Steve Poland
Steve Poland is the founder and web strategy consultant for Vested Ventures, a firm specializing in website consulting, internet marketing, and high-end custom web development.
Steve has been actively involved with the web for nearly 10 years. Over the years, his working titles have included web designer, web programmer, project manager, strategist, internet marketer, salesman, and entrepreneur. He has been involved with the development of hundreds of custom websites, custom web applications, and e-commerce websites for a range of clients - start-ups to Fortune 50. The past few years has found him very active in providing internet marketing strategy for an array of industries, as well as detailing technical specifications for custom high-end web programming projects.
Rumors have surfaced that Google is in talks to purchase YouTube for an estimated $1.6 billion. Google’s own video site, Google Video, ranks a distant third in the ‘online video’ segment (MySpace Video is #2), with YouTube dominating the top position. YouTube streams 100 million videos per day — everyone would love that kind of traffic and eyeballs; the advertising revenues that could someday explode from that are incredible. But everyone is wondering how Google… Continue Reading