Real or Fake? Kobe Bryant jumps over Aston Martin!!!
April 12, 2008 at 2:09 am | Posted in gizmoojo | Leave a commentWith his Nike Hyperdunks on foot, Kobe does the unthinkable…I can’t tell if its real or not! SCARY.
Simplebucket: Simple, Ad-Free Image Hosting
September 15, 2007 at 9:40 pm | Posted in gizmoojo | Leave a commentSimplebucket was made entirely using Ruby on Rails–apparently as part of a 48-hour challenge. It’s remarkably well polished for being put together so quickly, and offers a number of features that make it more attractive than even some paid services or other image-hosting sites that plaster your photos with banners and text-ads.
GoogleTV is really coming soon!
June 27, 2007 at 6:08 pm | Posted in google tv | 2 CommentsA while back, there were rumors and videos (that was put to rest as an elaborate hoax) signaling that Google is possibly working on a “TV” type product. Well, it appears that they are indeed getting their prep work and staffing up on TV ad sales and account managers for a TV type product. Here’s some really interesting positions that really shows that Google is indeed working on such a product and it’s even called “Google TV” in some of the job listings.
TV Engineering Project Manager – Mountain View
This position is based in Mountain View, CA.
Television remains the single most important source of information and entertainment for billions of people around the world. Google is looking for a talented Project Manager to be the driving force in managing our cross-functional launch team and stay on task and target. In this role, you will work with Engineering, Product Management, QA, Partner Services, and Business Development to ensure a smooth and seamless release of software products to the market. You will also be responsible for special projects within the Engineering area, driving projects to completion and helping to document decisions and progress.
Senior Account Executive, Google TV – Santa Monica
The role: Senior Account Executive, Google TV – Santa MonicaThe primary responsibility of the Senior Account Executive is to drive revenue by selling Google TV solutions to top-tier advertisers. By evangelizing Google TV to clients and the agencies that serve them, you’ll help to shape a next-generation advertising platform
Account Manager, Google TV – New York
This position is based in New York, NY.
The area: Advertising Sales, Google TV
Google organizes and changes around our users and customers. Our sales team embodies that pursuit: We’re devoted to finding relevant solutions that meet our clients’ changing advertising needs. In that regard, Sales does more than simply make money for our company. Our team strives to identify clients’ business challenges, collaboratively shape solutions that drive their strategic initiatives, and educate them in the ways our products can enhance their online and/or offline presence. In addition to being personable, analytical, proactive and creative, we’re passionate about how Google technology enables the world’s biggest advertisers to enjoy immediate and accountable communication with the consumer. The Google TV group that operates within Sales represents a relatively new initiative for Google, so the department and every job in it will continue to evolve and define itself.
The role: Account Manager, Television – New York
Taking your strong understanding of and interest in television and the Internet, you’ll manage relationships and drive revenue growth with top-tier TV advertisers. This will require you to establish client and agency relationships, manage day-to-day operations and serve as a consultant and evangelist on the next-generation advertising platform. You’ll use your analytical skills to develop and close new business, help to create strategies designed to grow existing business, and support your team with research, market analysis and other collateral. When we initiate new product campaigns, you’ll explain how they work and help to implement them for your clients. You bring demonstrated client-service skills, and you’re eager to join a new and growing Google Sales group. Above all, you’ll be responsible for hitting your revenue targets.
Here’s a google search of all jobs with “google tv”
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/search.py?prior=googletv&query=google+tv
Digg running out of ADs buyer or Google ADs running whack?
February 28, 2007 at 11:00 pm | Posted in adwords, digg | Leave a commentHave you noticed that advertisements that running of Digg is of little variations? I keep seeing the same ADs over and over again. But this time, it got worse. The ADs running on Digg is for Diggnation? ??? If Digg is running out of advertising buyers because Digg visitors do not click on ADs (it’s an typical trait of a Digg user.) and buyers are not getting the effectiveness out of the AD then yes, Digg could possibly be running low on advertising buyers and revenue. So if they are running low on advertisement buyers, are they just back-filling with advertisment of Diggnation?
