Receive, Hunt, Do
The history of the Web is a transition between these phases:
Back in the mid-1990s, most people were happy to “receive” information on the Web. Content (meaning Web sites) was king, and so AOL, EarthLink (ELNK), and marketers responded by trying to create “sticky” Web portals where people would spend long stretches, returning often. [...]

Yes, it is that Nostradamus time of the year when experts, pundits and amateurs enjoy looking into a crystal ball and venturing what the next year will bring to New Media.
It’s fun and it’s silly, so following from my somewhat successful forecast of 2007 ( here and here), these are some initial thoughts on what [...]

DMNews has an interesting analysis:
Searches conducted on AOL were most likely to lead to online consumer purchases in January, according to a new WebSideStory index. This may reflect a difference in the demographics of people visiting various search engines.
WebSideStory’s index compares the median conversion rates of four major search engines at business-to-consumer e-commerce sites. AOL [...]

In a somewhat surprising move, Steve Case reverses his previous key role in the Time Warner - AOL merger fiasco in this Washington Post article:
Although I played a key role in bringing AOL and Time Warner together six years ago, it’s now my view that it would be best to “undo” the merger by splitting [...]

Infectious Greed: The Deal that Launched a Thousand Blog Networks links to an article that has estimated the dollar amount per link that AOL has paid in the Weblogs Inc. acquisition.
I have a suggestion to make… please link to my site and we will share the $564.64 valuation increase that your link will generate [...]

Chris Sacca, a Principal for Business Development at Google, has a great post on how to pitch to his company here: ‘What is left?’: Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, “My word, this inbox is a mess”).
In a nutshell: keep your pitch short, relevant, differentiated… and stick to e-mail (telephones and [...]