Hear me! For I have been to the mountaintop
Tuesday night's SES mixer in San Jose was highly anticipated by most attendees. It was, after all, the Google Dance -being held at the Googleplex no less. At roughly 6:30, the tour busses started to line up outside the main convention center to begin shuttling attendees to the land of the giant. Needless to say, I think everyone went.
Hear me! For I have been to the mountaintop
Tuesday night's SES mixer in San Jose was highly anticipated by most attendees. It was, after all, the Google Dance -being held at the Googleplex no less. At roughly 6:30, the tour busses started to line up outside the main convention center to begin shuttling attendees to the land of the giant. Needless to say, I think everyone went.
Google and Overture representation in this forum drew a substantial first day crowd, at the Search Engine Strategies Conference. These guys were there to discuss some of their new programs and current developments.
Are you properly managing your pipeline? Are you jumping the gun and losing valuable clients? What does search mean to B2B marketing? These are the types of questions asked in answered in Tuesday's SES Business to Business Forum.
The Search Engine Strategies conference, in San Jose, is full of exuberant professionals and entrepreneurs eager and excited to learn more about the search industry. Amid the din of optimism and over-caffeinated exuberance there are a few words being spoken that are, shall we say, somewhat less than ebullient. It's probably no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to tech stocks of late that most of the downer talk here has to do with investors.
One thing you can count on at an SES conference is a solid staple of presenters. Safa Rashchty, managing director of Piper Jaffray certainly qualifies. Mr. Rashchty holds a master's from Boston University, a bachelor' degree in engineering from Purdue, and is a regular on CNBC and CNNfn. In other words, he knows what he's talking about.
"If Google manages to pull off a well received IPO, how do you measure a well received IPO"? That's a question posed by CBS Marketwatch lead reporter Bambi Francisco. Google has got to be Google in many ways by being the exception to the rule. As such, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that they follow suite with their IPO. Curiosities aside, are investors excited?
Bambi Fransico is the lead reporter for CBS Marketwatch on the internet and new technologies. In a session at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose focusing on the current climate for SEM company valuations, she offered some valuable insights.
RealNetwork's plan to distribute iPod compatible tunes via its online music store has been sharply criticized by Apple. The new Harmony software from RealNetwoks is designed to allow users of their Rhapsody online music service to play music on the iPod and other competing devices.
An ICANN arbitration panel has rejected Google's claim that froogles.com was "confusingly similar" in name to Google.