In another case, I think Google’s adwords might have gone whacky and place Diggnation adwords ads that Kevin bought and place them on Digg. In anyway it all sounds bad to me.
Here’s one of Digg’s main page
Here’s one with one of the top stories – notice all advertising slots are filled with Diggnation?????
Want a piece of Google/Youtube? Here’s how.
November 4, 2006 at 12:15 am | Posted in Acquisitions, google, youtube | 1 CommentI always thought that Google’s acquisition of Youtube was not really well thought out by the hands in charge. One big thing that they had neglected is the potential amount of lawsuits that they see coming. I believe they underestimated this fact this alot. Over at Mashable, Pete posted that “Google talks in frantic mode and paying huge amount of money to Media company for Youtube“. That is just the beginning of this nightmare for Google.
Then we have others who are hungry and just wants a piece of the pie for themselves. The German soccer team Bayern Munich threatened to sue over YouTube’s use of fan footage, and today the press wires are reporting that the English Premier League is also unhappy. And then there is Utube, the tubing company that operates a corporate site at utube.com sueing Google for expenses incur because of the amount of traffic they got from visitors who were looking for youtube.com but ended up at utube.com.
So as I have pointed out, this is only the beginning. And here’s why, if ever any of these lawsuits would go in favor against Google, look for others to immediately jump onto the bandwagon. I bet you that there are probably hundreds of other companies just lurking in the background and if ever Google lose a single one of the cases against them. We’ll see more lawsuits coming their way.
So say now, I put some video of gadget and gizmos reviews on Gizmoojo.com and if someone (or even worse, I had someone) post videos of these reviews onto Youtube. That in theory is an infringement of my copyrights. So my claim against Google/Youtube would easily be as valid as the rest since Youtube hosted my video and thus causing the loss of advertising revenue/traffic that Gizmoojo could “potentially be losing”. So, yes, Google made a bad decision for acquiring Youtube, and they’re in for a hell of a ride.
Gizmoojo is CSSRebooted and many great things to come.
November 1, 2006 at 12:49 pm | Posted in cssreboot, gizmoojo, Sponsorship, Web 2.0, web2.0 | 1 Comment
If you ‘ve been to the site, you should have noticed that we had a major makeover for Gizmoojo! And yes, we love our new design and we can’t wait to relaunch Gizmoojo with some really cool stuff that I ‘ve been thinking about. Nevertheless, the current version of Gizmoojo has some bug fixes but overall, there are no new features that went in.
We would like to thank our sponsors – Railsplayground for provding the best ever Rails hosting for our users and also Dave Zentgraf from Kunststube for the redesign of Gizmoojo!
To allow us to keep you informed of our upcoming relaunch, I would encourage you to create a new user account and I promise, we will relaunch with some really cool features to come!
Gizmoojo on Diggnation
October 20, 2006 at 4:58 am | Posted in digg, diggnation, gizmoojo | Leave a commentIf you haven’t seen the latest episode of Diggnation, the video podcast of Digg‘s founder, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht from Ctrl-Alt-Chicken video cast, YOU NEED TO. Well, you might ask why? And I telling why now. Gizmoojo was mentioned on the video cast as the submitter of the biggest news of the week on Digg. With 6619 diggs, Its confirmed. Google buys youtube for $1.6 billion, this was the first topic that Kevin and Alex talked about. It’s so cool to hear Alex try to pronounce “Gizmoojo”. Really cool….!
The rumored Google Rs
October 5, 2006 at 8:03 pm | Posted in gizmoojo, google rs, web .0, Web 2.0, web2.0 | 1 CommentThis morning, some mysterious Google screenshots – including what appears to be a mock-up for a Google Web Office product, called Google RS were posted on Google groups for Google reader. The screenshots were at this location, but have since been taken down.
So I managed to save them just before they were taken down. So from these screenshots, Google Rs actually looked very cool. If it was materialized, we can see some stir-ups to the web 2.0 startups over might just be overshadow by Google. Take Kiko for example. Google integration of calender into Gmail practically took their growth out. So if Google Rs is really released, we should see quite a few smaller web 2.0 startups dropping into the dead bucket. (Digg it)
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