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Павел Рогожин:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/yahoo-2010-search-event/

We’re here at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, CA headquarters for an event the company is holding called “SearchSpeak” to talk about, you guessed it: their search product.

Speaking here are:

• Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President of Search Products, Yahoo!
• Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Labs and Yahoo! Search Strategy
• Larry Cornett, Vice President, Consumer Products, Yahoo! Search
• David Pann, Vice President of Search Advertising, Yahoo!

According to the pamphletes we’ve been handed, Yahoo will be focusing on a three main issues in search today:

• “Find Things Faster”
• “Explore What Matters”
• “Get Things Done”

Find our live notes below (paraphrased):

Shashi Seth – Senior Vice President of Search Products - (joined about 3 weeks ago): I came for a few reasons, first I wanted to be a part of the team that changes search. Also the quality of talent and leadership. Today we’re going to talk about the talent we’ve assembled with the Yahoo Labs team. We’re also going to talk about the products we’ve built in the past but maybe haven’t shared. And finally search advertising.

I wanted to clear out some misconceptions. One is that with the Microsoft Yahoo deal, Yahoo may not be in the game of search. We are.

Still out, but we’re still going.

Yahoo has been in search, is in search, and will continue to be in the future. We’ll continue to drive innovation. It’s our stake in the ground. You’ll see some of this today.

Search has been largely the same for the past 10 years. It’s mostly the same for the user. With the Microsoft deal we can get the backend from them and innovate on top of it. It’s nice not having to focus on the backend. It frees us up. I think search is headed for innovation on the frontend side. And we started that journey about a year and a half to two years ago. But there still is a lot of work we need to do for this transition (assuming it’s approved).

Over the past 48 hours, and perhaps longer, it appears that TechCrunch is being blocked inside China. We’ve confirmed this with contacts and tipsters inside China who can no longer access our site, as well as through Web tools such as WebsitePulse and Just Ping which pings sites from inside China’s Great Firewall.

Both of those services indicate that, at least in Shanghai, readers cannot connect to TechCrunch. Chinese readers have reported problems accessing the site in the past as well.

If you are located in China and you can read this, please let us know in comments.

We are not really sure why we are being blocked. Recently, we’ve covered Google’s decision to to perhaps stop doing business in China following a cyberattack on its servers in the country, but we don’t think that is it.

Павел Рогожин:

Статья полностью — http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/07/how-to-make-money-online-video/

In Search of Profits

Ten years ago, web companies didn’t generate much revenue.   These days, web companies are some of the most profitable around.  Online video is where the Web was ten years ago: in investment mode as video companies that are generating high revenue are not necessarily the most profitable.

Are those companies suffering low margins because they’re investing in the future or are they fundamentally lower-margin businesses?

Павел Рогожин:

Совершенно случайным образом я влился в состав экспертов. Как и все кто приближаются к теме стартапов, через некоторое время устают участвовать в «пробных заездах» на elevator pitch. Слишком много однообразных ошибок совершают презентующие забывая о базовых вещах:

— сложно адкеватно воспринимать проект на seed-стадии с потребностью в 8 млн. р. при NPV > 90 млрд. р. в трехлетнем периоде. Будьте более честными, в первую очередь с самим собой.

— У вас рекламная бизнес-модель? Ответьте на вопрос про traffic acquisition cost. Иначе это очень похоже на то о чем любит говорить Павел Черкашин: «Продавать за 0.95 покупая за 1».

— Вам не нужны деньги? Вы выстрелите сами собой? А что тогда вы здесь делаете???

— Конкуренты? Порталы слишком инертны чтобы повторить нашу модель. Вы правда так думаете? ;)

— Вы правда хотите продавать все сами? А умеете?

Думаю стоит начать публиковать доклады коллег по цеху о самых распространенных ошибках в стартапах. Начнем с презентации Пети Диденко на этой встрече. Читайте следующий пост.

Открыта регистрация на первую встречу сообщества в новом году. Добавлена возможность покупки билетов он-лайн.

Приглашенные эксперты:

Петр Диденко (Microsoft)

Игорь Манн (Издательство «Манн, Иванов и Фербер»).

Место проведения встречи: Институт МИРБИС, ул. Марксистская 34, корп. 7, этаж 7. (Смотреть на Яндекс.Картах, воспользуйтесь просмотром «Панорам улиц»)

Павел Рогожин:

К вопросу о перспективах дисплейной рекламы в Рунете.

The Russian online display advertising market was up 10% year-on-year to 8.3 billion Rubles ($261 million) in 2009. The car manufacturers and dealers accounted for 30% of the market spending last year, ahead of telecoms operators with 12%, according to AdWatch/Isobar. The Russian contextual advertising market was up 13% year-on-year to 9.61 billion Rubles ($302 million) in 2009. The Internet advertising market in Russia was the only advertising market segment in Russia that increased in 2009.

The leading online display advertisers in Russia included Ford Motors, Honda, MTS, Megafon, and Peugeot Citroen.

Quintura

Павел Рогожин:

Самое правильное в таком обещании создать порог входа на уже готовой системе оценке рисков — кредитах. Молодцы, не то слово.

Другой вопрос что в US уже все хорошо поняли сколько именно будет стоит кредит, и для увеличения рынка для «сбыта» своего предложения вводят StartUp Visa.

При всей поверхностной позитивной оценке, все не так просто. У нас правда и того нет...

Earlier this week we told you how New York Times op-ed contributor and author Thomas Friedman urged President Obama to take steps to help foster a new age of innovation and entrepreneurship. Well it seems that Obama may have received that message, as Wednesday night during his State of the Union address to Congress the president proposed a bill to help small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Perhaps Obama listened to Friedman, or maybe he saw the frenzied excitement that grows around new innovations like the iPad — either way, the president seems to have taken the first baby steps toward a more entrepreneurial culture in America.

In the first quarter of a speech that lasted nearly seventy minutes — due in no small part part to the customary and, at times, comically frequent applause breaks — Obama leveled his focus on small businesses, calling for a $30 billion bill to help them attain credit from banks.

One idea that Obama did not mention which could bolster the nation's innovative spirit is the so-called «startup visa» which could bring foreign entrepreneurs to the U.S. and create jobs — a movement we wrote about earlier this month.

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Павел Рогожин:

Неплохой, хоть и не новый ход. Да, понятно мы увеличиваем Install base продукта, получаем большее количество фидбеков. Но ведь ставка взята не с потолка? Интересно как они ее высчитали?

Google has just launched a new program aimed at improving security for its new web browser, Google Chrome. Developers who find a bug in either Chrome or Chromium, the open source codebase used as the testing grounds for Chrome, will receive anywhere from $500 to $1337 for reporting the issue. The amount of the reward will vary depending on the severity of the security hole discovered, says Google. Those bugs deemed «particularly severe or particularly clever» will receive the higher amount.

The concept for an incentive program is not new, as Google notes in their blog post. It's based on a similar venture created by the folks at Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser. Like Mozilla, Google's rewards also start at $500 for most issues. The payment of $1337, the number a nod to the geeky internet slang called «leet speak,» will be reserved only for critical bugs that would have had a major impact if left unpatched.

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