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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Open Innovation
The crowd (crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, peer production) is wise when it is focused; http://tr.im/t0tg
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Gerrit Eicker
Twitter Underestimated?
SEL: Bit.ly seems to overestimate Twitter views. Google Analytics seems to underestimate them; http://tr.im/t0rb
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Gerrit Eicker
Google or: to Google?
Tushnet: The risk of becoming generic is so low, the benefits of being on the top of mind are so high; http://tr.im/t0nc
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Gerrit Eicker
More Information!
Cluetrain, the new normal: Customers and citizens always expect more information, no matter how much they have.
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Gerrit Eicker
Leaders
Cluetrain, the new normal: Leaders who lead as if they are the incarnation of Business Man look increasingly foolish.
Gerrit Eicker
Relay for Life
One day. One night. Annual Second Life Relay for Life to raise funds for cancer research this weekend; http://tr.im/sU8z
Gerrit Eicker
Google: More Cost-cutting Than Revenue Growth
The earnings strength of Google has more to do with cost-cutting than with revenue growth; http://tr.im/sU2k
Gerrit Eicker
The Home Office: Commonplace
Cluetrain, the new normal: Working from home has become commonplace for many people.
Gerrit Eicker
Google: Advertisers Coming Back
Schmidt, Google: Business appeared to have stabilized and advertisers were coming back; http://tr.im/sK6O
NYT: “Google’s net income was $1.48 billion, or $4.66 a share, up from $1.25 billion, or $3.92 a share, a year ago. Excluding the cost of stock options, Google’s second-quarter profit was $5.36 a share, exceeding the $5.09 a share that Wall Street analysts had expected. – Google’s revenue climbed to $5.52 billion, from $5.37 billion last year. Net revenue, which excludes commissions paid to advertising partners, was $4.07 billion, up from $3.9 billion a year earlier.”
pC: “A quarter ago, Google ‘had no idea where the bottom was,’ CEO Eric Schmidt said during the company’s earnings call Thursday. But now the business ‘appears to have largely stabilized,’ he said, calling out the recovering performance of several verticals, including shopping and travel. (A notable exception was finance). Schmidt also noted the performance of the company’s YouTube division and its display advertising business – which both have had their performance questioned recently – saying both had ‘performed very well.’ And how about a recovery? ‘Too early for us to tell,’ Schmidt said.”
SEL: “So growth was flat quarter over quarter. According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google’s business has ‘stabilized’ and has seen growth in certain areas in the midst of a still-bad economy.”
ClickZ: “Google’s display ad business fared well in the second quarter, as the company tested new creative formats and monetized a larger number of YouTube videos.”
VB: “Some say Q2 is bound to be Google’s low point during the economic downturn. That remains to be seen – but if it’s true, the company is in pretty good shape. It reported a 15 percent uptick in the number of clicks on paid ads that run alongside search results – but that was countered by a 13 percent decrease in the cost-per-click.”