http://stanleywong.org Musings from the Interactive Adman Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:07:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There has been a lot of press about the problems at Yahoo! and their 100 day quest to reinvigorate the company. With all this bad press, one has to remember that Yahoo! has: Huge consumer audience - check Large advertising base/reach - check Number of branded websites - check Recognizable Brand Name - ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/09/29/the-eye-of-the-tiger/ Yahoo! just announced tonight that they acquired Blue Lithium for $300M in an all cash deal. This is an excellent move by Yahoo! to pick up one of the leading companies in the performance marketing space. Blue Lithium boasts a data driven targeting platform that is one of ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/09/05/excellent-move-yahoo-acquires-blue-lithium/ I just watched an interview by Kara Swisher, Boomtown, of Jason Calacanis of Mahalo on the All Things D website. For the life of me I still don’t see how Mahalo will scale. Yahoo!’s original directory started off with a team of Surfers (editors) who created and organized and ontology. Yahoo! ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/07/17/17/ A recent research report from Microsoft (NY Times article) claimed that approximately 11% of search results and as much as 30% of some competitive search results contain Internet Content SPAM. Spammers create these pages for the sole purpose of profiting from advertisements by fooling the search engines (i.e. ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/04/03/the-price-of-internet-content-spam/ Just came across this very interesting article on "Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads are Better Than One." The article talks about examples of harnessing human behaviors and interactions into three distinct areas: Creation (Ex. Open Source Software, Wikipedia) Prediction (Ex. Pickspal.com, Stockpickr, American Idol) Organization (Ex. Google's PageRank, Digg.com, DMOZ) The concept of crowdsourcing ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/03/23/crowdsourcing-is-really-self-organization/ Brilliant! I am very impressed by the recent release of several Digg style user feedback and voting mechanisms applied to improving companies and products. There are two forward thinking companies who have gained quite a bit of press: Dell Ideastorm - No doubt part of the effort to revive the ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/02/25/harnessing-consumer-voice-to-improve-products-customer-experience/ Last month, I found out the patent for the Yahoo! Buzz Index (US Patent 7,146,416) was granted. I had a great time working with Janice Yoo, Elliot Yasnovsky, and KT Lim on building this project. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo's Buzz This patent had me wondering how Yahoo presently measures ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/01/12/my-yahoo-buzz-index-patent-has-been-granted/ My friends, Ali & Hadi Partovi, has launch a new service in beta called iLike. iLike is a cool new music discovery service that hooks into your playlist on iTunes. Add a bit a social community and shake it up with Web 2.0 goodness and you have iLike. iLike ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/01/06/ilike-it-very-much/ I just read Rick Skrenta's great blog post, "Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing" Rick is right on the money with a lot of his observations, especially the fact that Google has built their huge lead on the backs of the Search and Advertising dominance. One thing I'd like to add ... http://stanleywong.org/2007/01/03/google-take-all/ Wow... The day after the Yahoo! earnings release the stock gets hammered by 20%. That is a huge chunk of market capitalization being lost due to a delay in the launch of the Panama project by an additional 3 months. Seems like the street is losing confidence in ... http://stanleywong.org/2006/07/19/yahoo-q2-earnings/