Friday, January 06, 2006

Skype (Phoning For Free) Downloads Surpass A Quarter Billion

Skype, the free phone company, recently surpassed a quarter of a billion free downloads of their calling software. As recently as October of 2005, 170,000 people per day were accessing the download.

Skype is legal and it is free. Skype uses VoIP technology to place calls over the Internet. To use Skype for free you need the software and a computer, and the person you are calling needs the software and a computer, too. The easiest way to converse is to use a headset connected to the computers at each end of the call.

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Ask and Receive: Fox to Sell Shows Early

Well, at least two shows anyway, and ones I’ve never watched...but since it was only a few days ago I wished a network would start selling shows before being aired, I’ve got to be excited right? 

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Guy Kawasaki is Blogging

Guy Kawasaki, best known for being an Apple Evangelist and his start up for startups companyGarage, has joined the rest of the world and started a blog. I’ve always seen Guy as an inspiration and thought leader so I’m happy to know I can add him to my daily reading. How’s that for a short post?

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Paid Search To Grow 41% In 2006

Here’s more statistics that emphasize online marketing has hit the tipping point. According to a ClickZ story, paid search is expected to grow 41 percent in 2006. This should heat up what is already a hot marketing sector. The story projects the annual paid search growth rate at 37 percent per year through 2010. Based on the Rule of 72, that mean it will more than double every two years!

It appears Google will benefit most from this searing growth. They already have the lion’s share of the search market with Yahoo and MSN running a distant second and third respectively.

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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

ABC Adds More Shows to iTunes

Disney/ABC were the first to offer television shows via iTunes on the day the video iPod was announced. NBC followed shortly after but raised the bar by adding more content and across more of its properties than ABC offered. Now Disney is bringing in some of its big guns like ESPN and ABC News to iTunes, which I think is great for Apple.

ABC News will be the first free content available and will include ads. It would be nice if this leads to the ABC World News being available every day immediately after airing. Segments from Good Morning America and World News will be the initial free news available, I assume they’ll add more if those get good traffic.

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