GigaOm's Om Malik recently wrote a great post about how data without soul is meaningless. Om gave an example of Uber's car service, which offers surge pricing in cases of high demand/low supply. Essentially, in a world where everything is...
Om Malik of GigaOM says, “Almost a year ago, writing for GigaOM, Robert Young posted a piece that billed Google as a media company and eventually more a destination in the classic media sense. I've looked through the news articles and blog posts...
Om Malik has copies of Microsoft memos discussing the moves. Microsoft today announced the executive shake-up that has been rumored to be coming. Microsoft packed a number of promotions and departures into the press release.
Om Malik discussed Vlingo way back in August 2007, but we're glad the Times is highlighting innovations in mobile search and local search. Machine translation from voice to text promises to be the grail of local mobile search.
Om Malik hypothesizes that eBay will add a StumbleUpon search box to the Skype client, which it acquired last year, as a "desktop backdoor. As rumored last month, eBay has acquired social media service StumbleUpon for $75 million in cash.
A select group of content creators will get promotion on the YouTube platform, and we will help them monetize their content,” Jamie Byrne, VP of marketing at YouTube, told Om Malik on Thursday. Google's YouTube will begin paying top users for the...
This direction was implied in a WSJ quote from Steve Ballmer a few months ago, which Om Malik unearthed yesterday: Rumors continue to swirl this week about a potential Microsoft acquisition of Tellme.
With this new release, the company has succeeded, according to GigaOm's Om Malik. Services include "video aggregation, photo albums, weblogs, forums, sausages and sauerkraut," quips Malik in his review of the new service, noting that the end result...
Om Malik over at GigaOm has discovered that Yahoo is testing a new local search product in Bangalore and New Delhi. Known as OurCity, it is a city guide-like product that brings together a bunch of Yahoo social media products like Del.icio.us...
Note what Om Malik wrote about why Maybe -- but then again, it's not 10 percent of ALL Google's traffic, as Om wrote. But how much can you trust any of the figures that ratings services provide? In this post, I look at the latest comScore stats...
October that it had no plans to do free WiFi outside San Francisco, Om Malik points out that Earthlink's CEO says the two companies are looking to do a second city now. Poor old Google. No matter what they do, there's always some preexisting...
Om Malik has heard rumors that Google may be buying Writely, a company that can enable you to "write a document in a browser, much like you write on Microsoft Word. Postscript: Google just announced they bought them, more information here.
Yahoo's Senior VP of Engineering to Become Chief Product Officer - Over on Gigaom, Om Malik reports that Yahoo will name Ash Patel, the senior VP of engineering as their new chief product officer (CPO).
Om Malik reports that Google, Skype, and others have invested in FON, a wireless services startup. Om has described it in the past as, "Skype+Boingo+Open Source" but only in a WiFi context. Om's friend and also a friend of all of us here at SEW...
Om Malik has more on the deal and VoIP Inc.in this post. The News.com article: Google calls upon VoIP, reports that Google has signed a deal with VoiceOne to provide VoIP services for Google's click-to-call advertising service.
Postscript: From Business 2.0 and Om Malik From the news release: We are very pleased with our results for the fourth quarter as we achieved excellent performance across our businesses," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
Over on Gigaom, Om Malik reports that Yahoo will name Ash Patel, the senior VP of engineering as their new chief product officer (CPO). Patel will replace Geoff Ralston, who according to Malik, is leaving for "parts unknown.
Om Malik has an interesting post about something we've mentioned here on the blog several times and that Om and I have chatted about via email, that being the amount of material found in video search engines that is in-copyright but readily...
Om Malik reports that Toni Schneider, the VP in charge of the Yahoo Developer Network and, according to Malik, also helped with the Konfabultor (Yahoo Widgets) acquisition and in helping Yahoo to "flickrize", is leaving Sunnyvale to be the CEO of...
New articles from Garett Rogers and Om Malik further the speculation that Google will offer new video services in the near future. Meanwhile, Om Malik reports that Larry Page will discuss an improved Google Video during his CES presentation on Friday.
