On the same day as Google’s I/O began with the announcement of a music service in the cloud, Microsoft bought Skype. Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for one of the most ubiquitous messaging services outside of MSN and Facebook messaging. It probably wasn’t an accident that Microsoft announced their biggest acquisition since 2007 on the same day as Google’s biggest event for the year. Continue reading →

At long last, there is now something concrete on what the Yahoo!/Bing search deal means for Australia. Just today Yahoo! sent an email outlining the change from Yahoo!7 to Bing in Australia. According to the email, the changes to Yahoo!7’s … Continue reading →

This week ReadWriteWeb announced that Windows Live Messenger is the second most popular app on Facebook. With over 9 million users, Windows Live Messenger is still behind Farmville’s 16 million. Microsoft’s numbers for conversations between Facebook and Windows Live Messenger … Continue reading →

Brandflation n Artificially inflating the value of traffic and impressions from brand-focused campaigns by removing direct response metrics from campaign management or believing it is something it is not A word I made up In the late 1990s the Internet … Continue reading →

Is it possible to out-think your competition in Search Engine Marketing (SEM)? Are there undervalued queries and traffic sources in Google Adwords, Microsoft AdCenter and Yahoo! Search Marketing (for those outside USA and the UK)? As SEM becomes more popular … Continue reading →

EVE Online (or Spreadsheets in Space as it is also known) is a MMORPG with strong PVP gameplay. There are a large number of other ways to play EVE Online, from the market through to PVE, but it is PVP … Continue reading →