Google Suggest is getting ready to be integrated into the main Google search over the next week or so. It’s been tested in Google Labs over the last few years and will finally make it’s debut on the main stage (Google’s home page). This will put it in front of millions of new users and will have an impact in the way traffic is shaped across the web. But how?
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My last post talked about Godaddy and it’s recent .me registration fiasco. Now let’s take a closer look at the question on many people’s minds: what will .me domains be worth in the future?
I think .me domains are highly speculative.
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Are you starting your very own web 2.0 website? Has your thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters taken the day off. Are you too drunk to come up with your very own random string of vowels and phonetic spellings?
Well, my friend, you’re in luck.
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I’m coining a new term today in response to what I keep seeing all over the place recently: The Lebron James Fallacy.
What is the Lebron James Fallacy?
It’s when a 16 year old kid tells you that he doesn’t need to study because he’s going to the NBA where he’ll make millions. It’s when a startup values itself at 10 million dollars because Google acquired the company next door for 100 million. It’s when the founder of Hotmail uses “ice cream glove math” (see about 3 minutes in) to overvalue his startup even before entering the market.
Recently a lot of companies have been trying to make themselves into THE Platform of choice. Facebook’s Apps API, Google’s one-up OpenSocial, Netvibes universal widgets, etc. Every company wants to be the platform and control as much attention as possible. I’ve heard some people say “Google is the Internet.”
