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This morning I received another email asking my what my URL was for my MySpace account.  Short answer, I have a MySpace account.  I just choose not to use it. Billjackson.org existed before the MySpace tsunami hit the Internet and other sites, like windows live spaces decided to try and get in on some of the action.  Besides, billjackson.org is so much easier to remember than http://www.myspace.com/your_name_here_so_others_can_interact_with_you/.  “Well, you could always direct billjackson.org to your myspace account.”  Yes I could, I have that knowledge, ability, and technical prowess.  I just refuse to.

There is beauty in simplicity.  Clean looks, no advertising, easy to remember URL, twenty thousand hits a month?  I can post any audio or video I want without it being blocked.  In a nut shell, I have always tried to do things differently than others.  I have always tried to do things better then others.  Sometimes I succeed; sometimes I fail.  You can never say that I am boring you lack creativity.  You can never say that I fit the mold.  You can never say that I am just like everybody else. 

Visit if you want, but ther is nothing there but a picture of me with Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special and Van Zant.

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Google Co-op will let people use Google’s search platform to create search engines focused on the content that the subscriber chooses. 

The new search engine service can be quickly customized by choosing keywords and a list of sites the publisher wants included in the search index. These can be the only sites searched, or simply the ones with the highest priority. Alternately, users can exclude sites from the search index.  Custom colors, and Adsense Revenue are just a few of the more detailed features of note.

 

If you have worked in the radio industry, you know that dMarc aquiring Scott Studios and Computer Concepts was a pretty big deal back in 2004.  It didn’t surprise me then and today’s announcement doesn’t surprise me either.  Google has aquired dMarc, owner of thae Scott Studios automation system software.

Upon the announcement, a co-worker asked me what that would mean to the Scott Studios software running at radio stations and would it make it easier to find songs on those computers?  It was all I could do not to bust out laughing.

This is about advertising revenue.  Advertising is what Google is all about.  I said in a Red Sneaker Diaries episode back in 1996 that some big software company was going to become a part of the radio consolidation game.  I wrongly predicted that Microsoft would buy one of the large broadcasting companies.  Turns out that Google is purchaing the company that makes the software that runs four thousand plus of those stations.  The kicker is, dMarc has a software plugin that allows available commercial inventory to be filled via the web.  Here in lies the google hook.

How long until dMarc as a pluging for other radio station automation software packages?  Companies will think long and hard about this one.  A huge company is out there selling their inventory for them, with no sales person commissions to pay?  And only DJ’s thought they had to fear losing their jobs. 

So, now that google has made this aquisition, Microsoft is pounding away at a new search engine called “live” and some other little tricks to go after a new revenue stream.  Microsoft calls it adCenter.  Google’s is named, AdSense.  This is what Microsoft does. They look around for realy good ideas, barrow from those ideas, and make them pretty darn good.

Now that google has gotten into radio, how long until Microsoft does so?