Ken McCarthy:

Bio

Ken McCarthy organized and sponsored the first conference ever held on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. His company Amacord Inc., formerly E-Media, was one of the first Internet-based businesses in the world.
In addition to working with small and mid-sized business clients since 1993, McCarthy was a consultant to NEC's Biglobe, the largest online service in Japan, from 1996 to 2001. His book The Internet Business Manual was the first book on web entrepreneurship published in that country. He is also credited by Hotwired magazine with being one of the people responsible for the development and popularization of the banner ad, one of the key underpinnings of commercial Internet publishing.
A graduate of Princeton University, McCarthy came to the Internet industry with a varied background which included technical consulting for two of New York's top investment banks, lecturing on educational psychology at MIT, Columbia, and NYU, and founding and operating a number of small businesses, including one that helped produce an Academy Award winning documentary.

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August 30, 2006

We did it! - Winning the ICANN campaign

On August 17, just one letter was posted in opposition to ICANN's proposed changes to the domain name system.

The day before the public comments closed, August 27, forty-two letters in opposition were posted.

One the final day, starting from a standing start at 9 AM, we - and by "we" I mean readers of the Ken McCarthy blog - posted twelve full pages with sixty-two letters per page in opposition. That's 744 letters - almost twenty times the previous day.

Here's how we did it...

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August 30, 2006 in Consumer protection | Permalink | Comments (21)

August 28, 2006

Domain name madness

Domain name madness...

Some people worry about the power of Google.

There's only one force on the Internet that I worry about and that's...

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August 28, 2006 in Consumer protection | Permalink | Comments (41)

August 20, 2006

Search insights from the AOL data dump

A few weeks ago, AOL released the "anonymous" record of searches made between March and May of this year by 650,000 of its customers.

I put "anonymous" in quotes because it's possible to identify some individuals by analyzing their search patterns. Big scandal, so the data was pulled from public view, but before it was...

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August 20, 2006 in Marketing news | Permalink | Comments (21)