Barry Diller: Ask.com Has No Value Inside Of IAC

Many of us may have forgotten that Ask.com is a search engine just like Google and Bing. It seems that IAC's Barry Diller, who owns Ask.com, seems to have no memory of Ask's value as well. Diller sat down with Michael Arrington today at TechCrunch Disrupt, and spoke candidly about the future of Ask.com. Says Diller, "I don't think Ask.com is going to gain search share; everyone copied us." He added that Ask is not competitive with Google at all. When an audience member asked whether Ask would be more valuable outside of IAC rather than within the network; Diller quipped: Ask has no value inside of IAC, so why would it add value as a standalone site? He also said that IAC hasn't been able to grown Ask the way he thought the company would be able to.

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Music Video Startup Vevo Is Seeing Tens Of Million In Revenue

Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about how Vevo, like a Hulu for music launched in December 2009, is now the third largest source for video on the web. Vevo, whose core philosophy is that the Internet is about choice, now receives 49 million unique video viewers a month, with 500 million views in the US and 1.4 billion around the world.

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The 5 Deadly Sins of Voice Mail

The 5 Deadly Sins of Voice Mail

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The 5 Deadly Sins of Voice MailThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing As a marketing or even simple communication tool voice mail is pretty dead. The telephone, a form of communication that has received only minor tweaks in the last 100 years, just doesn’t provide much to like these days. My perfect telephone would have [...]

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Two Amazing Startups You Should Check Out: Cardmobili And RouletteCricket

I was in Amsterdam late last week to sit on the jury for Vodafone's Mobile Clicks startup competition, and I saw four genuinely great fledgling companies strut their stuff. In the end, plastic card-killing startup Cardmobili came out victorious - they won both the ?100,000 1st place prize and the public voting award - more on them below. Runner-up and winner of ?50,000 was the UK's RouletteCricket, a so-called ?2nd screen gaming? service provider that gives fans a new way to engage with cricket games.

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Geomium, A Location-based Social Network Powered By Data From Yelp, Qype And Eventful

Geomium, a new location-based social network, gets its official launch today, in London first but with other UK cites and then Europe and the U.S. to follow. As with other such services, it lets users connect with friends, but it also emphasizes meeting new people and throws in venue data such as bars, restaurants, etc., as well as local deals and events -- all with a focus on real time. If anything the service is in danger of overwhelming the user while also coming across as another me-too offering: How is Geomium different to the likes of Facebook Places, Foursquare, Rummble, Yelp etc.? But actually, that's why it might just work.

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Creating Engagement with QR Codes

Creating Engagement with QR Codes

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Creating Engagement with QR CodesThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing QR codes may sound like something you might come across in an Ian Fleming novel or find discussed at the latest tech trend conference, but over the last few years they’ve slipped into the mainstream advertising and marketing worlds in ways that make them a [...]

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Backing Up Your WordPress Blog

Backing Up Your WordPress Blog

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Backing Up Your WordPress BlogThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing As you certainly have learned from any time spent reading this blog, I’m a big fan of the WordPress blogging software. There are lot of plugins that I would call standard for a business blog, but one aspect that doesn’t get enough coverage in my [...]

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