Ken McCarthy - Internet, marketing, and beyond

Million dollar mistakes

I read a lot and I like to read about all different kinds of subjects.

Along the way, I’ve discovered that no matter what I read, I always find something I can apply not only to business in general, but …

Tracking the Internet video world – which practically no one was tracking just a year ago – has become a full time business for some.

Here are some of the more interesting numbers people have dug up recently…

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I have a lot of friends who are filmmakers. I even worked briefly in that industry myself. Who knows, I might even get back into it.

I wrote this piece specifically for a magazine for documentary filmmakers, but I think …

I can tell you from first hand experience that NO ONE in the spring of 1994 had any idea how to use the web to advertise.

I know that because at the time I was in regular communication with the …

I love the contrast between the media created fantasy of business and the cold, hard reality of what’s actually going on…

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Google continues to add elements to Google Video that mirror YouTube’s video sharing service.

New addition: Now Google Video lets you see how many times a particular video has been viewed, both cummulatively and yesterday.

This is big stuff because …