Category Archives: Internet

Innovation, Internet, Mobile & Telecom, MyOrbit Blogs, New Media

Gmail adds voice and video chat

Google has introduced Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations right from within Gmail.

Many of us have already been using Gmail’s voicemail feature to send them to email ids (very useful), and this voice and video chat will make it even better.

Checkout these Google blog posts for more details:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-hello-to-gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/talk-face-to-face-right-from-within.html

Contracts & Legal, Internet, MyOrbit Blogs, New Media

Battle Update: Google Youtube vs Viacom

Fresh updates have come from the courtroom on the Legal Battle between Google Youtube vs Viacom.

You will like how Viacom asked for the house-keys of Google Youtube with it’s list of demands, which includes:

  • Youtube User Data and Logging Histories
  • Copies of all current and deleted videos (including private videos!)
  • Source Code of Google Advertising Schema
  • Source Code for Google Search Engine (and Viacom will do what with that :-)

If you keep Internet economy and content privacy aside for a minute, Viacom sure is showing Goolge how to make a living with just a legal team.

So there’s a method to it, perfected over decades: Invest one-time in producing some decent content, and then make a living with lawsuits.

Now the judge has agreed to some demands, and said no to others.

To learn more, here’s a detailed blog post by Larry Dignan of Zdnet.

Internet

When EBay Overtook Amazon -March 2001

Here’s an interesting post from the archives of E-Business history.
May 1, 2001 – as reported by BBC.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1306034.stm

eBay/Amazon graphic

Ebay has won far more new visitors than Amazon. The online auction site eBay has overtaken Amazon.com as the most visited e-commerce site, according to a Nielsen/Net Ratings report. The data shows that eBay’s audience grew by over four million during March to 22.13 million. Continue reading →

Internet, MyOrbit Blogs, People

Amitabh Bachchan Blog -the Power of Blogging -Reiterated

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If you are from India or having something to do with India – you will know one person for sure: Amitabh Bachchan. He’s a legendary actor, who’s been there for decades now, and continues to produce great movies – often with a strong social message.

What’s this got to do with MyOrbit and Online Business? A lot! He has very recently started his own blog, through which he aims to share his views on various things impacting his life and industry, and because he has earned the stature – about the society at large as well.

Here’s the link: Amitabh Bachchan Blog

You can consider Amitabh Bachchan as a company himself (in India, he’s called BigB), and he has just started using his blog as a powerful communication channel with his stakeholders, which considering his profession are: fans worldwide and fellow industry professionals, and of course media. And like true bloggers, he has started answering questions as well, which will ensure the most people become regular visitors.

As we have been advising companies — both early-stage and established — a blog presents a powerful self-controlled media that you can use to share updates of important projects (upcoming films in case of BigB), respond to customer queries (fans in this case), and media reports (where necessary).

And here’s his post from today: Day 4 Blog

Okay, while the post titles are not really descriptive – he has just started using this medium – the content is great – and that’s what really matters because the readers know him already!

But if you are a start-up or if people don’t know you yet, then it will help to write more descriptive titles, because that will then show your blog posts in relevant online search-engines like Google, and bring people to your blog.

If you are serious about business relationships, you must be running a blog. The benefits far outweigh the efforts involved. Because the voice of business leaders reaches those they actually need to communicate with.

So, if you have any questions in setting-up or running your blog, please feel free to ask us. We have helped dozens of professionals and companies already. No, there’s no fee on it. We would be happy to set you up online in the best possible way.

cheers,
Shankar
on behalf of MyOrbit Team

Business Strategy, Internet, Market News, MyOrbit Blogs, New Media, Online Marketing

Google completes DoubleClick acquisition

A lot has been talked about Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, and whether they can show tangible improvements or new services as a result of it. DoubleClick has a strong platform for display advertising, and that’s the main reason Google bought it, so that it can give a good offering for a variety of media advertisements. Yesterday, Eric wrote this note on Google’s blog:

3/11/2008 09:48:00 AM
Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO

I’m pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it’s been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no less excited today about the benefits that the combination of our two companies will bring to the online advertising market.

Because we have been waiting for regulatory approval for our acquisition, we’ve been limited by law in the extent to which we could conduct detailed integration planning to map our way forward. That work will begin in earnest now. Although we don’t have detailed plans to announce today, we will communicate regularly with you about our progress in integrating our two companies.

An immediate task we’ll undertake over the next few weeks is matching and aligning DoubleClick employees with our organizational plan for the business. This will involve determining the right staffing levels for all functions and will ensure that we have the right people assigned to the right responsibilities within Google. We plan to complete this process in the U.S. by early April.

Outside the U.S., the steps we will propose are subject to consultation with employee representatives where applicable, and of course any decisions will be made in accordance with local law. The exact timing of the process outside the U.S. will vary based on the needs and requirements of each region.

As with most mergers, there may be reductions in headcount. We expect these to take place in the U.S. and possibly in other regions as well. We know that DoubleClick is built on the strength of its people. For this reason we’ll strive to minimize the impact of this process on all of our clients and employees.

For more, read Google’s blog post here.