Zero hour. The gradual re-branding of The Vadimus Post to UK Progressive the last few months will happen pretty much overnight tonight. The technical name for it is a ‘domain switch’ and what it means is overnight we will simply change, (for the purposes of Google, Yahoo and MSN searches and their counting system), so [...]
UK Progressive Domain Switchover Underway
Posted on 07 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: domain switch, e-newsletter, google, http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk, http://www.vadimuspost.com, MSN, re-branding, The Vadimus Post, UK Progressive, UK Progressive.co.uk, UKProgressive.co.uk, vadimus post, Yahoo!
Google’s Real Strategy
Posted on 02 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: AdSense, AdWords, Apple, attack on Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, away from desktops, better and continually improving product, Bill and Steve’s excellent adventure, Chrome, chutzpah, do no harm, dominate, Earth, encourage developers to create more synchronised produc, Firefox, Froogle, google, Google application turns to gold, Google Checkout, judge ordered, Maps, Microsoft, militant anti-IE or MS ethos, minutiae, mobile devices, money, more web searches happen from iPhones, Mozilla, MS insisted they could not unbundle Internet Explorer f, muscle, open source, Orkut, Real Strategy, running on its own Web browser, Search, shift the ballgame, spring dinosaur merger dance, thumbed their noses at courts everywhere, trumped by Sergei and Eric’s Chrome, US and EU antitrust trials, We are Microsoft fear us, Web platform, Web way, Yahoo!, YouTube
When Microsoft and Yahoo! failed in their spring dinosaur merger dance, who knew Google was snickering in the background knowingly waiting to launch its own attack on the vaunted Microsoft Internet Explorer browser? Remember those long summer days filled with US and EU antitrust trials? Those cases of mind-numbing minutiae where judge after judge ordered [...]
I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is
Posted on 11 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1984, 28.8 dial-up modems, 40-million credit card numbers and passwords, 600 MOD laptops, ADSL, afraid, auto-generated SPAM comments, bank robber, big ad company cookies, BT Broadband, cable, CD’s and data cards, click-through ads, DoubleClick, dozens of other agencies, employees who sell data, Encryption software, everyone wants to own search and advertising business s, FBI, frightening accuracy, google, hackers attack and steal data, hassle of changing e-mail, highest level ever, Home Office, I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is, important security and personal identity stealing data, inside companies, internet, Internet security, large players in this game, meaningless whether I say no or not, missing, obscure ISP, oxy-moron, pingbacks, privacy cost, recognition software "cookies", size and ability to share and mine my viewing behaviour, surfing the web, UK MoD (Ministry of Defence), Web transaction, web-crawling tools, web-traffic, Willie Sutton, worried, Yahoo!
Willie Sutton, uttered that famous line after a long career of bank robberies a century or so ago. He would have loved the Internet.
This topic was first written about in January over Internet click-through ads. I said that unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Now with [...]
Bill Gates, Ruthless Philanthropist
Posted on 06 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $30.7 billion, $38 billion dollar endowment, $800 million every year to global health needs and vacc, 10 million shares from his stockholdings to the foundat, 500 pound gorilla in every room, 90% of all personal computers, Berkshire Hathaway, better systems, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, building and running the best computer business in the, CEO, Dad’s garage, economic, education projects, envied his success, environmental challenges, fight HIV/AIDS, Firefox, foundation management, geeky kid, Geographic Information Systems, GIS, Global Development, Global Health, Gordon Brown, hooked on one thing, humanised, improving educational resources around the country, knocked down a few pegs the machine-like Gates, leadership, library, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Corporation, obama, office productivity software, Only in America, operating systems, opportunities for sustainable growth, Paul Allen, programs, retirement, ruthless capitalist to ruthless philanthropist, ruthless genius, Ruthless Philanthropist, single-minded focus, social, software developer, Steve Ballmer, target funding, target volunteer mobilisation efforts, The Global Development Program, The Global Health Program, the Microsoft machine, The United States Program, Tony Blair, UN World Health Organization, Warren Buffet, world largest software company, world’s richest man, Yahoo!
Mr. Gates has held many titles in his long career. From software developer to world’s richest man to, as some on the opposite side of a negotiating table would call him, ruthless genius… all titles fit him at different stages in his career. His retirement last month from day-to-day operations at Microsoft Corporation, the company [...]
Now What?
Posted on 20 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill Gates, Carl Icahn, google, Jerry Yang, Microsoft, MSN, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo!
(Reprise article)
The fish at the end of the Pixar film “Finding Nemo” bob on the surface of Sydney Harbour in plastic bags unable to break through to the big ocean below them. The executive teams at Microsoft and Yahoo! seem in a similar situation and face much bigger hurdles whether or not they eventually merge.
Carl [...]
Umm, Jerry… a 72% Premium was Enough for Carl
Posted on 17 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Board, Carl Icahn, Jerry Yang, Yahoo!
You have vexed him. Don’t do that.
The letter Carl Icahn sent last week to Yahoo! Board of Directors announcing his plans to launch a proxy fight, should give CEO Jerry Yang reason to stock-up on poison pills. Jerry, you will earn a very good return and I’d get used to the idea that you will soon be sipping pina coladas [...]
Yang’s Bluff Called, Microsoft Blinks
Posted on 05 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $47.5 billion dollars, Allstate, American Express, Carly Fiorina, Caterpillar, disney, Dow Chemical, Fortune 500, hp, IBM, Insurance Leader of the Year, Jerry Yang, Jim Schiro, Kraft Foods, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Price Waterhouse, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PWC, Silicon Valley, Steve Ballmer, Time Warner, Yahoo!
14-years ago Yahoo! started in a Silicon Valley trailer. Saturday night Microsoft proved that yes, theirs was indeed bigger and walked away after saying $47.5 billion dollars(!) was enough money and $52 billion was too much to pay.
Today, analysts are saying Mr. Yang has a few months to convince investors that this was the right [...]
Sir Martin’s Midas Touch Dulling or Media Laziness?
Posted on 05 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: buyout, e-financial news, google, lazy reporting, MSN, Reuters, Sean Farrell, Sir MArtin Sorrell, Taylor Nelson Sofres, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times, Tiscali, TNS, WPP Group, Yahoo!
Which is the real headline?
TNS rejected WPP’s £1 billion pound buyout offer. What’s astounding is if one Googles TNS and WPP, there are 11-story links from: Reuters, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, MSN, E-Financial news, Yahoo! and Tiscali on the first search page.
All of them say the exact same thing regurgitating from the exact [...]
Somebody’s Watching Me and You!
Posted on 22 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1984, Business & Economy, data-mining, Double-click, George Orwell, google, hijack worm, internet, Microsoft, privacy, spyware, technology, web surfing, Yahoo!
I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of

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