Is Twitter Planning To Monetize The Firehose?
A few months ago, I wrote in “The Twouble with Twitter Search“:…
What if online business model innovation is slowing down?
There is a widely held assumption that new business models will continue…
Online advertising is all about purchasing intent
A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from…
Micro vs. Macro Information Retrieval
The Probably Irrelevant blog has been quiet for a while, but I…
Google and Failure-Tolerant Cultures
I recently read Andrew Chen’s interesting post, Built to Fail: How companies…
Understanding the Basics of Google Analytics
If I could recommend one skill to business owners with a website…
The Impact of Real Time Search
The social web is fundamentally about enabling conversations at scale. Those conversations…
Prediction Is Hard, Especially About The Future
That Niels Bohr certainly knew what he was talking about! But that…