The article below was sent to me by Sandy Kory of Media Venture Partners.
In three years desktops will be irrelevant - Google sales chief http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15446/business/in-three-years-desktops-will-be-irrelevant-google-sales-chief
Here is my reply, my thoughts, and my position:
I think that the Eric Schmidt quote is valid if not perfect, but mobile means portable, not best-possible-interface-experience.
I [...]

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DoublePositive posted a Twitter status update merely seconds ago about LeadsCon.
Now when I perform a LeadsCon search with the hash tag, I see the actual Twitter post:

This is all very interesting.
http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2009/12/03/google-alerts-very-interesting/
SPF

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Back in 2002, Josh Gray invested everything he had to buy Webclients.net, a lead generation firm that had grown to ~$10MM in revenue but was losing money.
As the new CEO Josh, focused like a laser on increasing yield (particular on non-monetized inventory) and grew the sales and profits of the business by orders of magnitude.
In [...]

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I am a personal fan of LeadsCon and this entire blog is as well.  Just ask Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=leadscon&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=blogs.doublepositive.com
LeadsCon 2010 speakers were just announced this week:
http://www.leadscon.com/leadscon-las-vegas-2010/full-conference-program.html
Here’s a partial list of the Rock Star speakers on the list:

Doug Lebda
Dave Wengel
Matt Coffin
Marc Diana
Steve Jillings
Payam Zamani

Please join us for our Hot Transfers workshop @ 4pm on Tuesday the 23rd.
Our presentation [...]

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Lala hosts the most online music.
Apple recently bought Lala.
Google uses Apple’s Lala when you search for a song on Google.
It works fabulously well.  If you haven’t already, try it for your favorite song.
If you don’t have a favorite song, just ask Google for one.
Oh wait…
I just tried that.
My Google search query was “best song”
I did [...]

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Happy New Year Everyone!
I am going to try and do a repeat performance to last-year’s real-time blogging at the stroke of midnight.
I’m using Google again as the clock (EST):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=time
I should concede that Google is certainly cyclical if not bullish on Predictions in general:

No matter.  Personally, I’m always bullish about predictions. But then again, [...]

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Any self-respecting-predicting-blogger always needs to review his past predictions before moving on with the new ones.
Let’s take a look at my Predictions for 2009:
http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2009/01/01/goodbye-2008-review-2008-predictions/
Oops, wait. That was 2008.
Here is 2009:
http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2009/01/01/hello-2009-predictions-for-2009/
Here’s what I predicted.
1. Things Changed
Yup. Nailed that one.
2. People and Businesses Will Try Harder than Ever to Avoid Pain
Yup. Nailed that one.
3. People [...]

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I’ve been a long-time user of Google Alerts.
http://www.google.com/alerts
Like most, the first alert I setup was my own name.
I’m also an active user on Twitter.
Very interesting that for the first time (just moments ago), I received a Google Alert from a Twitter update I just Tweeted moments ago:

I clicked this link:

The Google Alert term [...]

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This is a fantastic interview video. 
Jason Calacanis (who is very smart and successful) interviews Matt Coffin (who is very smart and successful) on TWiST #27:
http://www.blip.tv/file/2852558

Matt Coffin was the first to hear the Calacanis/Mahalo pitch and the first investor in Jason’s most recent startup Mahalo — he also sits on their [...]

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Rumors of a QuinStreet IPO have been swirling around the space on-again/off-again for years.
But wow it is official:
http://secwatch.com/filings/view.jsp?formid=2469864
I will probably circle back and add more color commentary when I have a few moments, but in the meantime, let me scream BRAVO and CONGRATULATIONS to CEO Doug Valenti and the rest of the QuinStreet team.
Just a [...]

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