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Archived blogs for the week of Oct. 30, 2006

1260 - Nov. 1, 2006 - 7.24 AM EST

Google acquires Wiki service Jotspot

According to various news reports, Google has acquired Wiki site Jotspot for an undisclosed sum of money. A Wiki allows Internet users to add, remove and edit content, allowing workers or colleagues to collaborate online.

Wiki technology is best known through the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Jotspot's services targets mostly businesses, but following Google's acquisition it has dropped its subscription fees.

Even if Google focuses mainly on consumers and individual users, in a blog posting, co-founder Joe Kraus claimed that the acquisition was a natural fit.

"As we built the business over the past three years, Google consistently attracted our attention. We watched them acquire Writely, and launch Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps for Your Domain.

Posted on Businessblog™

1259 - Oct. 31, 2006 - 11.44 AM EST

A new round of financing for Spot Runner

Spot Runner, a Los Angeles-based start-up that offers a Web interface for creating and placing ads into local television programming, has received another $40 million in funding from some big-name investors.

Yesterday, Spot Runner announced its new round of financing with CBS Corp., Interpublic Group and WPP as equity investors.

Spot Runner says the money would be used to expand its push into online video, VOD (Video on Demand) and Internet Protocol Television (IpTV).

Spot Runner's new funding comes at an important time. The company helps businesses use the Internet to build and execute a media buy on local television.

For as little as $500, Spot Runner can create and deliver a targeted TV ad campaign, using a library of customizable ad templates and connections with television stations in local and regional markets.

Since CBS, Interpublic and WPP are now investors in the company, this is significant for Spot Runner. The three new investors are major players in the online/television ad market, controlling billions of dollars in advertising revenue from some of the biggest buyers in the industry.

On the ad buying side, WPP says it manages about $50 billion of clients' budgets worldwide and Interpublic Group agencies serve more than 4,000 multinational, regional and local clients around the world.

WPP plans to use Spot Runner's platform to help clients target ads across all media channels more effectively at the local level.

For Interpublic, the investment is an opportunity to add a new dimension to its local, direct response and hyper-targeted communications services.

Posted on Businessblog™

1258 - Oct. 30, 2006 - 12.31 PM EST

Is the CIA working with Google?

A CIA ex-services officer who still maintains close relationships with some Google executives says that the search and media company is in bed with the intelligence agency and the U.S. government.

Robert David Steele has also gone public on his strong suspicions about the official explanation behind the September 11 terrorists attacks.

The former CIA officer appeared on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio show and began by voicing his deep doubts about the official 9/11 story.

While Steele stopped short of saying 9/11 was a complete inside job, he agreed that the evidence points to the overwhelming complicity of the Bush administration.

“The U.S. government did not properly investigate this and there are more rocks to be turned over,” said Steele adding, “I’m absolutely certain that WTC 7 was brought down by controlled demolition and that as far as I’m concerned means that this case has not been properly investigated.”

“There’s no way that building could have come down without controlled demolition.” Steele pointed the finger of suspicion directly at the Vice President saying, “There’s no question in my own mind that Dick Cheney is the tar baby in this whole thing.”

Steele outlined the bizarre circumstances preceding the attack that would have greased the skids for bombs to be planted in the buildings.

“You do have the whole issue of the security cameras being disengaged, the bomb sniffing dogs being removed, the family ties with Bush - I mean if you smell a rotten fish there’s probably a rotten fish somewhere around.”

Steele’s biography is impressive. He was the second-ranking civilian (GS-14) in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence from 1988-1992. Steele is a former clandestine services case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.

He is the founder and president of Open Source Solutions, Inc., and is an acknowledged expert on computer and information vulnerabilities. Steele holds graduate degrees in International Relations and Public Administration from Leigh University and the University of Oklahoma. He has also earned certificates in Intelligence Policy from Harvard University and in Defense Studies from the Naval War College.

Before the 2004 election Steele advocated the re-election of George W Bush and he has been cited by numerous Republican luminaries as a credible source. His testimony is added to the chorus of other credible 9/11 whistleblowers both in and out of government and academia.

Steele raised eyebrows when he confirmed from his contacts within the CIA and Google that Google was working in tandem with “the agency,” a claim made especially volatile by the fact that Google was recently caught censoring Alex Jones’ Terror Storm and has targeted other websites for blackout in the past.

Posted on Businessblog™

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