All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Internet

Google's Orkut, a complete failure in the States, has experienced tremendous success in Brazil and in some Asian countries, as has the social shopping sites like OSOYU and ShopStyle in the UK.  Facebook and MySpace can create an international "network effect" as well, but, to do so, they will have...

Social networks, and the contribution of user-generated content and interaction that is at the heart of Web 2.0, will morph over the years as it becomes more embedded into the Web.  Vertical networks will become more prominent, replacing the kaleidescope that MySpace and Facebook often portray. ...

Facebook will follow Myspace and launch a German version of its service, some time in the first half of 2008. While Facebook has faced criticism in the USA for the way it introduced a new model of targeted advertising (Facebook Beacon), the issue of monetizing the user behavior of its...

This morning, Google indexed a filing from December 17th from Level 3 Communications who filed a patent infringement suit against Limelight Networks (Case number 2:2007cv00589) in the District Court of Virgina. I have not been able to get a copy of the filing as of yet but I was able to speak to Level...

Hot on the heels of EdgeCast announcing it had raised $6 million dollars, content delivery provider CDNetworks announced late yesterday that it had raised $96.5 million in private placement. For CDNetworks, this funding now gives them the ability to make a serious push in the U.S. market for content...

Is eBay really that bad or is this just another spin of the media? It's more spin that reality.

Amazon is aggressively courting eBay's top tier of PowerSellers, and doing this quite successfully. But not all PowerSellers are created equally, so we need to look more closely at what's happening. 

As we near the end of 2007, I've seen a few reports estimating the CDN space to have been anywhere between $800 million and $1.4 billion for the year. The reports I have seen do not break out what specific "CDN" products they are talking to and how those numbers were calculated. So with that in mind,...

This morning, I had about half a dozen e-mails from analysts asking about AT&T and their CDN business. Yesterday, at AT&T's analyst day they announced that they will grow their streaming and caching services by 6x and said they were going to increase their CDN capabilities. Because of this,...

Consumers, marketers and social networks will continue to rethink and evolve the notion of electronic connections. Advertising and marketing dollars will continue to move online to take advantage of electronically enabled relationships.