Haig Kayserian is an internet business consultant with clients across Australia. His company - KayWeb Holdings - has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Manila. KayWeb provides web design, web marketing and web applications solutions. Haig Kayserian has owned and sold multiple web businesses. He has overseen the launch of over 100 websites.
I often tell me entrepreneur clients that a good web idea is a quicker and easier way to wealth than any other source - even winning the lottery. Let's take YouTube as a case in point.
The video upload and sharing website has 1 billion views of its videos EVERY SINGLE DAY, and it is only 5 years old!
For those living in another world, Apple and Steve Jobs launched their new product - the iPad.
The Apple iPad has been described as an oversized version of the iPhone, while Apple feels it brings together the best of a laptop and a smartphone, bridging what it says was a gap between the two prominent products for people on the go.
My most recent blog, titled 'Google must tread carefully as Microsoft and Murdoch start talks', covered an interesting development by shrewd media mogul Rupert Murdoch in the battle for 'free news to the web'.
Murdoch, who calls Google's loose publishing of news 'stealing', met with search market share-aspirants Microsoft in what was seen as a threat to Google that if it doesn't stop providing free content, News Limited will block Google in favour of Microsoft and its search engine, Bing.
Google's program 'First Click Free' was designed a while back for publishers of paid content (e.g. Wall Street Journal owned by Murdoch) to show one page for free. Any subsequent clicks should lead to a need for users to 'subscribe' to the publisher's website.
This program did have a loophole, where the free version of this content was usually searchable and viewable via Google News.
Google now says: "Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free. Now, we've updated the program so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing."
This concession, while small, could win some fans among publishers.
Please click here for a Reuters video covering this topic.
Rupert Murdoch has made his billions by being a shrewd operator. I thought shrewdness was replaced with insanity when he began talking about 'taking on Google' for stealing content from his newspapers, and stating that he will charge for online content.
He has started talks with Microsoft about his war with Google. Microsoft has forever been trying to take search engine market share from Google, and has made a little headway with the release of its improved search engine 'Bing'.
While it has not been said what Murdoch and Microsoft are talking about, if they cut some sort of deal where Murdoch's newspapers will only be searchable via Bing, that would be an interesting blow for Google.
Interesting because I would like to see how Google will react.
He seems a bit petulant about the fact that he lacks a certain tool - in this case the talent of 'innovation' - and instead of employing or embracing such tools, he seems intent to keep selling his old, archaic tool in 'newspapers'.
He feels newspapers are sooooo valuable, that people will pay to view them online. Does Murdoch realise how 'news'ed up one can be on the web without what is offered by his empire? Does he realise how divided online news market share is?
Anyway, newspapers that choose to charge for exclusive feature content have my support - monetise what you can.
But newspapers who want to charge for news? They have no support and I predict the beginning of their end!
Marsfield-raised Sidney Minassian - a person I know well - was a key voice behind this week's highly successful launch of Liaise - a project management software that brings all necessary PM into your Email.
Minassian is the co-founder of this software and CEO of Liaise, who was on Thursday (AEST) awarded the DEMO 09 Enterprise Award of US$500,000 for this useful innovation.
Available as a Microsoft Outlook plug-in only at the moment, Liaise allows you to automatically generate and assign tasks, complete with deadlines and action items, from your Email.
See video demo below for a more in-depth description:
Further, below is an interview with Sidney Minassian:
Yes Joel. Very true that it is interesting. I always wonder if social media website creators ever...
Haig, very interesting about Pepsi. Wow!
...I definitely contribute to this; using social media enough for 4 normal people!
...one of the dumbest ever presentations i have ever seen.
...don't like it.
...Very interesting development ctually. Loic Le Meur, founder and CEO of Seesmic (social media apps...
Hi Grey, interesting point. Let's not forget that Commerce Search minimum spend is US$50K pe...