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Google's advertising model has been extremely successful, says CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Larry Page. Google has invested in technology to better target ads - and they've found that targeting ads well is in fact comparable to targeting search results.
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Polese explains the concept of the "long tail".
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If you love something, set it free and it will come back to you, says the old adage. But as Sue Decker, President of Yahoo! explains, this sentiment also applies to advertising-driven online real estate. The front page of the popular search engine has always been a popular destination - and a great source of revenue for the company. But Decker explains why Yahoo! has chosen to eschew solid revenue in exchange for allowing that space to be ...more
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Polese talks about how software has transitioned from a product that generates revenue to a service. She sees the software industry slowly shifting towards this idea.
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Scott shares his views on net neutrality, a topic of hot debate in the Internet space. He defines net neutrality and explains its impact.
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Google will always be a search engine, despite any additional directions the company may take, because it is a critical part of the mission the founders Page and Brin have defined. Also, says the company, the search engine is far from perfect and still requires many developments before it is complete.
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Winblad talks about how the market is driven by consumers who want connectivity across devices, customizable products, and fair prices. Communication and collaboration are key to delivering the product the consumers want, she notes. The pricing structure cannot just be made up -- a company must demonstrate they can deliver undeniable short-term return on investment to the customer in order to justify the price.
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Peter Fenton, general partner at Benchmark Capital, discusses what the future may look like with open source software, and how competitors view open source software companies.
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Winblad explains that companies use both a .net and a Java standard and neither has taken over. Most likely, neither will. Customers like to have a blend of technologies and programmers like to be looking at the new latest thing so there is currently no force to change to a single standard.
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In the early days of the company, the market was on fire, and global outreach was key. At the turn of the millennium, the company gained strength and began to monetize their web presence. And since 2006, the company has been striving to reorganize and funnel its content around an integrated audience. President of the company Sue Decker unveils Yahoo!'s latest evolution of strategy, organization, and process, and explains how the company's ...more
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Evan Williams, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger, talks about podcasting and how it started. He believes that due to the "webification" of audio, podcasting has become exciting and popular.
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Polese discusses why open source is popular amongst venture capitalists.
