Gerrit Eicker

"They are missing since the early morning (GMT+1). - Hopefully this is a Twitter app bug and not an intentional deactivation." - Gerrit Eicker

"They are missing since the early morning (GMT+1). - Hopefully this is a Twitter app bug and not an intentional deactivation." - Gerrit Eicker

"NYT: "The changes also restrict the Google catalog to books published in the United States, Britain, Australia or Canada. That move is intended to resolve objections from the French and German governments, which complained that the settlement did not abide by copyright law in those countries. - The revised settlement could make it easier for other companies to compete with Google in offering their own digitized versions of older library books because it drops a provision that was widely interpreted as ensuring that no other company could get a better deal with authors and publishers than the one Google had struck."SEL: "As expected, a revised Google Book Settlement has been filed today — about as late as possible. The agreement narrows the scope to the US, UK, Canada and Australia. It alters how revenue generated by “unclaimed works” will be handled. It formally grants retailers who license out-of-print books covered by the settlement - including Google competitors - a 37% share of..." - Gerrit Eicker

"Lowe: "There’s been a bit of an ongoing debate about whether or not Kiva is what it seems. ... A Kiva lender and borrower are connected because: The lender ties the fate of hir money to the borrower’s ability to repay. In other words, if Wayan Puspa in Bali gets a bad harvest, Bob Smith in Idaho won’t get his $25 back. This is why Bob gets updates on Wayan’s business - because Bob has effectively invested his money in Wayan’s business. ... At the end of the day, you’re still investing your money in someone else’s livelihood. I think of it like swiping my credit card to pay for something. I’m still liable to pay for it, even though the details are complex and no money will leave my account for another 30 days. Kiva has channeled $100m in funds to microentrepreneurs in only 4 years. There’s no way that would be possible without working with their MFI field partners, and without operational abstractions that strike a difficult balance between creating a personalized user experience and..." - Gerrit Eicker

"TC: "Now, just at the point that those mobile ads are taking off, Google is getting into the game. With AdMob, it is not buying gee-whiz technology or a popular consumer destination. It is very clearly buying a future source of revenues. And Google is in a unique position to accelerate AdMob's revenue growth by plugging it into its existing AdWords and DoubleClick systems and exposing it to the hundreds of thousands of advertisers who already use Google and might like to add mobile display ads to their campaigns. - AdMob's current revenue run rate of $100 million is impressive, but Google's purchase price tells us it thinks the opportunity for mobile display ads is in the billions of dollars, at the very least."" - Gerrit Eicker

"Telegraph: "A spokesman for the search giant said: 'Google News and web search are a tremendous source of promotion for news organisations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute. - Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't.'"Hitwise: "Rupert Murdoch made an interesting statement in a Sky News interview today, when asked about news content available through search engines such as Google, Murdoch says he would consider blocking Google from indexing News Corp.'s news websites such as the Wall Street Journal. Of course it would naturally follow that I would immediately chart the amount of traffic that Google drives to Murdoch's flagship news site. ... In fact, on a weekly basis Google and Google news are the top traffic providers for WSJ.com account for over 25% of WSJ.com's traffic. Even more telling. According to..." - Gerrit Eicker

"LinkedIn: "Today we’re announcing a partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter – and new features that we think are going to make both Twitter and LinkedIn more powerful for you. These new features will be rolling out gradually over the next couple of days. - The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool."NYT: "Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s chief executive, said that he wants LinkedIn to be the hub for all professional conversation. Integrating tweets into LinkedIn will help them find a home where they will become part of someone’s professional identity, and conversations will develop around them, he said. - What does the partnership mean for Twitter? It will have broader reach, particularly in the professional sphere, which is important because..." - Gerrit Eicker

"Flannery: "As I originally posted a month ago, I believe that 1) pre-disbursal, our policy to allow MFIs to disburse loans to entrepreneurs before they are fully funded on the site, is necessary for the success of this model, and 2) that we can do better at educating our users about how and why this is the case. ... Online philanthropy is already much more real-time, connected, transparent and data-rich than philanthropy 10 years ago, but there's still a long way to go. At Kiva, you see an entrepreneur profile for every dollar raised on the site. In addition, you see repayment data and can get your money back. As a small nonprofit, we continually seek to increase the quantity and quality of this data. ... We will continue to strengthen the feedback loop between our users and our staff so that we can address confusion and criticism, and continue to focus on our mission to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty."" - Gerrit Eicker

"Google: "On November 9, 2009 Google announced an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million. This acquisition will enhance Google's existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising, while also giving advertisers and publishers more choice in this growing new area."Google: "Despite the tremendous growth in mobile usage and the substantial investment by many businesses in the space, the mobile web is still in its early stages. We believe that great mobile advertising products can encourage even more growth in the mobile ecosystem. That's what has us excited about this deal. - For publishers of mobile websites and applications, this deal will mean better products and tools and more effective monetization of their content — allowing them to focus more on their users and less on how to generate revenue. - For advertisers who want to reach users when they are engaged with mobile content, this deal will bring better, more relevant ads and..." - Gerrit Eicker