Comments on: Media Futures, Part 5/5: ARBITRAGE: II. Crisis http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/ Transparent Bundles- from Wall Street to the Web Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Ed Batista http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-81 Ed Batista Thu, 26 May 2005 17:04:22 +0000 http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-81 <strong>Rocket Science</strong> One of the beautiful (and scary) things about the web is how many incredibly smart people you run into out there, and Seth Goldstein of Majestic Research is razor-sharp. Rocket Science

One of the beautiful (and scary) things about the web is how many incredibly smart people you run into out there, and Seth Goldstein of Majestic Research is razor-sharp.

]]> By: fred http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-77 fred Tue, 24 May 2005 13:02:04 +0000 http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-77 i wonder if the most anti-competitive part of google's business is their near dominance of the pool of text ads. i know that overture is also a supplier of them, but it seems like google controls like 75-80% of the supply of them. i wonder if the most anti-competitive part of google’s business is their near dominance of the pool of text ads. i know that overture is also a supplier of them, but it seems like google controls like 75-80% of the supply of them.

]]> By: Oliver Thylmann's Blog http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-80 Oliver Thylmann's Blog Tue, 17 May 2005 13:15:47 +0000 http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-80 <strong>Coming Advertising Crsis</strong> Were are we moving with advertising, spy ware, browser bars, accelerators, adsense and more? Some good questions raised here: TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: Media Futures, Part 5/5: ARBITRAGE: II. Crisis. And I think Google AdWords/AdSense is a... Coming Advertising Crsis

Were are we moving with advertising, spy ware, browser bars, accelerators, adsense and more? Some good questions raised here: TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: Media Futures, Part 5/5: ARBITRAGE: II. Crisis. And I think Google AdWords/AdSense is a…

]]> By: Frank Ruscica http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-78 Frank Ruscica Tue, 17 May 2005 12:43:37 +0000 http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-78 No need to regulate Google, as disruptive biz models are coming to market. Details coming online at: http://landof.opportunitv.com/businessplan.html Short story: Opening up the ad markets will give rise to the adbitrageurs who will, via their trading, deliver the information that will, in turn, make possible a deeply liquid market in customized education and career services -- the mother of all global markets... No need to regulate Google, as disruptive biz models are coming to market. Details coming online at:

http://landof.opportunitv.com/businessplan.html

Short story: Opening up the ad markets will give rise to the adbitrageurs who will, via their trading, deliver the information that will, in turn, make possible a deeply liquid market in customized education and career services — the mother of all global markets…

]]> By: anon http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-79 anon Tue, 17 May 2005 10:42:27 +0000 http://blog.sethgoldstein.com/2005/05/17/media-futures-part-55-arbitrage-ii-crisis/#comment-79 I am enjoying your (remarkably intellectual) set of posts on this "arbitrage" formulation. I never dreamed I would have a chance to satisfy a jones for the Frankfurt school and ordinary language philosophy with the economics of search and advertising (Although, have you ever read Marcuse on advertising? That would make an interesting riff on Google and "cultural hegemony". In a sense, search engines and the way they shape our consumption of information are a distillation of some of the Frankfurt School ideas on capitalism's role in the "culture industry".) In any case, shouldn't you be able to make Google transparent (esp. in terms of the number of users, but certainly also in terms of less obvious metrics) by using panel data from comScore or NetRatings? Looking forward tothe rest of your series... I am enjoying your (remarkably intellectual) set of posts on this “arbitrage” formulation. I never dreamed I would have a chance to satisfy a jones for the Frankfurt school and ordinary language philosophy with the economics of search and advertising (Although, have you ever read Marcuse on advertising? That would make an interesting riff on Google and “cultural hegemony”. In a sense, search engines and the way they shape our consumption of information are a distillation of some of the Frankfurt School ideas on capitalism’s role in the “culture industry”.)

In any case, shouldn’t you be able to make Google transparent (esp. in terms of the number of users, but certainly also in terms of less obvious metrics) by using panel data from comScore or NetRatings?

Looking forward tothe rest of your series…

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