What is Net Neutrality?
Net neutrality is a debate over the future direction of the Internet. Net competition advocates continuing a free market Internet and opposes a "socialized-Internet." Net neutrality advocates activist regulation of broadband prices, terms, and conditions.
What 3Q earnings tell us about Google-Yahoo Antitrust Review; GOOG-YHOO earn ~100% of profits
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:03:43 -0400With the 3Q08 earnings releases by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the last few days, DOJ antitrust investigators of the Google-Yahoo partnership now get their first fresh look at the most recent revenue and profit market shares for this market.
FTC could protect privacy by enforcing fair representation laws & conflict disclosures
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:29:05 -0400Saul Hansell's New York Times blog post on "The FTC Bully Pulpit on Privacy" discussing the FTC privacy chief's views on privacy, did a public service in flagging an unnecessary and problematic gap in the Federal Trade Commission's protection of Americans' privacy.
More on Google as biggest threat to people's privacy
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:26:11 -0400Following up on my House testimony on Internet privacy and how Google is by far the biggest threat to people's privacy, let me share some tid bits.
First, John Naughton of the Observer in the UK did a good piece: "Google is watching you. Ready for your close up?"
Why Google is the Biggest Threat to Americans' Privacy; The Detailed Case from my House Testimony
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:26:50 -0400In my testimony Thursday on Internet privacy before Chairman Markey's House Internet Subcommittee, I documented for Congress the detailed case of how Google, which is subject to no Federal privacy laws, is the single biggest threat to Americans' privacy today.
- The evidence assembled here shows how Google's mission and culture are hostile to privacy, how Google's unprecedented scale and scope enable a breath-taking collection of intimate "blackmail-able" information, and how Google's track record is not worthy of trust.
From my testimony:
Case Study: How Google Systematically Threatens Americans’ Privacy:
Takeaways from Google's earnings call
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:33:29 -0400Growth: 39% YoY revenue growth on a ~$20b base, in a slowing global economy is impressive. Hats off to Google. Lots of network effects at work as Google sites revenue grew 42% YoY.
Tone: I did note the slightest whif of humility this quarter that external factors had some effect on Google's business, in stark contrast to last quarter's more bold statement that Google saw no effect of the external market or economy on Google's business.
DoubleClick: As I suspected, CEO Schmidt said in an answer to a question, that Doubleclick was going well but that he would not break out any information -- in Google's well-established sorry-Charlie-style... no insight or guidance for you... The only thing interesting that was said about DoubleClick was indirect, in that Sergey Brin said that the big problem in display is that it is highly-fragmented." Couple that with CEO Schmidt indicating that Google was only months away fom offering a one-stop advertising solution, one can surmise that Doubleclick will indeed prove to be a material growth kicker to help Google fight off some of the natural drag of the law of large numbers.
