Not enough to buy Twitter, so she's got to build, not buy.
- Interesting discussion at Quora Why do people still work at Yahoo!?
- Marissa should call the people who had a vision for Yahoo, but left, like Caterina Fake,Stewart Butterfield, Cameron Marlow
- Digg
- In 2006 Kevin Rose could have sold Digg to Rupert Murdoch but his investors didn't want to. This stuff happens. PointCast turned down a $400 million offer from NewsCorp
- Coincidentally the person trying to get Digg to sell in 2006 was Ross Levinsohn, interim CEO of Yahoo until July 17, 2012
- Om Malik wrote that it is not about making money but whether Digg reinvented the news business. And it did: In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won
- Leo now uses News.me (a collaboration of the New York Times and Betaworks) to get an daily email with news read by his Facebook and Twitter friends.
- Search Engine Satisfaction Dips Slightly; Google & Bing Effectively Tied
- Gina uses DuckDuckGo
- A trip down search engine memory lane: Cuil and Blekko
- Google+ Maker Camp Targets Tech-Savvy Teens
- Teens can join online via hangsout in Google+
- Nexus 7, Google's new tablet
- Both Gina and Leo love the Nexus 7.
- Andy Ihnatko said The Nexus 7 is a real computer and it costs just $199.
- Size: is this the perfect size or is there no right size? This is where Google glasses and bendable glass is coming in.
- The Android Market has a lot of apps now
- Serial hacker says latest Android will be "pretty hard" to exploit
- Import ban on Motorola's Android products takes effect Wednesday
- And yet in the UK: Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn’t Copy IPad in U.K.
- Office 2013, using SkyDrive by default. Hands On: Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365
Segments
"We Do A Little Thing At The End"
- Gina's tip of the week:
- Jeff's number:
- Facebook ads in desktop and mobile News Feed outperform Twitter in-stream ads
- Twitter (0.266%)
- Facebook Mobile ads (1.140%) beat Facebook Web ads (0.588%)
- Number of Facebook referers Equals Google at 180 million
- Facebook ads in desktop and mobile News Feed outperform Twitter in-stream ads
- Leo's tool:
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- Official TWiG Site
- FriendFeed conversations room
- Story Links on Delicious
- Sririam Krishnan: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer
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