Author Archive | Ken McCarthy

Tourist in Internet wonderland

I lived in San Francisco from 1990 t0 1998 which spanned the pre-Internet industry days to the heights of dot com mania.

Amazingly, since I moved back east, I’ve only been back twice, both times with a heavy work schedule …

Coincidentally, the System Seminar and Google AdWords launched on the same week back in May of 2002.

At first, few Internet marketers were able to make sense out of what Google was offering.

How times have changed…

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What do these companies have in common?

* eBay
* Google
* Craig’s List
* MySpace
* FlickR

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Originally published: January 8, 2006

William Gibson, the writer who coined the term, “cyberspace” said it:

“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”

I’m a glass “half full” kind of guy, but there’s a shadow on the …

What happens when the worlds of TV and the Internet collide?

I don’t know, but I think we’re about to find out.

Yesterday – the first work day of 2006 – the major business newspapers exploded with feature stories on …

I don’t know exactly how long you’ve been involved in Internet marketing.

But unless you’ve been in the game since at least 1993, you may not be aware of this little known fact…

There have actually been THREE completely different …