The morning the New York Stock Exchange hosted a panel entitled “Expert Networks: Issues and Opportunities for Public Companies”. The session was moderated by Keith Ackerman, who is Global Head of Next Generation Research at Thomson Financial. On the panel were Howard Dicker, Partner at Weil, Gotshal; Jonathan Glick, Director of Research Operations at the Gerson Lehrman Group; Michael Lynch, Managing Director, Global Commission Management at Merrill Lynch; and Michael Mayhew, Chairman & Co-CEO at Integrity Research. The video of the panel can be found here. Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s recent OpenSocial and Open Handset Alliance announcements have pushed the company’s market capitalization north of $225,000,000,000. But at the end of the day, Google has two more products in a portfolio of over than 70 others…of which AdWords and AdSense create the bulk of profits, with AdWords being the better of the two. This means that AdWords ads shown in search results drive Google’s earnings, but Google has organized less than 0.02% of the world’s information. Imagine what the other 99.98% is worth. Read the rest of this entry »