Awakened Voice

Mark Cuban is serving up an an interesting post that purports to give us an inside look on the Google/YouTube deal.
[tags]Social Media, Video, Google, YouTube, Mark Cuban[/tags]
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Speaking of acquisitions in the social media space, I got an email this morning announcing that Google had purchased hosted wiki service JotSpot. Is there no end to the acquisitions that Google can (and will) make? Probably not given their market capitalization.
According to the email, “Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and [...]

The Associated Press is reporting the Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
I almost can’t believe this because it seems like YouTube is very vulnerable to lawsuits from the many copyright holders who are being infringed upon as a result of videos hosted on YouTube.
The linked story contains the following quote: “We are [...]

Stats are a critical part of the Social Media strategy of any business. Two companies that have helped blogger and podcasters keep track of their stats are FeedBurner and BlogBeat.
Today, the Feedburner blog announces that they have acquired BlogBeat. BlogBeat was a pay service and now their stats will be incorporated into FeedBurner’s Standard Stats [...]

In my recent analysis of Microsoft’s situation with social media, I failed to mention a key development that took place last week. Microsoft acquired Onfolio. This is definitely a strong move into RSS and improved desktop organization. I’ve been an Onfolio user for quite a while and I’m very happy with it’s data collection and [...]

SixApart, the folks who created TypePad and Movable Type have acquired Splashblog, a mobile photo blogging tool, according to Tech Crunch.
With the enhanced connectivity features seen on more recent mobile phones, ease of integration with blogs will surely be a differentiator between commercial blogging services.
[tags]Blogging, Mobile[/tags]
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Earlier I mentioned that only so many companies can count on acquisition as a strategy for their company. Fair enough, but who’s buying? We know that Google is cash heavy and has a voracious appetite for acquisitions. Yahoo is a buyer but they seem to be taking more measured steps.
The 900 pound gorilla that most [...]

Speaking of acquisitions. NewsGator has acquired SmartFeed. NewsGator is an RSS aggregation firm that features a variety of software. SmartFeed is a podcatching application for the Windows Mobile platform.
Tags: Podcasting, RSS
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Just when I start writing about exit strategies, Google up and acquires SketchUp. SketchUp is software that makes it very simple to create 3D designs.
Tags: Google
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