Back in December 2006 I wrote about TiVo not keeping up in the quest to be the provider of the “sofa web.”
Om Malik at GigaOM discusses the new game consoles and the contribution they might make to Internet browsing. He refers to it as the “sofa web.”
It was announced that TiVo and Amazon Team Up - NYTimes.com. This is a positive step towards TiVo becoming part of the sofa web. I can’t wait to see more deals.
How likely is this to be successful? More evidence that the bubble is back.
Google has been getting very aggressive with some of their recent deals. Their willingness to throw some money around to partners and to do one-off deals is increasing (Dell, AOL, Fox Interactive/MySpace, and the Associated Press come to mind).
I ran across this on ZDnet. It sums up nicely why they’re beginning to do this.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, at last months Q2 earnings conference call, reconfirmed:
we are in the search business, so we need all of the information. We want to partner with people to get information so our search end users can see it.
We’re also in the advertising business, and we’d like to provide advertising services to people who have their own proprietary content. So depending on where we are in that spectrum, we either do an advertising deal or a content deal or a hybrid deal.
But ultimately our goal at Google is to have the strongest advertising network and all the world’s information, that’s part of our mission.
Google has finally realized that they’re going to have to share the wealth to acheive their vision. This is good news for those with valuable content. So hold out for the money.
It’s kind of ironic that on a day when the blogosphere is beating up Businessweek for bad reporting, a reputable blog is also doing some bad reporting. Kudos to the folks setting BusinessWeek straight and kudos to Seth Finkelstein for setting Consumerist straight.
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Is Google Paying Syndication Fees For Google News?
Hmmm, very interesting. How will this impact Google’s ability to continue to get free content from non-news partners?
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