Thanks to a reader at Kilpatrick Stockton for sending me this article from SeattlePi.com on the re-branding of AvenueA to AQuantive, Inc. It sounds like a somewhat typical experience for a company going through a name-change but I disagree with two statements in the article. The first is the comment that dictionary words are
Probably because Google is announcing a lot of new things at once (buying Pyra, content-targeted advertising, world domination, etc.), the usual Google buzz has turned into palpable Fear and Loathing of Google. I apparently added a little momentum to the debate via Dave, with my comments regarding Googles “free ride” by selling paid advertising.
Metal wire was invented in approximately 400 AD. Barbed wire was invented in the 1870’s. Plaintiff began selling barbed wire in 1889. It began coloring the top wire strand red in 1920 (and received a trademark registration for red top wire fencing in 1921). Its KING RANCH wire is pictured above. Defendants began selling green
I’m sure that blurb will make it to the back of the paperback edition of “Pattern Recognition,” the new novel by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer. The main character is a marketing consultant allergic to trademarks. Really.
The ABANet article on blawgs (with my picture) hit the web yesterday while I was still clearing customs in Houston. Hopefully readers who checked out the site enjoyed the nice picture of the parrot. I am honored to be mentioned in the same article as some of my favorite blogs, SCOTUS, How Appealing and Bag
Today’s Wall Street Journal’s lead article discusses the cat-and-mouse game between Google and those who seek to “game” Google in order to boost their rankings. Of interest is the discussion of the lawsuit brought by SearchKing against Google regarding Google’s tweaking of its search algorithm (and the resulting bad effects on SearchKing’s methods). In that