Back in 2006, I posted about the Promise of Web 2.0 - Comparison to Macros, IDEs, and Visual Basic and pointed out that Visual Basic was a huge innovation that allowed many new developers to build applications. We've been using Google Apps as the basis for developing some very interesting online applications. MORE >>

It sure would put pressure on Google if they had Facebook competing on one side of them for share of users’ time and Amazon flanking them on the other side by providing search to every website out there that might threaten AdSense and even Google’s core search business. Not Google. Rewind. These are very different. MORE >>

remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, If you don’t understand why this is important I encourage you to do a little Google research.  craze.  There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 MORE >>

Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, Zynga and others. They dither on decision-making. We were innovating. MORE >>

Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT) was founded by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, who sold their last company, dMarc, to Google in 2006; the two also founded AdForce (sold to CMGi) and 2CAN Media (also sold to CMGi). Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>. MORE >>