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  • The real reason for Google's free 411 service

    Tim O'Reilly speculated why Google is really doing a free 411 service . In short, I'm speculating that the 1-800-GOOG-411 service is designed to harvest voice data to build Google's own speech database, rather than licensing from Nuance or another player. Charlie confirmed this at the recent Google Developer...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-04-2007
  • How Microsoft can crush Google

    Dare points to this insightful, if nefarious, post on how Microsoft could crush Google in one easy step . I've long made the argument that Google is not a technology company, but rather an advertising / media company. Clearly, the distinction between technology and media is at least blurring. In fact...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-10-2007
  • More innovative advertising in a TiVO world

    Honda previously launched 5-second ads to combat the effects of Tivo . Now Fox is embracing that model , "running a 30-second television spot with just one static image in an effort to reach viewers who fast forward through ads using digital video recorders like TiVos." "Viewers fast-forwarding through...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-11-2006
  • This Apple advertisement doesn't make any sense. Touche!

    I love the new Get A Mac campaign . Very clever, and great casting. I'm willing to overlook some of the factual inaccuracies because, hey, this is advertising, right? One of the most recent ads ( mov ) doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. The ad in question is touting Boot Camp, OS X's ability to...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-19-2006
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