Anonymous Speaks

For those interested in a little more about Anonymous and what they do. Al Jazeera recently posted a video, on their website, in which one of the reporters did an interview with a member of Anonymous. This video can be found here. I recommend everyone watch this, not only for the educational value, but also because it will probably be the only time you will ever see an international broadcast of a news reporter being filmed sitting in a cheesy dark-suspenseful lit room, wearing big a big goofy headset, talking to another guy wearing a big goofy headset while wearing a mask. (Also I believe the picture to the right of the computer screen is either a photoshoped shark, or a guy wearing a black mask in a shark costume).

Internet Users

Today, it seems like everyone uses the interent. But we question how much and by who. It is broken up into categories of gender, age, income level, and nationality. These users being either connected by a hardwire or wireless for personal or business use. How many do you think there are? How does this impact the world?

Website Presentation

Top Sites

1. Google
2. Facebook
3. Youtube
4. Yahoo
5. Windows Live(live.com)
6. Baidu.com
7. Wikipedia
8. QQ
9. Twitter
10. MSN
11. YAho.jp
12. Taobao.com
13. Google.co.in
14. Sine.com.cn
15. Amazon.com
16. Google.de
17. Google.com.hk
18. Wordpress.com
19. Googel.co.uk

Alexa The Web Company

ESPN # 60

Pornhub # 55

Cracked.com is owned by

Demand Media

• -ehow.com
• -Livestrong.com
• -golflink.com
• -trails.com

Livestrong.com

-Mania.com

..going public 2011

CollegeHumor is owned by

InterActiveCorp

• Ask.com
• Bloglines
• Chemistry.com
• Citysearch.com
• The Daily Beast
• GarageGames
• Match.com
• Shoebuy.com
• Pronto.com
• Reference.com
• Urbanspoon.com
• Vimeo

…and others Revenue 1.6 Billion2009

Last.fm.com is owned by…

CBS Interactive

• CBSnews.com
• News.com
• CBSMoneywatch.com
• TV.com
• Gamespot.com
• Search.com
• NCAA.com
• Maxpreps.com

Revenue 600 million 2009

Ticketmaster who was once owned by InteractiveCorp

Live Nation Entertainement

..Monopoly

Revenue 4 Billion 2009

Expedia who was once Interactivecorp

InteractiveCorp was once USA Networks

Which was once Ticketmaster

• Hotels.com
• Hotwire.com
• Tripadvisor.com
• Seatguru.com

Gawker Media

• Gawker.com
• Gizmodo.com
• Kotaku.com
• Jalopnik.com
• Lifehacker.com
• Deadspin.com

IGN Entertainment

• Gamespy
• Gamestats
• Askmen.com

Myspace is owned by

News Corporation

• IGN Entertainment
• Hulu
• FOX
• New Digital Media
• 15 % Colorado Rockies
• Dow Jones
• WSJ
• New York Post
• Vogue
• Newspapers and Magazines

Skype was bought be ebay in 2005

EBAY

• Paypal.com
• Half.com
• Craigslist (not majority owner)
• Shopping.com
• Stubhub
• StumbleUpon
• SKYPE
• Sold 2009
• Silver Lake Partners

Sungaurd

Sabre Holdings

Travelocity

Google Youtube Android

Facebook

Microsoft

Wikipedia

Non Profit Wikimedia Foundation

You mean Google and Facebook don't love each other?

It may be obvious to some, but giant media corporation aren't always going to be the best of friends. It appears google has been branded with the 'bad roomate' label as the intro to the article suggests. It compares the corporation as college roommates, even mentioning the classic passive aggressive sticky notes. In it, it appears Google insults (delicately of course) some of facebook and their privacy concerns (or lack there of). Its no new issue that facebook has always had a very blurred line when it comes to privacy. And it will be interesting to see if there new web service actually kills gmail, but nobody is saying there going to kill google. However, I always love it when polite politicians, corporations or CEO's are just blunt as hell about issues, and this is as close as these things get.

Apple Microsoft Google Map

Apple Microsoft and Google have been all over the news recently. These three large corporations are being what is told as the future, as they have the power and money for new technology. It seems that everyday I look on the internet there is another story about one of these company's smartphones, search engines, or technology. These company's sue each other, talk about each other, and continue to fight for the most dominant power on the internet. I found this map above when i was searching the companies on google . The article that follows the image is here. The image is think is great layout for the three companies coming together. The one thing that is missing is Facebook. Rather than the big three, I think its the big four, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It would really interesting how Facebook would be tangled into the map. So who's winning? I think someone is always up and down. One thing that these corporations should fear is a technology failure, like the recall on a huge new product line or technology being hacked. If I were to place these four companies in order: What do you think?

Google
Apple
Microsoft
Facebook

Internet Marketing

Internet marketing is the new age phenomena of promotion.It is a simple and effective way of marketing which is being used extensively across the globe.Internet marketing is being widely used because of its interactive nature of marketing over the internet, that is, it provides instant response and also helps in determining the nature of response (good/bad/not interested).

With Internet Marketing coming of age, there are various dimensions added to it that act as a part of the base of marketing over the internet.Internet marketing agencies provide and develop solutions that help businesses get online and use internet as a marketing tool. Internet marketing agencies promote and improve companies that offer innovative and meaningful products or services.If someone wants to grow their sales, reach a wider audience or generate more traffic, internet marketing has become the best option. Today's companies are growing faster than ever due to internet marketing and more and more companies are become better at it.

Below is a link to a company that I had an internship for. They do Internet marketing.

http://denverinternetmarketing.com/

You've Got more Facebook

Facebook is going to launch it's own email/webmail services. Facebook is planned to make this announcement coming up soon in San Francisco where they are holding an event to go over more of the details of this mail service. It is expected that users will be able to access this new addition to their account without signing into Facebook directly. Users will also have a personalized email account option available instead of just using their own name and example is: hockeyfan77@facebook.com. This is going to be interesting as Facebook adds more and more services to it's social networking platform. Will we as American consumers have a social network similar to the ones in China where its a one spot stop for everything similar to our greatest retailing chain Walmart?